Bernabe Rincon
English 10
Block 5
29 January, 2013
Prisoners in the 1940’s? Held in these things called concentration camps? Camps located on both sides of the world. There are many comparisons and contrasts between there two, very interesting books. Books that talk about what humans are capable of doing. That was then, this is now.
There was this young boy by the name of ElieWiesel. An author, survivor, a Jew. The author of the book Night. A book about the holocaust and everything that happened in this event. It was about a Jewish boy and his father. Who had slept on hard bunks located in apartment looking things called barracks. Elie and his father both had slept in these barracks for months. Hitler, the leader of the Nazis, was in control of all this. His goal was to kill the Jewish race by taking them to concentration camps and having them work all day with little to no food at all. This quote shows how bad Hitler was, “Why, but why should I bless Him? In every fiber, I rebelled. Because He had had thousands of children burned in his pits? Because He kept six crematories working night and day, on Sundays and feast days? Because on His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Bierkenau, Buna, and so many factories of death" (Elie Wiesel, 64). The only way the Jews were going to be liberated was if the Soviet Union was to liberate them from the Nazi army. What had happened? The Soviet Union liberated most the camps causing Hitler to run and later commit suicide.
The other book I had read was called Farewell to Manzanar. This book was about the Americans holding the Japanese in concentration camps. But these kind of camps were different then the camps in Night. In these camps all they were to do is stay there until everything had been cleared from the important event in U.S. history, Pearl Harbor. “Tolerance had turned to distrust and irrational fear.” (Houston, 604). The condition here weren’t the best but they were better then the condition in Night. “During the night Mama had unpacked all our clothes and heaped them on our beds for warmth.” (Houston, 609).
There are some similarities in the two books also. Both Elie and Houston are both authors. More similarities about the two books are they were taken away and didn’t know where they are being taken. The conditions of both of these camps were bad. For example, the barracks in both books where not the best there could be. The only thing they had for warmth was a blanket. The food also was crappy, both had bread and soup. Those were some similarities and yet there are still way more.
The years around 1940 were not the best for many people. People treated like animals, shouldn’t be treated like that, ever! One used for evil the other used just for placement. Many books written about these events, but these are only two. Times were tough, nothing like this should ever repeat at all. But who knows.
English 10
Block 5
29 January, 2013
Prisoners in the 1940’s? Held in these things called concentration camps? Camps located on both sides of the world. There are many comparisons and contrasts between there two, very interesting books. Books that talk about what humans are capable of doing. That was then, this is now.
There was this young boy by the name of ElieWiesel. An author, survivor, a Jew. The author of the book Night. A book about the holocaust and everything that happened in this event. It was about a Jewish boy and his father. Who had slept on hard bunks located in apartment looking things called barracks. Elie and his father both had slept in these barracks for months. Hitler, the leader of the Nazis, was in control of all this. His goal was to kill the Jewish race by taking them to concentration camps and having them work all day with little to no food at all. This quote shows how bad Hitler was, “Why, but why should I bless Him? In every fiber, I rebelled. Because He had had thousands of children burned in his pits? Because He kept six crematories working night and day, on Sundays and feast days? Because on His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Bierkenau, Buna, and so many factories of death" (Elie Wiesel, 64). The only way the Jews were going to be liberated was if the Soviet Union was to liberate them from the Nazi army. What had happened? The Soviet Union liberated most the camps causing Hitler to run and later commit suicide.
The other book I had read was called Farewell to Manzanar. This book was about the Americans holding the Japanese in concentration camps. But these kind of camps were different then the camps in Night. In these camps all they were to do is stay there until everything had been cleared from the important event in U.S. history, Pearl Harbor. “Tolerance had turned to distrust and irrational fear.” (Houston, 604). The condition here weren’t the best but they were better then the condition in Night. “During the night Mama had unpacked all our clothes and heaped them on our beds for warmth.” (Houston, 609).
There are some similarities in the two books also. Both Elie and Houston are both authors. More similarities about the two books are they were taken away and didn’t know where they are being taken. The conditions of both of these camps were bad. For example, the barracks in both books where not the best there could be. The only thing they had for warmth was a blanket. The food also was crappy, both had bread and soup. Those were some similarities and yet there are still way more.
The years around 1940 were not the best for many people. People treated like animals, shouldn’t be treated like that, ever! One used for evil the other used just for placement. Many books written about these events, but these are only two. Times were tough, nothing like this should ever repeat at all. But who knows.