Life is Beautiful

The movie Life is Beautiful is related to the book Night Elie Wiesel because they're both set in the same time period (World War II, 1939-1945) Elie's father and Joshua's father both die in concentration camps. In both stories there's a strong bond between the father and the son and they all care for each other.  There's also the Nazis in both stories that sent both of the families to the concentration camps.

The differences between the stories is that Elie is much older than Joshua.  Shlomo dies of sickness but then Guido dies from being shot to death from a Nazi soldier.  Elie has a sister but Joshua is the only child.  When Elie gets to Auschwitz, he's immediatly split from his mother and sister and never sees them ever again, Guido and Joshua are split from Dora but she's still alive at the end of movie.

Life is Beautiful has a more humorous mood throughout in the movie while in the Night book, its very dark and sad.  Guido is very optimistic throughout the movie to Joshua because since Joshua is still young he might believe his father that it's just a game.  Shlomo sadly isn't optimistic to Elie because Elie is old enough to know what's going on so Elie's story is much more sad because Elie has to see the horror.

In Life is Beautiful, life is shown beautiful when Guido and Joshua are in Auschwitz and Guido tells Joshua that this is all a game to keep Joshua happy and so Joshua could have a good time.  Another time Life is beautiful is when Guido meets the love of his life, Guido is very happy whenever he sees Dora, he makes her laugh because he's so humorous.