The Fight to Survive!

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“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.” (Night 32). The Holocaust left an impact felt Worldwide, but hit Jews harder than any other. It caused human beings to turn against one another because they followed a certain route of faith or religion to grow upon. Both books provide a reader with a vivid image of the Holocaust by providing very intimate, personal stories. The characters in these stories demonstrate skills of survival, hope, and love. While both Elie Wiesel in Night and Art Spiegelman in Maus I & II use themes of loss of hope and survival to underscore the difficulties of the holocaust, the different father/son relationships and guilt that results in each suggests that the generation gap affected the outlook of the war in each of the sons’ eyes.
“Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.” (Night 83). Elie of Night and Vladek of Maus both survived the Holocaust, b...

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