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Character Sketch Of Daniel In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Daniel, from Daniel’s Story by Carol Matas is someone you should look up to. Daniel is someone you should look up to because he’s intelligent, sneaky, and most of all caring. Daniel needs to have these character traits to survive the Nazi’s. Daniel goes on a roller coaster that isn’t so thrilling. His horrific adventure will bring out these character traits in Daniel’s fight to survive. My first reason why Daniel is someone you should look up to is because he’s intelligent. For example, Daniel told his Father, “Slap your cheeks, father. Bite your lips.” This demonstrates Daniel is intelligent because if Daniel and his father didn’t make it past the Nazi’s medical inspection, they probably would have died. Also, when Daniel was in his secret …show more content…

One way Daniel resembles he’s sneaky is at Auschwitz when he sees Erika playing in the band. Daniel recognizes that Erika is depressed so he figures Erika thinks everyone in there family is dead. Daniel knows he needs to get Erika’s attention so she won’t give up. While working that days he sets up a little ball of cloth and plans to throw it at Erika to get her attention. While walking back Daniel spots Erika and does a little twitch with his arm and hits Erika. Erika sees father and Daniel. This explains Daniel is sneaky because he would have gotten killed if a S.S. Officer saw Daniel do it. That is sneaky. Also, Daniel worked for the resistance at Auschwitz. He learned he’d do a death-risking job of taking pictures of the gas-chambers and bodies burning at Auschwitz. Daniel takes the risk and here is what happens, “ I took the camera out of its case and made sure the exposure was such that the flames would look like a bright white background and the blackened bodies would show through clearly. I took three pictures before I put the camera back.” Daniel later took pictures of the gas chambers and returned the camera. This illustrates Daniel is sneaky because again, he put his life on the line for a sneaky job. Daniel had to be sneaky because the German Officer’s eyes were burning holes through the Jews. This was a practically impossible job for Daniel to take these pictures. Therefor, he had to be

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