Farewell to Manzanar and Night are both novels about a child whose family is forced out of their home during Word War II by a government who detains them against their will while discriminating against their ethnic group. Losing their Civil Rights and freedom due to no fault of their own with no recourse of action to prove they had not done anything wrong was a horrible mistake which was made without any regards to how they would survive and rebuild their lives.
Similarly, both families move to camps causing separation from family, hardships, and loss of jobs. They were both dependent on the government for their basic needs as they were forced to leave their personal things behind. Both Jeanne's family and Eliezer's didn't understand why…show more content… The Japanese-Americans in Farewell to Manzanar were detained out of fear of the American government that they would help the Japanese after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and in the novel Night, the German government headed by Hitler, was trying to exterminate the Jewish race. Jeanne's family was sent to an internment camp, given a place to live, were given basic needs, and they were never physically harmed. While Eliezer and his father were sent to a concentration camp, dehumanized, beaten, not given the basic needs for survival, and living with the fear of death throughout each day.
While the Japanese-American families in Farewell to Manzanar were living in harsh, unfair conditions, and had problems, they were in an internment camp and didn't see people shot, burned, or physically tortured to death. They could freely walk around their camp without the fear of being killed. On the other hand, in the novel Night, the conditions were not even humane for the Jews. They were giving starvation rations and had no freedom at all. They saw people starving to death and being called up to be killed. They had no hope of survival, or hope to ever return to their former
