Compare And Contrast Diary Of Anne Frank And Elie Wiesel

The play version of The Diary of Anne Frank tells a story about a 13 year old Jewish girl during the Holocaust. In this play, Anne struggles with adjusting to living in the attic with her “family” while hiding form the Green Police. While the play continues to be read over and over again, a new book Night has stood out explaining Elie, the main character, in his journey during the Holocaust. In this book, the readers find out Elie is taken away from his family, all but his father, and sent to go work in many concentration camps. Although, Elie Wiesel and Anne Frank provides different settings to describe their experiences during the Holocaust, both are sent to an concentration camp at one point in both texts, and both are told in flashbacks.

In the play, the beginning setting is in a Secret Annex with wedding white blankets covering the appliances. The crowd gathering around the stage find a mournful Mr. Frank standing in the annex after he returned from the concentration camps in 1945. On the other hand, the book, Night, begins with Elie and his family at their home, in Siget, and then his father was called to a meeting that was about the Nazi’s coming shortly. The family then gets sent to the ghetto right before they get forced to go on the cattle cars to the concentration camps. Despite their differences, both documents use the setting to build the reader's attention and interests. The play’s beginning setting creates a sense of thrill while, the book’s beginning setting creates a sense of affection and