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Compare And Contrast Night And The Boy In The Striped Pajamas
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These books are Night by Elie Wiesel and the book The Boy in The Striped Pajamas. Both of the main characters are sent off to a Nazi Concentration camp. They are both towards the end of World War 2.

These books are similar in many ways, even though both books go in either a good or bad way. In general both of the main characters were very precarious.
Both boys went to Auschwitz. Both parents suffered from at least one thing in both books. Shlomo, Elie’s father was killed in Birkenau. This has resulted in a very bad ending for Elie.

The Boy in The Striped Pajamas, Bruno's father has suffered in a very bad way. Bruno was killed in Auschwitz. This resulted in a tragic moment for

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