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Compare And Contrast Farewell To Manzanar And Night

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Imagine being forced out your home unaware of the things to come! You must leave many of your belongings behind as well as your memories. This is what Jeanne Wakatsuki and Eliezer Wiesel had to do. Both evolved through their experiences and told us their stories in the books Farewell to Manzanar and Night. We will compare and contrast the two cooks and how both characters reacted to their life changing events. In the book Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D Houston, Jeanne and her family are experiencing WWII. WWII was a war between the Axis powers and their allies. Among the Axis powers was Japan and America as alli. To make matters worse, the Wakatsuki’s were Japanese American Internees, they were Japanese living …show more content…

For example when hearing the news of their journey to the camps, Jeanne was excited rather than sorrowful and scared. Elie was worried and wearisome. As the story begins Elie is very religious and wants to get closer to his god, but as the story goes on he begins to lose faith in his god and asks him why he has deserted them. “Where is god now, how can he be present in a world with such cruelty?” Jeanne is never really exposed to god and catholicism until she moves to Manzanar. She becomes very interested in the stories and comes closer to god when she wants to be …show more content…

First of all both Jeanne and Elie are children whose family an themselve are being forced out of their home and city into faraway camps that is restricted due to a policy created by the official government that signifies their discrimination towards their culture. Both books include specific ideas or objects that symbol an important part of the book. In the book Night the “night” is used as a way to show or symbolize death and the darkness one has in the soul. For example Mrs. Schachter has her visions of fire at night meaning “hell”. Elie and his father are taken on a very long walk at night where many of the Jews die and are seen as stacked corpses. Also Elie’s father dies at night.”The days were like night and the night left the dregs of their darkness in our souls. In Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne's dream about the blonde prom queen is signifying her beauty standards, and her desire to be accepted the way she is by the people. It also symbolizes the despair she feels about being the only excluded of many clubs that her friend Radine is able to

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