Similarities Between Night And The Pianist

Night and The Pianist Compare and Contrast Both, the book Night and The Pianist movie, depict the Holocaust during the 1940s. In the beginning, both are sent to the ghettos to get sent off to the concentration camps. However, both suffer different but somewhat similar faiths as Wladyslaw Szpilman is set free from his family, to work as a slave labourer for the Germans. While Elie is still sent off to a concentration camp to be a laborer there. You can clearly see the similarities as both still have to work for the Germans. As both stories progress, Ellie and Wladyslaw talk about their horrific experiences of how the German SS treated the jews. Wladyslaw experiences how many are ruthless enough to shoot the victims in the heads immediately
after selection. Comparing this to Elie, who witnesses many of them taken to the gas chambers, instead of witnessing the actual killings up close. During the times they were doing labor for the Germans, both faced the same punishments when disobeying them. The punishments they were given was just getting whipped. However, Wladyslaw was whipped for dropping equipment, while Elie was whipped for seeing Idek sleeping with a Polish girl. Compare and contrasting their relationship with the Germans, it could be clearly stated that Wladyslaw had a much better one with them as one of the officers allowed to let him live and survive just right before the end of WWII. Nevertheless, looking at Elie’s relationship with the Germans it was much more brutal and sickening as they took his whole family to the gas chamber and gave him no help into surviving the end of WWII. To end this, both had a similar faith, as both survived and wrote about their experiences of the holocaust and were published into either a movie or book.