"Night" by Elie Wiesel, and "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

Fate and Faith
Throughout our lives, we find our struggles in life revolve around our faith and fate. Fate, defined as the vital power that predetermines events, destiny, and ultimate end. We find that our faith, in essence our last lifeline, our hope, and only belief; but what happens when these two clash in one's life? In the novel "night" by Elie Wiesel, Weisel's autobiography depicts the riveting horrors of his own experiences spanning from the ghetto to death camps. We find that faith is his only hand in an ever growing dark environment involved in the holocaust, but his unfortunate losses taken by the ultimate power of fate. Corresponding to Night, author Amy Tan of "The Joy Luck Club" tells the story of a group of Chinese women struggling to cope with their American home. Like in Night, we find that in The Joy Luck Club, these Chinese women have their struggles with their past conflicts of faith and faith. The struggle between fate and faith, we see that both authors use this conflict as a vital leg in holding their novels together.
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