After reading both Night and The Book Thief I found myself making connections between both of the texts. The stories were told from different perspectives: one from young German child, and one from a Jew living within multiple prison camps. I found the most powerful part of Wiesel’s Night to be when the German soldiers were marching Eliezer and the other members of his concentration camp through torturous conditions. The stories overlapped when the Jewish people were marched down the Himmel Street in The Book Thief. The first-hand perspective in a prison camp and the outsider’s perspective watching Max being treated like an animal and marched down the street can be seen to contain similar emotions. Eliezer felt hatred towards the soldiers and agony when his father died; whereas Liesel felt compassion and sympathy. Both characters felt emotions that over took them. Both characters were compelled by their fathers to follow their emotions. Eliezer did not want to let go of his father and Liesel followed in her father’s footsteps and run up to Max even though she had seen her father whipped after offering a Jewish man a piece of bread during one of the marches.
Classroom Connections: Allowing students to complete a Text-to-Text chart would enable them to comprehend both novels because they would be finding connections within both of the texts. Both texts took place during the Second World War so many similarities could be made throughout the social context realms of both novels; however similarities could also be made between the characters of Rudy and Eliezer as well as other characters throughout both novels.
Classroom Connections: Allowing students to complete a Text-to-Text chart would enable them to comprehend both novels because they would be finding connections within both of the texts. Both texts took place during the Second World War so many similarities could be made throughout the social context realms of both novels; however similarities could also be made between the characters of Rudy and Eliezer as well as other characters throughout both novels.