Night and Hotel Rwanda Similarities Essay - 1009 Words

Night and Hotel Rwanda Similarities Throughout the course of humanity, we have experienced terrible transgressions in our society. Although they took place sixty-one years apart, similar horrific events from the Holocaust (1933-1945) and the Rwandan Genocide (1994) occurred. In Night, the Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state sponsored persecution and murder of approximately 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis believed they were â€Å"racially superior† so they killed the Jews because they were deemed â€Å"inferior† and needed to be eliminated. Hotel Rwanda tackles a recent event in history where the Hutu extremists of Rwanda initiated a terrifying campaign of genocide, massacring approximately†¦show more content†¦Another similarity is that the Jews and Tutsis were transported in crowded wagons or cattle cars. There was a horrific experience in Night when the Jews had to fit 80-100 people in the cattle cars with temperatures ranging from below zero degrees in the winter, and up to 108 degrees in the summer. Not only did they have to deal with the weather, they also had little to no room to use the restroom and had to go in the corner of the wagon to relieve themselves. When Elie stated, â€Å"The doors were nailed up; the way back was finally cut off. The world was a cattle wagon hermetically sealed† (Wiesel 24)., he was explaining the prison like life he had to live for approximately two years. In Hotel Rwanda, Paul sends his wife, kids, and some Tutsis to escape from Rwanda in the back of a truck. H e thinks it is the best decisions for his family. However, when a pack of Hutus approach the truck, they find out that the Tutsis are in the back of it and states to Tatianna (Pauls wife), â€Å"What is your name? Move! Get out or Ill shoot you.†Tatianna cannot think or control her emotions whatsoever when her and her children are trapped in a wagon with approximately eighty other Tutsis. Even though it is not as tightly packed as the Holocaust cattle cars, the Jews and the Tutsis both experienced the same trauma of dealing with the enormous amount of people in a tight space, leaving family members behind, and the many experiences of almost getting murdered. TheyShow MoreRelatedThe Terrible Acts of Rwandan Genocide1296 Words   |  6 Pagesconsisted of the decimation of one single race, the Jews. This solemn event is very similar (and also quite different) to another event that took place only four thousand miles away. Like the Holocaust, this event is was a genocide a nd it took place at Rwanda in 1994. This genocide was between the Hutus and Tutsis. These two groups have a long background with each other that consisted of civil wars, switches in power and superiority, and tension. It began when the Europeans put the Tutsis in a superiorRead MoreThe Movie Is Based On A True Story About What Had Happen1233 Words   |  5 Pagestrue story about what had happen in Rwanda 1994. Paul Rusesabagina is the manager of the Sabena Hotel in Kigali. He lives happily with his wife, brother-in-law, and their children. One day that happy place they all knew changed for the worse. Massacre struck, the Hutu tribe took over after assassinating the president which cause great calamity to the land. The country went through a phase of madness, it seems as if the world turn their backs on the people of Rwanda. While being under arrest, Paul tookRead MoreOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 Pageslived, how they earned their livings, and their unprecedented ability to move about the globe. Moya and McKeown set the patterns of migration in the twentieth century against those extending back millennia, and they compare in imaginative ways the similarities and differences among diverse flows in different geographical areas and across ethnic communities and social strata. They consider not only the nature, volume, and direction of migrant movements motivated primarily by opportunities for economic