Night and A Farewell to Arms

Night and A Farewell to Arms: Eliezer and Frederic In Night and A Farewell to Arms, the reader follows the characters of Elie Wiesel and Ernest Hemingway through their personal struggles between love and war. In Night, Eliezer faces malnutrition, Nazis, and concentration camps, while Frederick Henry, in A Farewell to Arms, struggles with love, patriotism, and religion. Despite their differences, the journeys of these two young men are remarkably similar; they both are prisoners …

…Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms similarities become apparent. In both, the main characters are semi-autobiographical. More importantly, both of the main characters, Eliezer and Frederic, become prisoners of war, experience the loss of a love one, and face a bleak future. Ultimately, by taking their respective main characters and showing how imprisonment and personal loss can lead to emptiness, Elie Wiesel and Ernest Hemingway that truly express the hardship of war. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**