Comparative Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel

Night and Schindler’s list are two despairing stories. Night is a true story about the Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel. Elie is captured and put into a concentration camp at age 15. Him and his father get separated from his sisters and his mother. During this time of Elie’s life, he his tested in his faith in God. As the sad story goes on Elie struggles with his faith and keeping his father alive. Schindler’s List is a true story of a german who saved 1,200 Jews. A man who was selfish and later on sacrificed all his money to save Jews. These heartbreaking narratives show the remembrance of these Holocaust survivors and how their values in life and sacrifices involve faith. The symbols in these stories wrap it all up as the Holocaust comes to and end.

At the beginning of the book, Elies value was to become a rabbi, to have a relationship with God. As For Schindler's values in the beginning were to have a good business, woman, and especially money. As both stories go on the values change dramatically. In Night, it goes from becoming a rabbi to survival. In Schindler's List it goes from owning lots of money, to helping Jews survive. Elie and Schindler made changes in their values with a step of faith. Even though Elie was struggling with faith throughout the book some part of him still had faith that he was going to make it to the end.

This was a symbol that connected to the chimneys with the human ash in the book of Night. In Night, another symbol was the Star of David. Jews have to wear the Star of David to be clearly identified. Another symbol in the film that literally stood out was the little girl with the red coat. The film was published in black and white so the producer made that distinct. The symbols wrapped up the film and the movie all together. Symbols at the beginning of the movie gave us suspence, getting us to ask ourselves, “what happened