Comparison: Similarities Between Morrie And Elie

Humanity is what makes people who they are and treat others the way they do. Humanity is a terrifying thing and it can also be a beautiful blossom of hope to those who cherish it. Two men who have experienced humanity are Morrie and Elie, these two have experienced humanity in their own way. These men know of both humanity and inhumanity as both contrast well with past experiences. As Morrie is dying throughout his story, he felt he needed to give and be an overall model to how society should act. Elie is more on the short hand of the stick as he dealt with the lowest of the low with human’s inhumanity and felt that he needed to stay alive to share his story so that no one forgets what happened to millions of people. Both share a similar goal …show more content…
Elie’s religion was where his humanity sprouted and gave him the personality that he has today and what is shown publicly. His humanity is what his drive was, his family and what he believed him were the key factors why he was different. As time went on and as they were slowly taken away to the camps, inhumanities started to pop up left and right that truly tested the boundaries that Elie had. It all cascaded during his first night at the camps, “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed...Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.” (Wiesel 34). Elie’s humanity took a nosedive into the deep end of the pool as he experience how horrible inhumanity can be. Elie had to keep his humanity there for a countless number of nights afterwards, slowly draining him of what he was, leaving him and every Jew around him like husks. That small amount of humanity is what gave life to Elie, it helped him save his father countless times as his father is holding whatever humanity Elie had left. Elie shall always remember his father’s smile, wondering from what world that it came from (Wiesel 90). It takes a strong person like Elie to have humanity after so many terrible …show more content…
Morrie and Elie are on different spectrums of the Humanity scale but show how to share what humanity can be despite that scale. They are night and day compared to each other and share what it means to give and share humanity to others. These men is what society should strive to become when life gets them down or a tragic experience takes place. They are beacons that we can go to when we do not know what to do and they are examples that we can learn