The Slave and the Concentration/Extermination Camp
             Inmate: The Similarities and Differences Between the Two
             Both slaves and concentration/extermination camp inmates lived very crude and demanding lives. They lost their identities, and for many of them, their hope for better lives. Many slaves remained slaves their entire lives due to nothing more than their race, while similarly most concentration/extermination camp inmates were murdered for nothing more than their religion or race. Frederick Douglass and Elie Wiesel were able to survive the life of a slave and the life of an inmate, respectively, and they shared their moving stories with everyone. With the detailed description of Douglass' life as a slave in his book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Wiesel's description of his experience as an inmate in his book Night, it is possible to compare and contrast the life of a slave to that of a concentration/extermination camp inmate.
             There are a number of basic similarities between the life of a slave and the life of a concentration/extermination camp inmate. For one, both Douglass and Wiesel say how they were acted on, or in other words they did not choose to be a slave or a camp inmate. Both Douglass' Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Wiesel's Night are autobiographies in which they write about these lives that were forced on to them. One difference in literary style here is that Douglass tends not to individualize himself, where as he focuses more on the historic situation he was put in. Wiesel on the other hand goes into a little more depth about his own personal experiences. Both writers had to deal with vicious acts against fellow human beings all around them and they both have thoughts during these tough times where they feel they will never be free again and they both share with the reader how they overcome these thoughts.
             There are also a number of deeper similar...