Comparing The Holocaust In Night And Tell Me How It Ends

Many countries outside of the U.S. have experienced atrocious genocide throughout history, considering the Holocaust as the largest. Eliezer Wiesel’s memoir “Night” describes the injustice Jews suffered from and his survival. Several decades later, Mexico is experiencing a gang related genocide. Valeria Luiselli’s essay “Tell Me How It Ends” describes the struggle Mexican children face when they attempt to gain passage into the U.S. Both works focus on the social inequality of both races and the inhumanity behind the laws passed against illegal immigration and those stripping Jews of their civil rights in Germany. The intentions behind both works is to avoid repeating history.
Between 1933 and 1945, Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler, began his systematic extermination of the Jewish community. …show more content…
Valeria Luiselli based the essay on the stories she heard and the children that left an impact on her life when she was an interpreter for these immigrant children. Many of the children coming into the U.S are escaping the violence, forced labor, prosecution from gangs and abandonment. Luiselli writes that many of these children are not coming into the country for the educational or job opportunities, “but rather the more modest aspiration to wake up from the nightmare into which they were born” (Luiselli, 13). The children she writes about cannot be identified because of the danger that awaits them when they go back home. Often times, these children are running away from a gang that wants to kill their family unless they work for them, or they promised to rape them and their mothers if they did not pay a price. When they are asked, “with whom did you travel to this country?” (Luiselli, 18), most children travel with a paid coyote, which is someone hired to transport migrants to the U.S. broder and drop them