Night Vs Schindler's List Research Paper

Night vs. Schindler’s List
The stories of the Holocaust can be interpreted in many different ways and perspectives, some highlight “heros,” while others highlight what happened to the Jewish in a very sensitive way. In the Holocaust, almost six million Jews had died and the goal was to eliminate them all after they had worked for the Germans/Nazis. In the movie, Schindler’s List, by Steven Spielberg, it points out what Oskar Schindler did for the Jews and how he “saved” them. However, in the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, it tells us what happened to a young boy named Elie and his family while they were in a concentration camp. The main ideas in both of these non-fictional stories is how Elie and Schindler’s values change, what their worldview is, and the …show more content…
Before the Holocaust, Elie and Schindler both had different values that changed as time went on. When Elie had first gotten to the concentration camp, he was very religious, but by the time he had left, he didn’t believe in God because God hadn’t done anything for them except kill Jews. However, he often went back and forth between believing and not believing. Originally, he thought that God was just challenging him but, he also didn’t think God would kill millions of Jews just because he was challenging him. Another value change of Elie’s was about him and his father. To begin with, he wanted him and his father to make it through this alive, despite that he would be better off without his dad and he was starting to realize that towards the end of the book. His dad did end up passing away. Although Elie’s dad was one of the reasons Elie kept going, his dad was holding him back and I think that if Elie’s dad didn’t die, Elie would’ve because he was giving his dad the rations of food that he got, making Elie weaker. Elie had a father, a mother and a couple of sisters that he had gotten separated from, except for his dad, and he wanted nothing more than to be with them