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A 5 page comparison of Elie Wiesel's Night and Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night. The paper shows that while both books are about the Holocaust, they depict suffering in different ways because of the degree to which the central characters are able to find meaning in their lives. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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more different. Vonnegut specializes in the blackest of gallows humor, while Wiesel work is told with a dreadful earnestness that tugs at the heart. While it could be argued that
both Vonneguts protagonist, Campbell, and Wiesel himself suffered during the Third Reich, their sufferings are depicted in very different ways because of the degree to which they cooperated in their
situation, and the meaning they derived from it. For example, Wiesel, as both a Jew and a teenager, was completely powerless to stop the extermination of his people. The only
thing he could have done was attempt to escape, and yet his love for his father, his strong sense of duty toward him, and the moral tenets of his religion
would have prevented him from doing that. Therefore, the only role open to Wiesel was to suffer whatever atrocities the Nazis chose to inflict on him. We watch in horror
as the Nazis take his mother and younger sister to the gas chambers; we suffer with Wiesel as he is beaten, starved, and overworked at the death camps; we mourn
with him as he watches his father reduced to a helpless wraith, finally dying of dysentery in the bunk below his sons. There is no laughter in this narrative, only
outrage and sorrow. However, Vonneguts protagonist, Howard Campbell, is not precisely a victim in the Holocaust at all. He stresses throughout that he is completely apolitical; the circumstances of war
force him into the middle of events when he is enlisted as a secret agent for the United States. His job is to work as a Nazi radio announcer, broadcasting
carefully-prepared messages which contain coded wording only decipherable to a few select Allied officials. The broadcasts are in fact a perfect cover, both because they are so blatantly pro-Nazi and
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