Night and Slaughterhouse-Five
Night and Slaughterhouse-Five
For thousands of years mankind has been killing each other for what, to gain more land, to gain superiority over another, or to show how strong we are. For whatever reason we are always at war with each other the 1900 were no exception with two world wars and plenty of smaller wars. “Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy”like J.F.K. said war will end us if we keep it up, war helps no one it just bring destruction and chaos. Out of all the wars both novels ‘Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut’ and ‘Night by Elie Wiesel’ were based on the second World War. ’Night’ is about the hardship that a Jewish boy had to go through to survive Auschwitz …show more content…
After a little bit his unit that he was with finding him to be useless, they decided to make fun of him treat him poorly and to even make him dress funny. What the Englishman said about survival was this: "If you stop taking pride in your appearance, you will very soon die." ‘He said that he had seen several men die in the following way:’ "They ceased to stand up straight, then ceased to shave or wash, then ceased to get out of bed, then ceased to talk, then died. (pg 174)". All throughout the novel Billy is never given any respect and in doing so this cause an effect on Billy which will make him feel like he is worthless and can do nothing right and he believes everything that anyone tells him. Billy loses his uniqueness and his personality and becomes a blob that is why throughout the novel Billy latches on to people, for example Weary his war buddy Billy needs him to do everything for him. During the war Billy wanted to die when he was shot at by a sniper he stood there allowing the sniper to take another shot at Billy. Billy also did not care much for death after every mention of death in the novel it says “so it goes” because of all the things that happened to Billy throughout the war he got less affected by death and merely takes it as it happens to everyone and why cry or show any emotion towards it. All of the …show more content…
All throughout the novel ‘Night’ Elie is always hope of the day the Russians will crash through that gate and save all of them from their doomed fate. “Don’t lose hope… Have faith in life, a thousand times a fate… Help each other. That is our way to survive (pg 41)”. With everything that was happening the Jewish faith was still strong in them, they still had hope even when times were bad and they stayed together and hoped for a better day. Everything that the Jewish faith had to go through to stay alive through the Holocaust is a testament to their strong will and their ability to live with anything. “Bite your lips, little brother… Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hatred, for another day. That day will come, but now… Wait clench your teeth and wait.” (pg 53). This quote shows the morals and the strong faith that they had and even when they are getting beaten and killed, they will wait for their moment when they are free to go and to judge them. Both of the protagonist believed in something that they were passionate about and could stand behind one was about his dream to tell everyone about how they could live their life and the other was about a dream that could change their life by saving them from the evil that was the German people. Both did what they thought was right to get to their dream one ending up killing him and the other saved