In the novella, Night by Elie Wiesel, the author paints an unforgettable image of suffering and despair that he, as well as other Jews, encountered while in a concentration camp during the Nazi regime. As hard as it is to believe something so evil occurred, the movie The Devil 's Arithmetic gave a face to all these horrific events that occurred and it leaves a impact on the viewers. In both the novella and the movie share questions that are relevant to each its own way. The first question is " Why is it important for the next generation to remember that millions of Jews were killed in concentration or death camps?", it is important for everyone to know about this simply to stop the naysayers and stop it from occurring again. In the novella
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The main character, Hannah, was the niece of a survivor of the Holocaust but did not feel that knowing about her own heritage was important till she ended up experiencing it herself. A lot of the youth feel as though their history is irrelevant and should stay history, the issue with that is if we do not know how far we have come we do not appreciate all that we currently have. Once people forget their roots it is like they forget their identity, it is as if they are lost souls and they are unaware. The second question is “Aside from weapons, how did the Nazis have control and power over the Jews in camp?”, in both the novella as well as in the movie The Devil’s Arithmetic the Nazis used a series of tactics to belittle the Jews resulting in control. In the novella Wiesel described how the Nazis took away everything that made them human, they started by taking away their freedom then they finally took away their names leaving them to be only identified by a tattooed number on their arm. In the novella the Jews are subjected activities like getting up and down in heat or running tirelessly in sub degree weather as if they are animals, if they do not do as they are told when they are told they are killed/beaten or threatened which would naturally install fear if it is done often. In the movie The Devil’s Arithmetic the Nazis control the camps by installing fear and stripping out any once of faith the Jews may have, they …show more content…
Just like in the movie the Jews wept, when the two men and the little pipel were hung, it was the fact that a child was suffering while hanging from a noose for no reason at all. In the film all the Jews were crying because it was someone close to them being killed so it hit closer to home than just a fellow Jew being hung for no good reason. Another image is the people being stripped and brought into the gas chambers to be exterminated is even more disturbing on screen than reading about it and allowing your imagination to come up with its own conclusion. In the movie it was hard to watch the ladies be stuffed into the "showers" and all these pelts are dropped in, they slowly die a painful death while the Nazis watch from little pinholes.
In the novella by Elie Wiesel, the author personifies the sound of his father 's voice in a section of the book, “My father’s voice tore me from my daydreams…” (Wiesel, 32). This personification falls into the movie, The Devil’s Arithmetic, in the movie the voices of Hannah 's family also "tore" her from her "daydream/dream" when she was passed out and experienced the holocaust. Now, the voices did not actually pull them from their daydreaming or "dreams", the voices just broke through to them and made them come back to
The main character, Hannah, was the niece of a survivor of the Holocaust but did not feel that knowing about her own heritage was important till she ended up experiencing it herself. A lot of the youth feel as though their history is irrelevant and should stay history, the issue with that is if we do not know how far we have come we do not appreciate all that we currently have. Once people forget their roots it is like they forget their identity, it is as if they are lost souls and they are unaware. The second question is “Aside from weapons, how did the Nazis have control and power over the Jews in camp?”, in both the novella as well as in the movie The Devil’s Arithmetic the Nazis used a series of tactics to belittle the Jews resulting in control. In the novella Wiesel described how the Nazis took away everything that made them human, they started by taking away their freedom then they finally took away their names leaving them to be only identified by a tattooed number on their arm. In the novella the Jews are subjected activities like getting up and down in heat or running tirelessly in sub degree weather as if they are animals, if they do not do as they are told when they are told they are killed/beaten or threatened which would naturally install fear if it is done often. In the movie The Devil’s Arithmetic the Nazis control the camps by installing fear and stripping out any once of faith the Jews may have, they …show more content…
Just like in the movie the Jews wept, when the two men and the little pipel were hung, it was the fact that a child was suffering while hanging from a noose for no reason at all. In the film all the Jews were crying because it was someone close to them being killed so it hit closer to home than just a fellow Jew being hung for no good reason. Another image is the people being stripped and brought into the gas chambers to be exterminated is even more disturbing on screen than reading about it and allowing your imagination to come up with its own conclusion. In the movie it was hard to watch the ladies be stuffed into the "showers" and all these pelts are dropped in, they slowly die a painful death while the Nazis watch from little pinholes.
In the novella by Elie Wiesel, the author personifies the sound of his father 's voice in a section of the book, “My father’s voice tore me from my daydreams…” (Wiesel, 32). This personification falls into the movie, The Devil’s Arithmetic, in the movie the voices of Hannah 's family also "tore" her from her "daydream/dream" when she was passed out and experienced the holocaust. Now, the voices did not actually pull them from their daydreaming or "dreams", the voices just broke through to them and made them come back to