Similarities between 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas' and 'Night'

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Two Faces of Evil The Boy in Striped Pajamas is about a young boy, named Bruno, who discovers the horrors of the Nazis, but denies it because he respects Germany as his own country and he respects his father. Night is about Elie Wiesel’s adventure through the concentration camps. Wiesel is a jew who was sent to Auschwitz and he and his family got separated, but his dad stayed at his side. Six months before Wiesel was liberated, his dad died and was carted off. Both of these stories are alike. Night and The Boy in Striped Pajamas both have main characters who don’t know anything about the real Germans, they are both rebellious, and they leave a lasting impact upon themselves or their family. Bruno is an eight year old boy who is the son of a Nazi general who runs a concentration camp; this puts his knowledge on the bias side, as he is taught that the Germans are the best. But he finds out through his experience of witnessing Pavel spill a glass of wine and then getting dragged away and brutally. Wiesel however is a young jewish boy who did not know of the horrors that the Nazis brought down upon the jews. When the Germans occupied Wiesel's town, they were nice and compassionate, which lead the citizens to believe that the Germans would not do anything to harm them. While in the concentration camps, Wiesel lost his faith and realized what the world could come to; therefore, he matured extremely quickly. At the end of The Boy in Striped Pajamas, Bruno gets gassed because of one of the gas chambers his father ran. This caused great regret in his father as he now knows that he is responsible for all the jews and his son! At the end of Night, Wiesel looks at himself in the mirror and recalls all of what he went through and the decisions he made and what actions he took, and he thinks that he was such a different person, that survival had changed him, he never even cried

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