Night and The Book Thief are closely related works of literature. Both illustrate the challenges of prejudice through religious intolerance. Yet, these stories are shown through the eyes of totally different perspectives. Both books have countless struggles that happen simultaneously during time.
Max Vandenburg, from The Book Thief, leaves his mother and other family to hide away with one of his father’s closest friends. Before going into hiding, Max was a fist fighter. His first taste of a fight was when he was a mere eleven years old and as skinny as a tree. He fought against Wenzel Gruber and lost. Max longed for the taste of blood, along with the feeling of victory that came along with it. When Max was a teenager he realized what the real fight was- the fight against death. After watching his uncle succumb to death Max makes a vow to himself, “When death captures me, he will feel my fist on his face.” This vow influenced the way that Max lived the rest of his life.
Elie Wiesel, from Night, lived in Sighet, Transylvania. Sighet was a small, highly religious Jewish community. Elie was immersed in the Judaism practices. Visiting the synagogues and reading holy books were daily pastimes. His father encouraged Elie to engage in his studies to become a well-educated person. Serenity in Sighet was soon forgotten. It all started when all …show more content…
Yet Marcus Zusak did not include a scene about the German concentration camps. The focus of The Book Thief is to show World War 2 from the German point of view. The book goes to show that not only the allies endured hardships such as rations and unavailability of product. So did the Germans. Through out the book, people such as Ilsa Hermann had to give up laundry services to pay for the ongoing costs of war. This book goes to show that although the concentration camps were a large part of World War 2 for the Jews, everyone went through tough patches in this
Max Vandenburg, from The Book Thief, leaves his mother and other family to hide away with one of his father’s closest friends. Before going into hiding, Max was a fist fighter. His first taste of a fight was when he was a mere eleven years old and as skinny as a tree. He fought against Wenzel Gruber and lost. Max longed for the taste of blood, along with the feeling of victory that came along with it. When Max was a teenager he realized what the real fight was- the fight against death. After watching his uncle succumb to death Max makes a vow to himself, “When death captures me, he will feel my fist on his face.” This vow influenced the way that Max lived the rest of his life.
Elie Wiesel, from Night, lived in Sighet, Transylvania. Sighet was a small, highly religious Jewish community. Elie was immersed in the Judaism practices. Visiting the synagogues and reading holy books were daily pastimes. His father encouraged Elie to engage in his studies to become a well-educated person. Serenity in Sighet was soon forgotten. It all started when all …show more content…
Yet Marcus Zusak did not include a scene about the German concentration camps. The focus of The Book Thief is to show World War 2 from the German point of view. The book goes to show that not only the allies endured hardships such as rations and unavailability of product. So did the Germans. Through out the book, people such as Ilsa Hermann had to give up laundry services to pay for the ongoing costs of war. This book goes to show that although the concentration camps were a large part of World War 2 for the Jews, everyone went through tough patches in this