Reflection On Night By Elie Wiesel

History itself is the study of past events that have occurred throughout the world. The importance of it is to supply people with factual details of the events. Therefore answering questions like Why a certain event happened? , Who took part in the event?,What was the result of the event?, and many more. Studying the history of our world is just getting information of what happened and you do not really get the details on how a certain event can impact the people during that specific time period. This is where literature comes into play to talk about the major themes that have come out of many historic events. Literature itself whether it is nonfiction or fiction plays a major part in getting readers to walk a mile in the shoes of the character
In the memoir,Night,By Elie Wiesel,the author’s personal experiences from being on concentration camps helped support the facts taught by history. History will teach you about what the Jews had to go through but the memoir itself would tell the readers what it was actually like to experience all of those situations. At one point in the memoir Elie talks about how he saw a son kill his own father for a ration of bread. History would teach you that the Jews were practically starving and only had a little bit of food and sometime none and they had to manage within. Literature itself will show how the Jews were affected and what it made them become all for the chance of
In the book, The Things they Carried, by Tim O’Brien, the lives of soldiers during the Vietnam war are described. The book shows how the soldiers are affected by various obstacles that they came face to face with. This work of literature helps to fill in the gaps of what the soldiers had to carry around with them not just physically but emotionally. Like when the soldiers had to deal with the lost of their friend Kiowa. At this point in the book the soldiers had to deal with the guilt that they had lost a companion. Also, they had to live with the guilt that that they believed that they did not do enough for Kiowa during that time.It shows how even years after the war is over the events that they have experience still seem to play a part in their lives at that moment. Also, the book shows how after the war there was nothing much for the soldiers to go home to because soldiers back then were not thought of as heros. Literature helps to take all of the facts from the war and expand upon that by telling it from the perspective of the soldiers that were there when it