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 of war, they both lose the person they love most, and they both face a bleak and dismal fate.

Frederic and Eliezer are both prisoners of war but in different ways. Frederic has a strong emotional attachment to the war. "Don't talk about the war," he says after abandoning the front, "it was over...but I did not have the feelin

It is only love that allowed Frederic and Eliezer to survive their prisons. Catherine Barkley is Frederick's true love. "I felt damned lonely and was glad when the train got to Stresa...I was expecting my wife..." (Hemingway 243-244). This quote shows the physical and emotional yearning that Catherine inspires in Frederic. This desire for her is what helps him through the war. Eliezer's love, on the other hand, is directed towards his father. Eliezer feels that his father is his only possesion that the Nazis cannot take from him. "I'll watch over you and then you can watch over me. We won't let each other fall asleep. We will look after each other" (Wiesel 85). The loss of both Eliezer's father and Frederic's fiancee ones is what inevitably leads to a dismal future.

The tragic fall of these two young ch

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