Loss Of Survival In Night By Elie Wiesel

Elie and himself are becoming more apart as a result of his lack of involvement. Because Elie's father never engages with him, their relationship suffers and they are not exceptionally close. In conclusion, their distant relationship is caused by Elie’s father not spending enough time with

Wiesel gives many examples of people giving advice to others to stay alive. In the beginning, this shows the mindset of people feeling they could get through the horror of saving others along the way. To set the stage, Elie and his father have just been told to lie about their ages to avoid the furnaces, upon questioning Elie states “ ‘I’m eighteen’. My voice trembling” (Wiesel 33). Continuing with this, Elie, when asked by the SS.

Elie had to focus on himself if he wanted to survive though, his feet were aching but he adapted to the pain and kept running. Elie just wanted to fall to the ground and be done with everything, die. He wanted all the pain and suffering to be over with. But his fathers presence was the only that that stopped him. Elie was his fathers motivation and fuel to keep staying alive.

The prisoners of the camp were sent on a “Death march” where they marched their way to their next destination. Elie and his father lasted the whole journey, the Officers gave them a break when they hit their point and many of the prisoners wanted to use their break to take a nap but little did they know, they would not wake back up from their long-awaited sleep. They would settle down in the snow and die from many different causes like hypothermia or dehydration and or starvation. Elie and his father wanted to nap so they laid down until they noticed all the dead bodies next to them in the snow. They were smart enough to use their strength to go to a nearby shed.

He had had many challenges before this like losing his belief in god and getting separated from people he loved. He had been taking care of his father for a while before he passed. One night as the SS guards were checking the barracks as Elie was trying to take care of his father they told him to be quiet. Elie's father was trying to get him to get him some water instead of soup, however Elie wasn't able to meet those needs and was trying to keep him quiet. The SS officer hit Elie's father across the face with his ballet.

In the coming weeks, the true weight of the situation landed on Elie. In Night, Elie goes as far as to not describe his life during the period after his father's death as, “It no longer mattered anymore” (Wiesel 113). He goes on to say, “Since my father’s death, nothing mattered during that period” (Wiesel 113). While Elie’s father was a responsibility Elie did not wish to bear during the camps, he soon came to find out that without him his life lacked meaning. Without his father, he had lost the one thing he had left that brought him purpose.

His father needed him the most in this moment, but he left him for dead. The younger Elie would’ve sprung up in the defense of his father, after his experiences of the sons in concentration camps he decided to leave his father for a gruesome and brutal

Life in a concentration camp is unimaginably difficult and leaves many with great uncertainty. People must fight hard, have unspeakable grit, and go through life-changing events just to have a chance at the freedom they were unsure would ever come. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, we learn Elie was only 15 when he was taken from his home, left only with his father, and forced into multiple concentration camps throughout Hitler's reign. We’re let in on the unbearable experiences and effects concentration camps had on many of the innocent people forced to try to live life as normal there. Elie overcomes the tragedy and struggles brought on by the situation by changing the way he approaches and experiences life's battles.

In this book Elie speaks of his hardships and how he survived the concentration camps. Elie quickly changed into a sorrowful person, but despite that he was determined to stay alive no matter the cost. For instance, during the death

The heart wrenching and powerful memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel depicts Elie’s struggle through the holocaust. It shows the challenges and struggles Elie and people like him faced during this mournful time, the dehumanization; being forced out of their homes, their towns and sent to nazi concentration camps, being stripped of their belongings and valuables, being forced to endure and witness the horrific events during one of history’s most ghastly tales. In “Night” Elie does not only endure a physical journey but also a spiritual journey as well, this makes him question his determination, faith and strength. This spiritual journey is a journey of self discovery and is shown through Elie’s struggle with himself and his beliefs, his father

Elie Wiesel illustrates survival of the fittest by showing that people are willing to lie in order to survive. In the book Night, Elie gives the reader an example of how people are willing to lie in order to survive by lying about his age, during the selection, in order to not be killed and to stay with his father. During selection a man warns Elie about getting through the selection by telling him to say he is eighteen: Hey, kid, how old are you?

In Night. People in concentration camps tried to protect each other but struggled very hard to do so. Sometimes, they barely had a chance to begin with. For example, Elie witnessed someone kill himself because they already committed all he had left to taking care of a family member and was stuck. “A terrible thought crossed my mind: What if he had wanted to be rid of his father?

Wake up, they’re going to throw you out the side!” (pg 99) shows the reader that midway through the story Elie still really cared about his father and did not want him to die. He still had hope that his dad could survive. However, this quote at the end of the story, “I no longer thought of my father,” (pg 113) showed that he lost all hope and only thought about himself and his own health due to the circumstances. Also, Elie was not the only son going through

No response. I would have screamed if I could have. He was not moving"(98).This is an example of how Elie cared about his father and he is feared that he would lose him. Over

As time progresses, he becomes confined to his bed and cannot move. Eliezer brings him soup and coffee, but at the same time he regrets it and thinks to himself how he should leave his father and conserve his strength. The other prisoners beat his father and steal his food. His father had dysentery so he is always thirsty, but it is dangerous to give it to him. Eliezer tries to get medical aid, but the doctors will not help him because he is an old man.