Everything is a choice. Everything is a choice, from what you got to eat in the morning to believing in God. In the book, Night by Elie Wiesel, each choice was a choice of life and death. All decisions people make change their lives forever, no matter how big or small. Elie’s lying, staying, and leaving left him to be living today, but what if. What if he chose the other way? Lying is sometimes mandatory to stay alive. In this quote, Elie has to lie about his age, and his father’s age because another prisoner told them to say that to survive. “Fifteen.” “No. You’re eighteen.” “But I’m not,” I said. “I’m fifteen.” “Fool. Listen to what I say.”...”No.” The man now sounded angry. “...Do you hear? Eighteen and forty.” (Wiesel 30). Elie had to