Night and Life is Beautiful Comparison/Contrast Paragraph In the film Life is Beautiful, directed by Roberto Benigni, and the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, silence plays both a literal and symbolic role. In the book Wiesel describes how the oppressive forces of the Nazi regime silenced the Jewish prisoners. He also shows the symbolic silence they experienced from feeling abandoned by the rest of the world and their God, “Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live” (Wiesel 34). Elie recognizes that God fails to respond to their faith, and in a sense abandons them. On Yom Kippur, Elie decides not to fast as a symbol of rebellion against God’s silence.
“For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?” Section 3 hile the prisoners enter Birkenau and begin to realize the horrors that surround W them, Elie begins to lose his unconditional faith to God. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.
He eventually got so fed up with this that he died his hair purple “I just wanted everyone to call me something else” (316). This idea did not pan out the way that he wanted it too and everyone began to call him “The Purple Flee”. Finally, he had enough with the bullying all together and decided to skip town, to get away from everything that was bothering him. Arturo finds himself at the town church and befriends the church custodian named Johann. At first Arturo did not know what to think of Johann “Right then I started worrying about being locked up in a empty church with the old guy” (315).
Couldn’t he let his own people stand up for themselves rather than being scared and not knowing what to do? Furthermore one Jewish prisoner from the concentration camps during holocaust had said, “If there is a god, he will have to beg for forgiveness!” this shows that many Jews were angry at god as he let his own people suffer without food for many days, being called a disease and being treated as a number rather than human so they stopped believing him. Other people would disagree with the statement because god was testing people’s faith as the bible says, “Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trail, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which god has promised to those who love him.” This shows that people who are patient, god will save and protect them in whatever situation they are but they have to maintain their faith in him. If they had maintained their patients and faith then they will be rewarded as god has promised them! Maybe during Holocaust most people had lost their beliefs on god and started blaming him, so god might have stopped his wish of saving them since they had no faith him.
Night a modern day Book of Job In Night, the author Eli Wiesel shares his most personal memories of the Holocaust. Where he experienced directly and during which he lost all of his family and many friends. The occurrence of incomparable evil perpetrated by the Germans against the Jews ruined Eli’s hopefulness and his belief in the natural goodness of human beings. Although he could have held on to that view throughout the remainder of his life, Night ultimately shows how Wiesel was eventually able to restore hope and optimism and belief in others and to live with the enormous burden of pain that he carries. Many of the memoirs of the Holocaust such as have this same tone throughout them.
Although O’Brien is unclear about whether or not he actually threw a grenade and killed a man outside My Khe, his memory of the man’s corpse is strong and recurring, symbolizing humanity’s guilt over war’s horrible acts. Norman was right on the side of him when he died, after about a couple of years passed by after the war he was in Kiowa home town he started crying because he didn’t do anything to try to save him. In Fallen Angels Richie see’s how almost his whole team died he and Peewee were the only ones that survived, which emphasizes the theme of youth and innocence. In calling the novel Fallen Angels, the author implies that the soldiers’ youth and innocence are more important than any of their other aspects, such as their religion, ethnicity, class, or race. They wanted them to know what war is really like and wants to help them understand what is experienced.
"Where is he? He is hanging here on the gallows" It’s this horrendous moment in which his perceptions of his God change, someone whom was once grater than man kind and all things was now simply no better than man for if he were he wouldn’t be allowing these terrifyingly sad things to happen. Wisell unknowingly signifies the diminishing of his faith through pipel. Pipel’s painful and slow death is much the same as his perception of God in which die with him. After this Ellie doesn’t show any gratitude or respect to his god, this is clearly evident in Yom Kippur.
Over the period of years that would be known as the Holocaust in which the Nazis persecuted and killed the Jews trying to annihilate them from the face of the earth, the Jews took to fleeing the country and hiding whenever possible. While most of the Jews stayed in German occupied territory for reasons such as they just couldn’t get out of the country, to them thinking it wasn’t as brutal as it actually was or that it wouldn’t last as long as it did, the Jews that stayed had to hide whenever possible to avoid being executed and/or placed in ghettos and concentration camps. The Jews have a lot of non-Jews to thank by means of their being able to hide out; fore it was illegal for any non-Jew to harbor a Jew. They took to hiding in attics and
After Blockalteste told Elie that he is in a concentration camp, he shouldn’t care about anyone else except himself even his old father. Elie began to thinks about what Blockaltest had told him, “Too late to save your old father----You could have two ration of bread, two rations of soup----“(111). When the SS officer was beating his father in front of Elie. Normally human been would protect his father getting hurt, but he chose to do nothing and just watched his old father getting whipped, because he was afraid to get hurt. Next morning when Elie found out his father got took away, he didn't weep anymore.
Even though he witnessed many horrible things, he could not believe in his Father’s true work. He died because he was not aware of what was happening in the concentration camps. (Boyne, page 213) it states, “He assumed that it had something to do with keeping the rain out and stopping people from catching colds.” This shows that Bruno had no idea that he was taken to a gas chamber. Standing in the big room, in between skinny, shaved head men, he was more concerned on catching cold than the vision in front of him. Another example of how Bruno was avoiding thinking about what was happening around him was when he said, “I expect we’ll have to wait here till it eases off and then I’ll get to go home” (Boyne, page 212).