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135,000. The number of people held in Auschwitz, death camp, at its peek in 1944. Out of 1-1.5 million people, only 135,000 got to live the rest of their lives. On of those people was Eliezer Wiesel, author of the book Night (2006), and holocaust server. His story is not the only story out there. The move “Life is Beautiful” (2000) follows the story of a young man and his son though the holocaust. In the novel Night and in the movie “Life is Beautiful,” the holocaust is portrayed both similarly and differently through the fathers and the sons, developments of the fathers, and the faith development in the two boys.
The most juxtapose aspect of the two stories was the relationship between the fathers and the sons. Both fathers care about their sons, but in Night (2006) they were not close at the beginning. “It’s dangerous to fall asleep in the snow. One falls asleep forever. Come, my son, come… get up” (Wiesel, 2006, p. 88). Eliezer and father grow in their relationship throughout the book, but at this moment shows how close they now are. After running for a long time, they can rest; Eliezer’s father won’t let him. Out of fear of losing his son, and …show more content…
In “Life is Beautiful” (2000), we do not know what the boys view on God is, but he has faith in his father. At the beginning his father told him to listen to the people that were in charge and to take a shower; but, he disobeyed, and it saved his life. Later in the story his father told him to hide and he obeyed (Life is beautiful, 2000), saving his life and showing how much he believed his father. However, Eliezer had a faith in God; he loses his faith in God. “where is God?’ and from within me, I heard a voice answer: ‘Where He is? This is where-hanging here from this gallows…’” (Wiesel, 2006). He thought God was dead, and God was truly dead to him; but, luckily Eliezer returned to the faith years later. Both boys in both stories developed in their

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