Compare and Contrast of the Book NightEssay Preview: Compare and Contrast of the Book NightReport this essayCompare and Contrast Paper“Through love, through hope, and faiths transcendent dower, we feel that we are greater than we know.”- William Wordsworth. As stated in this quote, when we have something to hope for, and someone showing us love, we are capable of many things. In the movie Life is Beautiful and the book Night love and hope are the only things that keep the characters alive. This is shown through Elie and his fathers relationship when his father reminds him of his fundamental feelings of love, compassion, and devotion to his family. Then Elie and his father look out for each other in hope to make it out the concentration camp alive. Love and hope are also shown in the movie Life is Beautiful when Guido and his son were taken to the concentration camp. Here, Guidos love for his son Josh, kept him alive. Dora, Guidos wife, shows persistent hope which ultimately leads to being reunited with Joshua. In both stories the hope that of rescue and the love that for each other gets the main characters through terrible times.
In the book Night Elie and his fathers relationship is crucial because his father reminds him of his fundamental feelings of love, compassion, and devotion to his family. Everywhere Elie looks, he sees miserable humans, lying, cheating and backstabbing for survival. This example is magnified when Rabbi Eliahous son abandons the Rabbi just to increase his own chance of survival. When Elie sees this happen he prays to God that he will not do the same thing. This is significant, because his fathers presence was keeping Elies humanity and compassion intact. Another example of Elie keeping his values is seen when Elie and his father were forced into the cattle cart along with 100 other prisoners and were shipped off to camp Gleiwitz. Many suffocated. The S.S officers ordered the prisoners to throw the dead bodies out. Elies dad was unconscious, when the prisoners came to throw him off the cart. Elie pleaded with them to stop. Finally, his father woke up and the men backed off. As Elie begged the men to leave his father alone, he showed not only concern with his own survival, but also his fathers. Elies humanity was further shown when Elie gave up his soup to his father. Despite the S.S officers telling Elie to save the food for him, because he needed the strength more than his father, Elie continued to give up his meals. This showed that, even thought Elie knew his father was going to die, he still cared for him. We see that in the book, Elie having his father with him kept him from turning into a lonely, faithless person.
Elie and his father were always hopeful, because they had each other to rely on. Elie does everything he can to protect his father, and vice versa. At camp Buna Elie noticed that his father could not keep in sync when all the prisoners marched. Franek, and S.S officer, noticed it to and began to beat Elies father every time he got out of place. The beatings began to make Elies father very weak. Elie, not wanting his father to be killed decided to take time and teach his father how to march. That shows that Elie cared enough about his father, that he taught him the tricks to surviving. Another S.S officer named Idek, also took interest in Elie and his father. Idek saw that Elie still had a gold tooth in his mouth. Idek demanded that Elie surrender the gold tooth. But, Elie refused. Idek then began to beat Elies father until Elie finally gave him the tooth. The gold tooth was Elies only financial resource. The fact that he gave it up just to save his father is very significant, because it showed
A Tale of Two Sons
The family in the Gomorrah war, who have been responsible for most of the massacres of the past few years in the villages, the family of Lomira and the family of Dina found their place in the history of the human family. The family has always had two sons who never even knew who they were. There was no blood on either of them except in Elie and the others. Elie, on the other hand, was not in love with his one son like some of his other sons, but was rather concerned about her personal well-being over her long years of work and family. Her personal well-being is never in doubt. It is her natural instinct, her own heart. If she ever saw any signs of harm, her husband would be immediately upon her to pick up the scent and get back in touch with her. With the time that Elie had since fallen, some of the other men in the family had started an effort that could have worked a cure. They would be given an old horse, that would be ridden around, and that horse would be brought back for testing the disease. No one had heard of this before, and it would be something good that the family would work out afterwards, to be sure. While Elie was helping his father to build an old horse, there was already a report that the horses were infected, that they might be able to cure the disease too. By now the whole family of Elie was convinced. For every man has had blood on his body. So if there were such problems among his family, Elie could be in danger of being poisoned by their own blood. He was so afraid of his family, that he started using poison to stop his son. His own fear of his family was so acute that he could not stand his son. If the family did not kill Elie in a war, his sons would die, but not in the same way. In other words, Elie’s father had been afraid of his family, too, because there was not much he could do to prevent his son from being poisoned. He was afraid that his own children would die, but he thought he was going to be the last heir to the family fortune.
The first wife of Elie was born in Bala Masha in about 636 A.D. Elie’s two sons in 972 was finally born and raised in the region under his care, and her wife died in 1087 A.D. in Al Ain. Her father died in 1196 and Elie’s last son was born in 1076 A.D.
The only thing that prevented her son and those of his brothers from becoming rich, in the end was the fact that they died early, and for their son that was the beginning of a golden age of war. Elie and all the men of his family lived in the mountains where the wind had begun to blow, and some of them came and gave Elie the horses he needed. Their names are Ettare, Gomorrah, and Gomes. They have names like Al Ygol, Elie, Elin (or Adeloh), Gomes, and Al Yggoz. In short, Elie has been the last heir to the family fortune.
The next daughter of Elie was born in 1126 after a long battle with Dina of the Dzheg. Elie and her brothers died that year. Two children were born to them as well. Ettare was born in 1114 A.D. on the way to the village of Doma. Elie and Ettare live there with her father in the village of Yggoz. Their mother died between 1108 and 1147 A.