'Night' And Elie Wiesel's Life Is Beautiful
Distant from home during a time of misery and struggle begins to make a victim of suffering change their perspective on life. The memoir, “Night” by Elie Wiesel, novel “All Quiet on the Western Front,” by Erich Maria Remarque, and Life is Beautiful, directed by Roberto Benigni, all central around ordinary people whose lives change exponentially when either at war or captured during the Holocaust. Their government turns them to hostages, taking away their past lives. They crumble into immense feelings of remorse, and question the reasons why they have been forced to cope with these circumstances. Being away from their ordinary lifestyles has revealed the vitality of their relationships, along with the difficulties of keeping a positive outlook while tone captures their moods and surrounding atmosphere. In all three stories, relationships become a huge factor when positivity is absent, giving each character something worth living for. Relationships
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In “All Quiet on the Western Front”, and “Night”, both stories are introduced in a darker tone. This is because Wiesel gets taken to a concentration camp and Paul gets departed to war very early on. In contrast, Guido and his family in Life is Beautiful do not get held hostage until later on in the film. Though each story transmits a depressing tone, putting the reader into the shoes of the protagonists. In the article, “Buddy Check on 22! Veterans use Social Media to Fight Suicide” Christine Hauser mentions, “But some veterans steer away from the Veterans Affairs system. They are not sure a doctor who has never seen enemy fire can relate to their experiences.” This can relate to almost anyone who hasn’t been deported to war, or even lived through the Holocaust. That’s why each story emulates such a distressing tone, to really capture one’s feelings when being surrounded by death and
In “All Quiet on the Western Front”, and “Night”, both stories are introduced in a darker tone. This is because Wiesel gets taken to a concentration camp and Paul gets departed to war very early on. In contrast, Guido and his family in Life is Beautiful do not get held hostage until later on in the film. Though each story transmits a depressing tone, putting the reader into the shoes of the protagonists. In the article, “Buddy Check on 22! Veterans use Social Media to Fight Suicide” Christine Hauser mentions, “But some veterans steer away from the Veterans Affairs system. They are not sure a doctor who has never seen enemy fire can relate to their experiences.” This can relate to almost anyone who hasn’t been deported to war, or even lived through the Holocaust. That’s why each story emulates such a distressing tone, to really capture one’s feelings when being surrounded by death and