For many people, they have to put themselves above all others in order to have a hope of life. They have to take the resources they can, while they can, which can make them feel guilty and selfish. Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a autobiography about Elie’s life during the holocaust. It shows how his friends and family were affected by the Nazi regime trying to kill them, the selection process where at a glance, half of his family got sent to die. It tells about the daily tasks he did in Auschwitz, and those he met in the death camp. The inhuman conditions at the camp, the death marches, and his father’s death taught him the importance of self preservation. Their natural instincts to live, even at the cost of themselves, friends, and family, was needed to live in the concentration camps, and the ghettos. …show more content…
Moishe the Beadle and the other foreign jews get taken to the forest in cattle cars, where they are forced to slave all day digging large holes with no idea what they would be used for, but learned soon that they would become their graves. Moshie is saved “by a miracle . He [is] wounded” and plays dead after being shot “in the leg and left for dead.” (Weisel 6) He laid there watching his friends dying, babies being used as field sport, and the apathetic soldiers barely moving except for the recoil of their guns. All at the cost of his mental health and his will to live all together, just in the hopes that he could leave and warn the remaining