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Choices In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel is a Fifteen-year-old boy who has had extremely horrible events happen to him and his family. His family and his getting transported to Auschwitz is the start of Elie having no say in the choices and happenings in his life. Once this happened it was really hard for Elie to understand why he was put in the camp and a reason to keep moving forward with or without his father. It is incredibly hard to understand how any of this happened, but the book Night, written by Elie Wiesel, made it even harder to read from someone else’s perspective. It is their story; Elie’s story of having choiceless choices made for him and how he was able to survive through all of it. The biggest decision that was not only made for Elie and his family but …show more content…

Having to stand by and watch this happen once to his father and many times to others was really difficult for him. Elie could have intervened during the punishment but his father would not have wanted him to and Elie could have been injured or killed for trying to stop his father’s punishment. “And he began beating him with an iron bar. I had watched it all happening without moving. I kept silent.” (54) This choiceless choice is really hard to understand did he really have no choices or was he just afraid? If he dies though it would just be another life taken by the soldiers they would not care. Everyone in the camps are just trying to survive to hopefully live long enough to see family or just make it out. In the end, it seems like a choiceless choice because no one should have to pick between their death and being selfless and aiding someone who is to be harmed. Elie is incredibly strong for finding a way to keep his will to survive through all the choiceless choices that have been made for him throughout his …show more content…

Elie having to leave his home because the Germans said so and then get split from his mother and sister knowing full well that they are to be killed with no say is traumatizing. Elie and his father worked within the camp side by side until moresfully his father dies leaving him alone and killing something in Elie. Elie overcomes this when advice is given to him to be selfless for one and he is finally able to start living his life for himself. He started taking ownership of some of his decisions not giving in to all the choiceless choices that the Germans wanted for not only him but the Jews. He ultimately survived for the person he wanted back, the person that was here before the camp took it from him so he took it back and Elie did he took himself

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