Life is beautiful

Similarities
There are many of similarities between Night and Life is Beautiful. Such as, the father and son relationship between Guido and his son, and Ellie and his father. In both stories they started off as everyday happy people who go through life normally. Then near the middle they both were shipped to a concentration camp where the father ends up dying. Another similarity is the fact that both of the fathers were paranoid about being captured but they didn't really express it or prepare for being taken.

Differences
Although there are similarities there are still a lot of differences. Such as the mothers, throughout the entire movie you see the Dora in various places and eventually she reunites with her son. In Night the mother only lasts for the first couple chapters. When Elie and his father reach the first camp he saw his mother and sisters go to a separate location and he ends up never seeing them again. Both the fathers die however they die in very different ways. Elie’s father was taken to a crematorium while Ellie  was asleep, and Giosué’s father was murdered in an alley of the camp on the night the Germans lost the war. One final difference is their liberation. America liberated the camp that Giosué was in, and Russia liberated the last camp that Elie was sent to, therefore setting Elie and Giosué free.

Suspense or Humor
From the very beginning of the movie you could see that this movie was going to be humorous. At the very beginning of the movie Guido and Ferruccio are driving their car down the road and they don't realize that the car's brakes are gone. This causes them to drive right into a parade where there are tons of people who believe that Guido is Mussolini because he raises his hand as if he was hailing Hitler while telling people to move out of the way. One of the most notable pieces of Humor in the movie is Guido constantly falling for Dora, literally falling. He firsts meets her when she falls out of a chicken coop and into a haystack with Guido. They then fall on each other again when Guido tries to escape Amico and crashes right into Dora again. Then when Guido impersonates an inspector he meets Dora yet again and asks her out right there on the spot.

Life IS Beautiful
In the middle of the movie Guido announces his love for Dora and takes her out of a party on a green horse. They then have a child named Giosué and live happily together. While Guido and Giosué get shipped to a concentration camp Dora insists on staying with her family and demands that she be sent on the train as well. Within the concentration camp Guido and Giosué find a PA which Guido uses to tell Dora how much he loves her and exposes himself and almost gets themselves caught, but he did it so his wife doesn't give up hope.

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How do Elie's experiences during the Holocaust change him as a person?

Elie definitely goes through tons of changes. Many of them affected his personality, morals, and faith. His physical appearance was also changed because of the poor conditions in the camps. Before the Holocaust Elie is a very religious and innocent child. However, during and after the Holocaust we see Elie become a emotionless man who strives for survival. Wiesel says “Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. We thought only of that. Not of revenge, not of our families. Nothing but bread”(109) In the beginning of the book Elie is a well fed and normal kid with a love for his family and had no enemies. Now he only cares about filling his starving stomach and his survival.

Beliefs

In the beginning of the book Elie is a very pious boy and does everything he can to learn more about his religion. Wiesel says “We talked like this nearly every evening. We used to stay in the synagogue after all the faithful have left, sitting in the gloom, where a few half-burned candles still gave a flickering light” (3). This is the part when he explains his time with Moshe the Beadle and shows so much interest Ginto his religion. He takes the time and effort to study and gets help from Moshe because he wants to know as much as he can. Then as the book goes on there is a huge change of his perspective on his religion. Wiesel says “But these men here, whom You have betrayed, whom You have allowed to be tortured, butchered, gassed, burned, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise Your name!” (64). Here he realizes that God is silent. He believes that he is just letting all of this happen. Elie is now understanding the negative that God has done.                                                      
             


Morality

Elie’s morales aren't explicitly shown in the book, however it is easy to find them within it. Most of his morals come in while he’s already in the concentration camps with his father. Wiesel says “A terrible thought loomed up in my mind: he had wanted to get rid of his father! He had felt that his father was growing weak, he had believed that the end was near and had sought this separation in order to get rid of the burden, to free himself from an encumbrance which could lessen his own chances of survival” (87). This is when he realizes that the son of Rabbi Eliahou wanted to leave his father to better his chances of survival. That destroys one of his morals to protect his family.

Wiesel, Elie. Night, Elie Wiesel. New York: Spark Publishing, 2014. Print