“There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man. “ -Alan Paton. Throughout the novels of Tuesdays with Morrie written by Mitch Albom and Night written by Elie Wiesel there is so many inhumanity and humanity things. The men in these books seemed to had suffered and life got the best of them. They were given a purpose to live and show what they were capable of doing but fell short. There is a copious amount of ways the two novels are alike but also different. In the novels, Tuesdays with Morrie and Night they struggled through never giving up, keeping the relationships alive, and all the humanity and inhumanity. Morrie never once wanted to give up his time he had left on this earth. He …show more content…
They both believed to wake up everyday in the Holocaust and try to push through it. There would be days they wanted to give up and just let go, but they chose to keep fighting and push through it.. The humanity of the novel, Night, was about never giving up and the relationships. Elie and his father kept themselves alive despite everything that was going on around them. Elie kept his father alive for as long as he could and helped him push through it. However, Elie knew his father was getting bad but Elie could not take on the Holocaust without him. The inhumanity in the novel, Night, was how the Naizs treated the Jews. They were talking the Jews lives one right after another. They would starve them, take their clothes, hang them, make them work to death, and put them in gas chambers. Elie at the end of the camp finally got to look at himself in a mirror. Elie had not seen himself in a long time, he could not even recognize himself. Elie said, “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me” (Wiesel 115). This shows all the inhuminity the Niaz’s did to the Jews. They treated them as if they were not