Themes Of Love In Literature And Book Comparison

One of the ways that these two books are similar because they share a common theme. Most individuals use love as a beacon for survival to get through difficult situations. These books are similar because they both use love as a symbol of hope to survive during these desperate times. Isaac has always thought that he could be more than just an average person, his love for science would help save people one day. Isaac thinks, "...the portrait suggests vanity, that Isaac saw himself as something bigger than a mere recorder of rainfall and temperature. He was a scientist, not some farmer who gaged the weather by aches in a rheumatoid knee," he thought to himself. (Larson 4) He wants everyone to be safe. He thinks he is there so that he could do …show more content…
Ellie wanted to survive and be with his father no matter what it took. Ellie said, “I gave him what was left of my soup,” to help him survive. (Wiesel 107) Ellie didn’t want to loose his dad, because he was all he had left at this point. He will be the last person of his family that he will ever see again. He didn’t want to be left alone in the camp without protection, which his dad has been able to do. In addition, in both books the characters had struggled through these difficult times in their lives. Isaac says, "Thus, he argued, hurricanes could not as a rule strike Texas," congress made him believe. (Larson 80) Nobody thought that a storm like that could hit their small town of Galveston. Even the government denied that this could possibly happen. Everyone was blind to the things happening around them except for Isaac. Elie and the others were forced to march including his father, if you had stopped you would die. I saw, “heavy snow continued to fall over the corpses,” before the cabin door opened that was all we saw. (Wiesel 90) The prisoners had to see these bodies get walked over and trampled and no one did anything about it. If the prisoners tried to help then they would also die on the