Night And Life Is Beautiful Comparison

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In the book Night, a fifteen year old boy, Elie Wiesel, and his family were sent to different Nazi concentration camps including Auschwitz and Buna. In the movie Life is Beautiful, son Joshua and his family were also sent to a concentration camp. Joshua and Elie are both Jewish boys that were separated from their mothers and forced to work at concentration camps. Although Elie and Joshua both experienced the holocaust, they have completely different memories of it. Elie’s visit to the camp is more realistic; he actually experiences the death and horrors of the holocaust. In Joshua’s experience, his father keeps him away from seeing the true colors of the holocaust. In real life, Joshua’s father would never be able to keep a secret for