Most people never think of how their families, their homes, and even their entire lives could be changed in an instant, but this is a devastating reality for many; homes evacuated, children taken away, belongings stolen, friends and family killed. Two such accounts of this immense tragedy are Elie Wiesel's autobiographical story, Night, and Yann Martel’s fictional tale, Life of Pi. Faced with grief, the main characters of both books overcome their hardships through a beacon of hope, a tremendous determination, and a courage that nobody should ever need to possess.
In Night, the main character and author of the book, Elie Wiesel, is taken from his home and put into a concentration camp run by Hitler’s Nazi party, along with his family and his fellow passengers. When they first arrive, his mother and sister are taken away to be slaughtered, and his father succumbs to dysentery later on. Toward the very end of the story, the camp is liberated, and he is taken to a hospital to have the injuries he suffered at the camp treated. He has the opportunity to look into a mirror for the first …show more content…
His family, decides to sell the zoo they own and move to North America (more specifically, Canada), due to a state of emergency being declared in his home country of India. However, while making the seaward trip, their ship capsizes in a storm, leaving his family, as well as most of the animals and other passengers on board, dead, except for himself and one tiger. Even though it seems that there is no conceivable way he could survive, his determination to live, his courage to tame the tiger he is shipwrecked with, and his hope that his family somehow made it out of the shipwreck unscathed, all help him to make