Night Vs. Life Is beautiful
In both Elie Wiesel’s “Night” and Roberto Benigni's “ Life is Beautiful” the element of
chance played a major role in the outcome of each character. It impacts the paths of each
family in negative and positive way’s. Throughout each family’s time in the concentration
camps they are so heavily influenced by greed, anger and corruption that without the role of
chance, hope and love surviving would have been impossible. With displays of unknowingly
running from the enemy to randomly being selected by the enemy, chance changes their
lives forever.
In the beginning of Life Is Beautiful Guido’s son Giosue refuses to take a bath for his
mother. This later turns out to be a positive impact of chance on this little boy. In the
concentration camp Giosue is asked to strip and take a shower which would have actually
been a gas shower intending to kill him. Instead he runs off and hides and does not get into
that shower. Similarly in the book Night, Eliezer's father is selected to be killed because
of his emaciated and malnourished body in the Buna labour camp. Luckily there was a
second selection among the condemned which allowed him to go back to the barracks.
Both of these examples portray a positive outcome of chance that lead to their success in
the camps.
When The Germans received new’s of the Russians advancing into the Buna camp they
started killing everyone . At this point in the book Eliezer is in the infirmary due to a foot
injury. When the Russians got even closer the entire camp was evacuated and most were slaughtered. In fear of being killed Eliezer and his father joined the evacuation even though ELiezer was still hurt.. Little did they know that if they had stayed in the infirmary they would have been rescued by the russians day’s later. This negative impact of chance prevented Eliezer’s father from surviving the holocaust.
chance played a major role in the outcome of each character. It impacts the paths of each
family in negative and positive way’s. Throughout each family’s time in the concentration
camps they are so heavily influenced by greed, anger and corruption that without the role of
chance, hope and love surviving would have been impossible. With displays of unknowingly
running from the enemy to randomly being selected by the enemy, chance changes their
lives forever.
In the beginning of Life Is Beautiful Guido’s son Giosue refuses to take a bath for his
mother. This later turns out to be a positive impact of chance on this little boy. In the
concentration camp Giosue is asked to strip and take a shower which would have actually
been a gas shower intending to kill him. Instead he runs off and hides and does not get into
that shower. Similarly in the book Night, Eliezer's father is selected to be killed because
of his emaciated and malnourished body in the Buna labour camp. Luckily there was a
second selection among the condemned which allowed him to go back to the barracks.
Both of these examples portray a positive outcome of chance that lead to their success in
the camps.
When The Germans received new’s of the Russians advancing into the Buna camp they
started killing everyone . At this point in the book Eliezer is in the infirmary due to a foot
injury. When the Russians got even closer the entire camp was evacuated and most were slaughtered. In fear of being killed Eliezer and his father joined the evacuation even though ELiezer was still hurt.. Little did they know that if they had stayed in the infirmary they would have been rescued by the russians day’s later. This negative impact of chance prevented Eliezer’s father from surviving the holocaust.