Compare and Contrast Anthem with Night Even though books come in many genres, they can still be compared and contrasted. This applies to almost all books. For example, Eliezer Wiesel’s Night and Ayn Rand’s Anthem are different genres. However, the similarities and differences between these author’s works are definite and deserve analysis. Such similarities include how the societies handle the executions of criminals. In Anthem, Equality has to stand “...in the great square with all the children and all the men of the city, sent to behold the burning” (Rand, 38). During Elie’s experience in the Holocaust, he and everyone else in his camp has to walk “...past the hanged boy and stared at his extinguished eyes, the tongue gaping from his mouth. The Kapos forced everyone to look him squarely in the face” (Wiesel, 63). Also, both Elie and Equality receive messages from watching a public execution. When the pipel is hanged, Elie thinks that God is no longer with the Jews and takes it to …show more content…
Elie and Equality desperately want more knowledge, but both are denied the opportunity. Before he was sent to a concentration camp, Elie asks his father “to find me a master who could guide me in the studies of Kabbalah” (Wiesel, 39). His father denies him by telling Elie the he is too young to learn about that. Almost the same thing happens with Equality because he wants to learn about everything on the Earth. He says the he “...asked so many questions that the teacher forbade it” and the teacher refuses to speak of the information (Rand, 23). Both boys are not given the knowledge they desire because society fears it. Additionally, The living quarters are separated based on the job the people perform. Equality lives in the Home of the Street Sweepers and Elie lives in a barrack with the electrical workers. They are separated in this way so that no one goes where they can do harm to the government or