Comparing Night And Life Is Beautiful

In life, people go through different changes when put through difficult experiences. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel is a young Jewish boy whose family is sent to a concentration camp by Nazis. The story focuses on his experiences and trials through the camp. Elie physically becomes more dehumanized and skeletal, mentally changes his perspective on religion, and socially becomes more selfish and detached, causing him to lose many parts of his character and adding to the overall theme of loss in Night.

In his book, Night, Elie Wiesel spoke about his experience as a young Jewish boy in the Nazi concentration camps. During this turbulent time period, Elie described the horrifying events that he lived through and how that affected the relationship with his father. Throughout the book, Elie and his father’s relationship faced many obstacles. In the beginning, Elie and his father have much respect for one another and at the end of the book, that relationship became a burden and a feeling of guilt. Their relationship took a great toll on them throughout their journey in the concentration camps.

Throughout Night, the bond that Eliezer has with his father Chlomo passes through a rocky course, but eventually becomes stronger due to the isolation and ultimately the death of Chlomo. This rocky course has events that that go from being inseparable in Birkenau, to feeling as though he is a burden. In between, there are times where Elizer’s relationship is clearly falling apart and then being fixed. The camps greatly influence the father-son relationship that Elie and Chlomo have, sometimes for the better, and sometimes for worse. Originally in 1941 when the Wiesel family was living in Sighet, Eliezer took Chlomo for granted, as any child would. Little did he know that their relationship would permanently change forever.

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering” (Nietzsche). This quote, said by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, describes the desire to survive that was inside of Elie Wiesel in his story. The book describes Elie’s late teen years when he was sent to a concentration camp by the German government. In the book, he is separated from his whole family except for his old father, and both are put to work inside of the camp. As Elie suffers through the camp, his faith and his life face many tests and trials. There are many instances throughout the book when people die or when somebody loses their faith. The theme of the book Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is survival, as shown by the death of many Jews during the Holocaust, people willing to do anything to survive, and people’s faith not surviving the traumatic experiences of the concentration camps.

In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie and his father’s relationship before the concentration camps consists of little emotion shared between each other; their estranged relationship leaves no room for them to show affection towards each other. In Sighet before the Holocaust, Elie’s father engages more with the citizens of the town than with his own family. Later, when Elie and his father arrive in their first concentration camp in Birkenau, they grow closer very quickly, relying on each other to continue their fight to live with the little food and harsh treatments. When Elie and his father live their lives before the Holocaust in Sighet, his father spends most of his time tending to the needs of the community and less to the needs of his family; however, when the two of them arrive in Birkenau, their relationship rapidly changes as his father plays the role of a supportive parent and Elie the helpful son.

Most people believe that family helps build you up and make you stronger, even through tragic events; this isn’t always true. In Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, he explains the hardships he and his father, Shlomo, experienced while in concentration camps. In the book, Elie and his dad went through many tough situations together: starvation, beatings, and health issues. As more and more horrific events occurred, Eliezer's relationship with his father began to fade. As Shlomo grew weaker physically, Eliezer grew weaker emotionally; the intense trauma numbed his heart. Because of these many difficulties, Eliezer was shaped into an independent young man who no longer relied on his family but on his own strength for survival.

Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” shows the life of a father and son going through the concentration camp of World War II. Their life long journey begins from when they are taken from their home in Sighet, they experience harsh and inhuman conditions in the camps. These conditions cause Elie and his father’s relationship to change. During their time there, Elie and his father experience a reversal in roles.

Night and Life is beautiful are similar and different in many ways. They both show the views of someone during the Holocaust. Elie and Guido evolve by not thinking about their actions at the end of the stories they both think about how their actions will affect them. Elie’s conflicts are smaller than Guido’s, such as Elie only having to take care of him and sometimes his father, while Guido has to think about his whole family. Both of the stories involve the Holocaust, except Elie’s story focuses on just Elie, while Guido’s story focuses on the other characters

For many people forced into circumstances like that of the Holocaust, life can be much more self-centered and about self-preservation rather than a selfless one. In Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel, he tells his story and the impact his relationship with his father has in motivating him to carry on despite the agony, grief, and torment he experienced during the Holocaust. His father being the person that kept him sane and alive throughout those dark

When people look at two extremely different stories such as Night and Life is Beautiful, they would not expect there to be many similarities. However, these two devastating tales are more alike than suspected. Both Night and Life is Beautiful may be two accounts of the holocaust, but that does not mean that they bring the same thing to the table. They both may include a somewhat similar father-son relationship, yet they still aren’t that same. Night, a tragic memoir of Eliezer Wiesel, and Life is Beautiful, a humorous and still somewhat depressing movie of Guido and his family, have numerous similarities as well as drastic differences between them.

The novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel tells the tale of a young Elie Wiesel and his experience in the concentration camps,and his fight to stay alive . The tragic story shows the jewish people during the Holocaust and their alienation from the world. Elie’s experience changes him mentally, and all actions in taken while in the concentration were based on one thing...Survival.

Night and “Life is Beautiful” “Life is a matter of perspective. It can be amazing or wonderful, or it can be depressing and worthless” (Gray, n.d.). Stephen Gray’s (n.d.) quote gives the understanding on how each persons life can change depending on their view of it.

“A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances, instead of your circumstances having power over you” (Meyer, n.d.). These words spoken by Joyce Meyer (n.d.) depict the importance of a positive perspective in the midst of turbulent situations. Similarly, Elie Wiesel’s (2006) novel Night and the movie “Life is Beautiful” (2000), portray two stories of characters that are thrown into dangerous and torturous situations. In both stories, each individual has the opportunity to view their circumstances in a positive or negative way. Furthermore, both documentaries contained the unique element of a father / son relationship, which made an impact on how each character viewed their respective events.

In the film "Life is Beautiful," Joshua left the concentration camp almost unscathed with no real lacklash of what he somehow survived thanks to his father. Joshua never viewed the Holocost as bad, but merely a simple game that he thought he won, and he did. Joshua beat all the odds, hardly any children as young as Joshua at Achwits lived long enough to see freedom. Now, in the novel "Night," Elie saw and understood the machination occurring around him and it was something that forever changed him. Elie could not understand how a God could let anyone suffer like he did, and all the others who suffered along with him. Elie lost his way, his hope, his father, family, but most importantly he lost his faith. The Holocost for Elie was life altering, it made him the man he became, an advocate for peace and humanity, as well as a voice for those who lost there voice in the

In the movie, Life is Beautiful, and in the novel Night, maturing, finding a way to live, and loving someone past the limit, shows that identity has been found.