Many characters had to overcome many different challenges and problems in their environment. The characters had many different ways of coping with these problems and conflicts. In the book Night the characters have to respond and overcome the struggles in their environment, the main Character Elie had to overcome many problems in the book such as getting separated from his mother and he had to go through his own father dying. Many of the characters had to overcome many problems. Some of the characters overcame the problems in a good, healthy way but others struggled. Elie had to overcome many problems in the book such as him losing belief in god and him getting separated from his own mom. In the book Elie says “ Yet that was the moment i parted from my mother”(wiesel 27). Elie was able to overcome this by staying with his father and getting transported. Other characters weren't able to overcome the challenges in a good way. Some characters chose violence on others or even on themselves. Some characters just gave up and were punished for it. One character even killed his own dad just for a single slice of bread. “Meir, Meir my boy, don't you reconize mw, i'm your father you're hurting me .. …show more content…
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. The SS officer ordered Elie to go to his bed. “Then I had to go to bed, I climbed into my bunk, above my father, who was still alive”(Wiesel 106). He had to overcome climbing over his own father that was