Life Is Beautiful

     Some similarities between Life is Beautiful and some of the things we read in ELA is that they had camps where many Jews and other types of people went that the Germans didn't like or thought weren't Arian enough. They both had too take trains and were starved for days. They made the men do hard labor and if they couldn't they would be killed. Then after people died in the gas chambers they had to fold all the clothes. Plus old people and children were killed since they couldn't work making them very vulnerable. Families were split up from one another. People resisted especially the main character in life is beautiful he was hiding his kid and sneaked food for his son. Finally is that Germans weren't allowed to talk with Jews. Which in the movie the German doctor couldn't talk to the main character so he had to find ways to talk to his friend before the camp. Some differences about the movie from real life is you couldn't walk around the camp freely. Also the little boy couldn't sit with the German kids since he was dirty and most likely smelled the guards would've known he was a Jew. Another situation that was different was the main character was hiding his son Joshua. This was most likely impossible since guards would go in their rooms to do checks and he hid his son the whole time.

     Mostly the Holocaust was sad especially in the camps. Some things that were similar from the movie that were sad was when they went from the outside to the inside city to inside the camps. You can see how there were people starving. Children and old people dying. Another similar thing that goes with the sad mood was when Guido was carrying Joshua to leave and half way he saw all the dead bodies piled up. Some different moods you wouldn't end up seeing was in the movie also. Some difference in points of veiw. Was Guido and his family, he lied to his kid in a funny way to make sure he wasn't scared. Another was when Guido would do his funny actions especially when he would try to run from the Germans and hid on the wall. He did things happily knowing things were serious.

     Life is shown as beautiful in many ways throughout the film. One of the ways Life is shown as beautiful is when Guido meets this girl and wants to marry her which he ends up doing. Then has kid and gets to own his bookstore which he had to wait a while. This is one aspect of life being beautiful because it's not everyday that you can just say you want something and get to have or do it. Which he ends up doing. Another aspect of life being beautiful is when Guido sacrificed himself. To help hide his son and keep him safe. I think this is an aspect of life being beautiful because this father loves his family so much. That he would die to help keep his son alive which he did do. Which shows how beautiful life is.

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