preview

Similarities Between Night And Life Is Beautiful

Decent Essays

Introduction The novel Night and the movie “Life is Beautiful” are very similar yet so different. They both take place during post-war Holocaust time. But, despite the fact of the characters surroundings, they both have a very different outlook on the events that took place during the Holocaust. There are many different events that took place in each story even though they were set in the same place at the same time. In the novel Night and in the movie “Life is Beautiful,” there is a mood of sadness, very different relationships with the boys fathers, and different viewpoints of the Holocaust. Mood of Sadness In the novel Night, both Elie and his father experienced great sadness. For example, Elie witnessed babies being burned and people being put into the flames, which destroyed his soul (2006, Pg 34). Elie often rebuked God for what was happening in the concentration camps. However, …show more content…

Their relationship was very strained, but throughout the novel they grew closer because they did not have anyone else except each other throughout the Holocaust (2006, Pg 30). Elie’s father was a very obdurate person to come by because he cared more about other people and their faith than he did about his own family. This made it difficult for Elie to be close with his father. Elie often saw his father as an onus to his survival because he would slow him down and he constantly had to watch over him. Although Elie and his father did not have a very good relationship in Night, Joshua and Guido had a very good and strong bond throughout “Life is Beautiful”. Guido was a very sanguine person that wanted nothing more in life than to obviate his son, Joshua, from actually knowing and understanding what was happening throughout the Holocaust (2000). He saw it best to let Joshua think that it was actually a game so that he did not get scared and so he would not start to doubt his

Get Access