Compare And Contrast The Boys Who Challenged Hitler And Night

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In ‘The Boys Who Challenged Hitler’ by Phillip Hoose, and ‘Night’ by Elie Wiesel, both texts express the effect of world war two, from the perspective of the Churchill Club and Elie Wiesel. This shows their experience of strength and fear. Both of these stories tell us how the characters deal with the fear that they face during a time of hardship. In the story, ‘The Boys Who Challenged Hitler”, the author suggests that no one was to be trusted. Hoose states in this text, “The enemy was 360 degrees around us at all times, Even with our parents, teachers, and classmates, we had to be careful what we said and whom we said it to.” They were afraid of the fact that they could be caught by German Soldiers and arrested for their actions, The Churchill Club was only able to rely on themselves during their time of the revolt. Likewise, in ‘Night’ the author recalls the events that occurred during his first day at the concentration camp. Wiesel recalls that when Yehiel told him that they were on the threshold of death, he thought, “I no longer was afraid, I was …show more content…

The Churchill Club thinks they need strength to take down the German Soldiers The club was going across the field to get into the German base, they could've been surrounded and needed to keep themselves together. What this meant was that they needed mental strength to overcome the fear that they felt, they had to be strong to progress. Similarly, Wiesel needed strength to get through the hardship that they were experiencing. When getting to camp, everyone was treated badly by the guards, they were forced to take off their clothes and have their hair ripped out by blunt scissors. This means that they needed strength to experience that since those were not the best conditions to stay In, The Churchill club had the strength to mess with the Germans, and trespass on their property, Wiesel needed the strength to get through the events of the concentration

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