There are many similarities between "Night" and "Life is Beautiful." This starts with the "Father-Son" bond, both father's death directly before liberation, and the hope that they would both in fact leave the concentration camp alive. You can really see the father-son bond in the movie because Guido goes to great length to cover his son from the evil that surrounded him. Even on the way to his death, he was brave and looked his son in the eyes to insure him, he was going to be all right. Just like in night, Guido dies almost directly before the liberation and hope stays with Guido that he will find his wife and son, to escape the concentration camp.
Some of the differences between "Night" and "Life if Beautiful" are really just the mood and tone. If you generalize the plots of both stories they are basically the same, Jews are being separated into concentration camps and a family is divided. A man struggles to keep both himself and his son alive. But when you get into the atmosphere of the movie you find that "Life is Beautiful" is a much lighter tone, having many jokes and the main character being a sort of jester. When you look at "Night", you find that it is very solemn.
Life is beautiful throughout the book because even though Guido knows that they are being taken away to a camp, he stays happy and makes a game to protect his son. He knows they are likely to be hurt, but he says that the ride to the train station and the train ride itself are both birthday gifts for his son. He also tells his son that he got the last available tickets. At the beginning of the movie, the color of everything was amazing. It was bright and fast, however you can see as the movie progressed to the final scene exactly how destroyed everyone was. The Jews were just limping out of the camp slowly, and there was very little variation in the colors until the end. When Joshua reached his mother, you could see the field behind them, and life seemed to be "Beautiful" again.
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