Life Is Beautiful Literary Analysis

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Travel back to WWII and experience life as a Jew. The irony is the word life because it is a mockery of what Hitler made the Jews endure. The publication of the novel Night and the movie "Life is Beautiful" give an inside experience to the events of the Holocaust. These two literary works dare to portray their different perspectives of life in a concentration camp. In the novel Night and in the movie "Life is Beautiful", the Holocaust was experienced both similarly and differently through the father/son relationship, the theme of faith in suffering, and the concept of hope. The father/son relationship in both the novel and the movie were heavily reliant on protection. In Night, the son must protect the father. Elie protects his father by …show more content…
During suffering, one's faith will either increase or decrease. Ironically, the state of Elie and Joshua's faith is evident in the title of their literary works. In the end of Night, Elie has an impalpable faith, and God is nonexistent in his life. Before he completely lets go of the concept of God, Elie states, "I no longer accepted God's silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him. And I nibbled on my crust of bread. Deep inside me, I felt a great void opening" (Wiesel, 2006, p. 69). This is the moment when Elie separates himself from God, and he loses his faith in God. Elie witnessed the horror around him and could not imagine a loving God allowing a machination like Hitler's to succeed. Nevertheless, in the movie "Life is Beautiful", Joshua remains strong in his faith. God's hand in the protection of Joshua's life is clear, and Joshua cannot deny it. For example, the prisoners did not snitch in an attempt to sell out the fact that Joshua was hiding from the Germans ("Life is Beautiful", 2000). With this, Guido made sure that Joshua never truly experienced the concentration camps as they were intended. As a result, Joshua kept his faith in God and was able to live a normal life ("Life is Beautiful", 2000). God was completely present for Joshua during his time in the concentration camp. While Elie viewed God as silent, Joshua viewed God as right beside him; therefore, Elie lost his faith in God while Joshua strengthened his relationship with
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