Night by Elie Wisel and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck are both books that have differences and similarities in the relationships of their main characters. These characters are Elie and his father, which are two Jews trapped in a concentration camp for the book Night. The other book Of Mice and Men includes two other characters, who are Lennie and George. These two characters have very close friendship, and take care of each other. These two relationships differ and coincide, in how they treat each other, and in how they care for one another even when they don’t have to. The relationships of the characters in both books are both fairly close, but still face many hardships along the way.
Why must humans be either inherently good or inherently evil? The narrative Night by Elie Wiesel illustrates humanity in one of the darkest periods of history, to abandon humanity to survive vs keeping it from spiraling down into hopelessness. As Eliezer struggles to survive against starvation and abuse, he also grapples with the destruction of his faith in God’s justice and battles with the darker sides of himself.Throughout the novel, Eliezer feels a conflict between protecting his father who poses as a burden and giving himself the best chance of survival. The narrative also brings up a very important question, ‘’Are humans inherently good or evil?’’ How can we ever compare the kindness of the French girl who healed Eliezer 's wounds to the SS officers that had beaten him cruelly? We can not, and not just for that reason alone. Are humans born inherently good and became soiled by the filth and corrupt of the world, conditioning them to forget their morals and turn against each-other? Or are humans born inherently evil judging by their capability to commit heinous crimes and there is no goodness in this world, just people who are far less evil than others? In my opinion, humans are born neither inherently good or evil. It’s not as if Eliezer was born with a moral compass, he was raised with high morals and to serve God (and abandoning him when he feels God is cruel to let them suffer). His experience in the camps allows him to explore the darker concepts in humanity
The comparisons and contrasts between The Hiding Place and Night. Both books were written with struggles, tenderness, agony, and fear in mind. Of these two books only one comes out and realizes that what they have gone through was not a cruse but some what a blessing from God, Himself. The struggles both face is more than just man against man but it is also a struggle within to find who they truly are and whom they truly believe in. Both main characters, Eli and Corrie, faced something they never knew they could face but only one comes out stronger than the other.
Book Review Night by Elie Wiesel was one of the best books I have ever read. Night is the story about Elie’s horrible time spent in Auschwitz and Buna the death camps. This story impacted me the most because all of this is real. Elie’s mother and sister were murdered as soon as they arrived. The story goes on telling his unimaginable experiences with his father in 1944 during the Holocaust.
The World We Lived In An event occurred over half a century ago that took nearly six million innocent lives had left us with all kinds of story about it. Among those are Night by Elie Wiesel and Schindler’s List by Steven Spielberg. These two pieces of literatures may be similar, yet different in many ways. For instance, the Holocaust. It is one recognizable way that shows the similarity between the movie and the book. However, they are very different because one is about a person saving, or rather buying, 1200 lives and the other is many lives that were saved by a union, Schindler’s List and Night, respectively. Which can indicate the fact that Jewish were treated as less than human when they were bought like some objects. Other factors include
Battle Against Evil Night by Elie Wiesel and "Hangman" by Maurice Ogden both make strong points of view towards the battle between mankind and evil. Wiesel 's personal experiences give the reader very specific and down to the point accounts of the Holocaust. In contrast, Ogden musical poem gives the reader a very indistinguishable idea of what is taking place. One must examine rhyme over and over to be given the full impact of the poem. The battle against evil may be compared on the basis of their narration, their subject, their language usage, and their tone and mood.
Tim O’Brien’s “How to tell a True War Story” According to the author Tim O’Brien, people tend to readily accept the ‘facts’ presented of what happened during a war. People do not consider the existence of fallacies regarding the actual stories of what happens in wars, few consider that the ‘facts’ of an incident often change through people’s words. The film ‘Saving the Private Ryan’ by Steven Spielberg features both facts and seemingness part of the war story. Since it is so difficult to fully describe a war using human language, Spielberg ended up revising his stories to make sense out of it. Spielberg included parts that did not occur or exclude parts that did occur in order to make their stories seem more credible. According
Introduction to Literature A Similar Journey February 2011 There are many people who travel a distance in life to find the path they should take or to remember the path they once took. In the poem “The Path Not Taken,” by Robert Frost and the short story "I Used to Live Here Once" by Jean Rhys there are many similarities and differences. The authors’ use of describing a path helps them personify life’s journeys and self-reflection.
Child abuse is very similar to the book Night by Elie Wiesel. There is one main topic that sticks out when reading child abuse articles and Night. Both topics have delt with a certain pain. Elie Wiezel and child abuse victims have suffered, starved, and are mainly frightened of their surroundings. Not only did they deal with emotional abuse, but also physical abuse. The Jewish children in Night have been abused by the leaders of the camp and were forced to do work or else get punished. When it comes to Child abuse, the children also get punished, whipped, and punched like Elie and his father did. Both topics dealt with verbal abuse too. Many Jews in Night have been threatened and constantly picked on by the concentration camp leaders for being
In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, he tells the dark story of his time during the Holocaust as a Jew. Eliezer, a fifteen year old boy who narrates the book, devotes his time and attention to his father, Chlomo, as much as possible. His father was a highly respected man by the majority of the Jewish community in Sighet. Eliezer and his father were almost inseparable throughout their journey in the camps. Despite being father and son, they had many differences.
In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel there are many examples of how indifference can affect individuals and society. The novel is an autobiography of Elie Wiesel’s experience throughout World War 2. At the beginning of the story indifference is seen negatively affecting the Jewish and Elie’s friend Moishe. Moishe is a foreign Jew who was evacuated from Sighet and taken into Polish territory controlled by the Gestapos. There Moishe sees many horrific sights happen to the Jews, including: Jewish being forced to dig their own graves, which they got shot in and young Jewish infants being used as target practice for machine guns. Somehow Moishe manages to escape the terrible situation and returns to Sighet with a wounded leg to warn the Jews. Though when he tries to share his horrific experience, he is ignored by the Jews. “He spoke of what he had seen. But people not only refuse to believe his tales, they refused to listen.” This indifference by the Jews caused Moishe to feel depressed as he thought no one cared for what he had to say. While it made the Jewish put themselves into the danger of concentration camps which they could’ve escaped, if only
In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel there is also an example of indifference. This example is given from the perspective of a Jew who was kept prisoner by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Wiesel was a Jewish boy of about 15 who lived in Transylvania. He accounts all of the abhorrent experiences in the camps that he has been kept in, including all of the war planes flying overhead. These planes belonged to the countries that were supposed to be against the imprisonment of the Jews, these were the countries who could have done something to save them, to end their suffering. However, these countries didn’t do anything to free them, instead they had “other business elsewhere” according to the novel. In reality, these countries were being indifferent,
written through opposite perspectives, one neglects to be chronological, and the setting takes place nearly forty years apart. After a second read, however, it was easy to notice a distant
Comparing short stories- lamb to the slaughter and the speckled band ==================================================================== Lamb to the Slaughter' was written by Roald Dahl in 1954 shortly after the Second World War. Roald Dahl is famous for writing children's stories, like Charlie and the chocolate factory and James and the Giant Peach. Roald Dahl also writes stories for adults. Lamb to the slaughter is a fine example of an adult murder mystery story. Lamb to the slaughter is about a housewife waiting for her husband to come. When he does return home, he gives her bad news. Dazed by this news, she goes to the freezer to cook lamb for their supper but without warning strikes her husband over the head with it. She It is clear that she did not plan to murder her husband - she struck him with a moment of rage. We wouldn't expect Mary Maloney to kill her husband, as it appears that she loves him and seems a calm person. Mary Maloney was successful with this murder. She got away with it clean and easily disposed of the evidence. Mary Maloney's motives for killing her husband was that it appears her husband is going to leave her but Dahl does not make it clear what the bad news
Comparison of Three First World War Poems The three poems that I will be studying in this essay are “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, “Comrades: An Episode” by Robert Nichols and “Who’s For The Game?” by Jessie Pope. These poems are about the First World War and two of them seem to have a negative attitude criticising and downgrading the so-called spectacular experience of the First World War. In “Dulce Et Decorum Est” Wilfred Owen seems to mention good aspects of the War but compares them to low-class tragic events. In “Comrades: An Episode” Robert Nichols describes the event of a soldier being badly injured and eventually dying. It describes what the corporals and soldiers did and how In the second poem, “Comrades: An Episode” the same picture comes to mind by using different techniques. The poem is written in the style of a story, which gives the writer more opportunity to include descriptions and details. In this poem the narrator is the leader of a group of men and he mentions names and, as he knows his men so well, he can