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Night By Elie Wiesel Analysis

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Eli’s story started when he was a young very religious teenage boy who was apart of the unfavorable group during the Holocaust, and unlike Eli, Paul was an adult and he was apart of the prefered group during the genocide he experienced. Obviously Eli and Paul didn't have the exact same experiences. because they were apart of two different genocides. Eli went through the Holocaust during World War II as a Jew so he didn't have much if any control at all when it came to loved ones. Paul experienced the genocide in Rwanda, and he was Hutu which was the more favorable group so he has a lot of power and chances to help people. Although Eli and Paul were in two completely different situations they had to some of the same things in order to survive. Elie and Paul were in different …show more content…

Paul saved his family and friends because he was apart of the more favorable group and he could bribe the guards to protect them like when Paul went to the hotel safe to get money for the guards (Hotel Rwanda) , Eli didn’t have that choice because he was a Jew during the holocaust in Germany and the Nazi soldiers made his sister and mother separate from Him and his father, the Nazi soldiers screamed “men to the left! Women to the right!” (Wisel 27) . Being a Jew was extremely difficult because all of the Jews in germany during the holocaust were sent to concentration camps where they either had to work or they were killed in gas chambers, shot, or even hung, someon told Eli something he would never forget and that was "'Do you see that chimney over there? See it? Do you see those flames? (Yes, we did see the flames.) Over there-that's where you're going to be taken. That's your grave, over there.'" (Wisel 28). Over all I believe that Eli had it harder because he was a Jew during the holocaust and life was easier for Paul because he was in the more favorable group during the genocide in

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