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Differences And Similarities Between Elie Wiesel And Salmans

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I chose the prompt question “how do Wiesel and Speiglmen write about their Jewish experience?”. This is referring to Eli Weisel’s book “Night” and Art Speiglmans book ‘Muas”. These books obviously have something in common, they both are about first hand experiences of holocaust survivors. What makes these books different is who is surviving, one is the author, and the other survivor is the author's father. Personally, I believe that Wiesel's experience is more compelling of a holocaust survivor compared to Art’s. Now i'm not saying that Speigleman’s experience wasn't disturbing or traumatic, I believe his story was just as agonizing, but in a different way, in view of the fact that Weisel’s book is about his personal undergoing of the holocaust, how he lived through torment and abuse. While on the other hand Speilfmans story was about how he delt with his fathers torture, and how that led him to have some difficulties in his life. In this essay I'm going to compare and contrast both author's personal experiences that are portrayed throughout the book. …show more content…

What happened to him that was traumatic? That's a loaded question with a whole lot of answers. We’ll go through it chronologically. First he slowly started to be treated less and less humanly. This was established at the beginning of the book when all the Jewish people in Elie's block get transported to a ghetto. It is all downhill from there. Following, he is separated from his mother and sister, which is the last time he saw them. Then he is tortured, literally. Beat, starved, deprived of sleep and water. To top it off, his father passes away due to being in horrible conditions while being held prisoner. I believe that the worst part about Weisel’s experience is that he survived. Why? Because he has to live with it. He has to go through the rest of his life as a victim of the holocaust. As a

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