Similarities and differences between Night and Schindler's List (Rhetorical question/quote). Many books and movies describe the lives of people during the Holocaust, but more specifically the book Night by Elie Wiesel and Schindler’s list directed by Steven Spielberg are going to be focused on most. Night explains the story of Elie Wiesel and his experience as a jew during the holocaust as well as how Elie took care of his dad and tried to survive for the both of them. Schindler's list takes a different approach and shows the Holocaust in the point of view of Oskar Schindler; a member of the Nazi party. The goal of this paper is to compare and contrast the similarities and differences between the themes and characters of Night and Schindler's
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Schindler’s list displays the theme that one man can make a huge difference on other people and the world. In the movie Schindler’s list, Schindler saves a much greater amount of people, however in the book Night, Elie Wiesel has a much more focused group that he affects, specifically his dad Shlomo Wiesel. In schindler's list is shows Oskar Schindler’s factory that was run by jewish slaves that Oskar was secretly saving the lives of was liberated (Spielberg). Oskar seen that he had saved around a thousand lives, although he wished that he had saved more lives, Oskar had to go into hiding. In Night Elie took care of his sick dad and tried to save him, the text read “listen to me, kid. Don’t forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every man for himself, and you can not think of others. Not even your father”(Wiesel 110). Elie is saving his father, protecting him as long as he could but Shlomo, Elie's father, died and Elie didn’t have to try to save anyone else. Understanding how the theme is portrayed differently in each text helps you better understand how different the movie Schindler’s list and the book Night are from each other. Advancing on, another similarity is
Schindler’s list displays the theme that one man can make a huge difference on other people and the world. In the movie Schindler’s list, Schindler saves a much greater amount of people, however in the book Night, Elie Wiesel has a much more focused group that he affects, specifically his dad Shlomo Wiesel. In schindler's list is shows Oskar Schindler’s factory that was run by jewish slaves that Oskar was secretly saving the lives of was liberated (Spielberg). Oskar seen that he had saved around a thousand lives, although he wished that he had saved more lives, Oskar had to go into hiding. In Night Elie took care of his sick dad and tried to save him, the text read “listen to me, kid. Don’t forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every man for himself, and you can not think of others. Not even your father”(Wiesel 110). Elie is saving his father, protecting him as long as he could but Shlomo, Elie's father, died and Elie didn’t have to try to save anyone else. Understanding how the theme is portrayed differently in each text helps you better understand how different the movie Schindler’s list and the book Night are from each other. Advancing on, another similarity is