El Blog de Roberto: Night and Schindler's List comparison

Night, a memoir written by Ellie Wiesel, exhibits the holocaust appeared in 1940s. The story develops mainly by Wiesel’s own experiences that he had in 1940s, in which the holocaust was at the highest point. Schindler’s List is a film directed by Steven Spilberg, in which he develops particular protagonist, Oskar Schindler, a German Businessman who desires to save Jewish people. Both Night and Schindler’s List exhibit the crucial consequences of the holocaust. In the section 1 of Night, the Hungarian forces decide to expel foreign Jews from Sighet, where people had to abandon all of their valuables and houses as the soldiers forced them to do. In the ghetto, prisoners were completely forbidden to have their own valuables; they have to wear same cloth and receive numbers that are used instead of their own names. One can see this in the film Schindler’s list as well, in which German soldiers collected all of the valuables and forced Jewish people to move out of their houses. Many people died during the expulsion for disobeying the soldiers just as it is shown in Night. Both in Night and Schindler’s List, Jewish people have sent to ghettos in Sighet and Cracow, respectively, where Jewish people had limited rights. On the other hand, there are some differences between Night and Schindler's List that could be observed. In Schindler’s List, Schindler built Jewish factory and provided workers little bit of time to get out of ghetto, while people in Night were completely forbidden to move out, but only work. Additionally, while Night completely eliminated optimistic stories and displayed only the crucial points of holocaust, Schindler's List exhibits Oskar Schindler's magnanimous actions for Jews; he saves lives of about 6000 people by using his own money. Although Schindler's List contains more hopeful plot than Night does, but still, film Schindler’s List and memoir Night were highly similar in that both exhibit suffering of Jews caused by holocaust, which must be remember as the worst event has ever made.