Night by Elie Wiesel tells about the struggles Elie goes to go through as a Jewish person during the Holocaust. While being sent to many different concentration camps, Elie experiences countless terrible situations and sees that some of the prisoners become cruel when given leadership roles within the camps. Many people had lost all civility they had in an effort to stay alive, sacrificing others for their own good. Elie manages to hold onto his decency through all of this, though, by helping out others within the camp occasionally and supporting his father whenever he could. Elie tries to keep his father awake when they are in the shed, resting from the running they had been forced to endure. “...It’s dangerous to fall asleep in the snow. One falls asleep forever…” (88) Elie’s father tells him this just a few minutes earlier and remembering his words, Elie tries to tell it to a man resting nearby. Elie has no emotional connection to this man at all, and yet he still tries to save him from the impending death he will suffer from falling asleep. …show more content…
“Several SS men rushed to find me, creating such confusion that a number of people were able to switch over to the right…” (96) Elie was healthy enough that he could have passed the selection without the distraction but instead of leaving his father to die, he risks his own life to help save his father and many others from death. Someone who was cruel would not give a second thought to anyone and would leave them to their fate. A cruel person would likely never go out of their way to save someone who might be close to