Wiesel and Douglass

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

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