In My Mother's Shoes And Night Comparison

Ellie Weisel’s novel The Night and Shirley Wachtel’s In My Mother’s Shoes are as much similar as they are different. Both novels narrate the details of those who were forced to live in the concentration camps for years. In My Mother’s Shoes is told from Holocaust survivor, Blima, and her daughter, Shirley, and switches from each of them throughout the novel. Although In My Mother’s Shoes is told from two view points it can be viewed as three because Betty is Blima’s American name and only recounts her American life while as Betty it only details her European life.TN is only told from one person’s point of view, Eliezer, detailing things leading up to the Holocaust till right after it is over. Both novels depicts how the societies each lived …show more content…
Later she meets Gizella who first instilled strong fear in her but later cares for her. Gizella is not a prisoner, but a female guard with a kind heart who takes Blima in as her second daughter. When the camp gets evacuated Blima and Gizella get separated forever leaving Blima in tears over losing yet another mother. Both Blima and Eliezer have parents to look after them whether it be biological or not. They also are left parentless because of having to switch camps so often. Blame is forced to leave her “mother” because the camp is terminated, while Eliezer has his father make it until the end of the war is near and he dies because of failed health issues.

In Night the character Moshe the Beadle who had lived in the neighborhood warns the folks, but was only seen as a crazy man. In My Mother’s Shoes the people would only view the horror stories similar to Moshe’s as rumors never to be taken seriously even in the ghetto they thought of it as “not too bad.” Blima viewed her brother Froyim’s warnings as an unstantiated worry just as the community had done to Beadle’s. In both stories no one had taken Hitler or the Nazis to be a threat until it was too