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Wiesel's Life Is Beautiful

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Night Analysis
Life is Beautiful is fictional account of the Holocaust that gives the story a comedic twist, therefore making it seem less accurate and not as believable. Night is a first person memoir of a real survivor of the Holocaust and gives the reader a more informative true story. In our lifetime, high schoolers have never had to experience a tragedy that affected us as much as the effect of the Holocaust. It is difficult for a teenager from a small town in America to comprehend the mass murders that occurred within the Holocaust. We acknowledge that it happened, yet cannot make connections much further because it is difficult to comprehend the scale. Night is a more valuable text for education because it is a first person encounter …show more content…

Wiesel tells the story from his viewpoint at the camp, and from his perspective after the Holocaust, where he reflected more on everything that happened. When he reflects on his Holocaust experience, he recalls, “Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes… children thrown into the flames (Is it any wonder that ever since then, sleep tends to elude me)” (Wiesel 32). Reading a nonfiction story is informative, but hearing a first person account is much more eye-opening. Wiesel explains what happened while he was at the camp, but provides a more of in-depth look at the Holocaust as he reflects on his experiences as an adult. Wiesel says that even now, “sleep tends to elude me,” giving a deeper look into how much of an effect the Holocaust really had on him. Telling it from two viewpoints also emphasizes the importance of occurrences like …show more content…

Students can connect to the experience better because Wiesel uses sensory words to put us in his shoes, “Monday went by like a small summer cloud, like a dream in the first hours of dawn” (Wiesel 18). Comparing the Holocaust to peaceful things that are relatable seems like a terrible thing to do, but in actuality it makes everything easier to connect to and want to understand more. He also does not alienate the Jewish people and try to make them sound different than any of us, even when they were being segregated and killed. He only mentions that everyone being killed in the camps were Jews when it's talking about statistics or straight facts, but when recounting his experience they are just people like the rest of us which makes it easier for each of us to connect to the victims individually. Being high school students, it is hard to connect to anything involving the Holocaust, but the way the story is written we get more of a connection to the people inside the

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