In night, Elie Wiesel, tells the story of his time in the holocaust and all the horrors that came with it. Throughout the novel, Elie Wiesel portrays a claim of saying death is not the only answer, but it is one. If they choose death, which many men did in the novel, it is the easiest way out. However, you could continue living and see what the future holds for you which is the one Elie Wiesel chose. The events in chapter 5 support the claim by telling how a young boy and relived himself before the end of his life before dying of an embarrassing death. This supports the claim because he took the easy way out of reliving himself just too have the few seconds of his stomach feeling better before getting trampled to death and killed by the hundreds of men taking their lives a bit farther to death. Elie Wiesel tried to convince him to try and hold it but he refused to go on. “‘I can’t go on ….’ ‘Make an effort Zalman…try….’ ‘I can’t go on’ he lowered his pants and fell to the ground.” …show more content…
His will to live had vanished and crumbled from being put down, beaten, and stripped of his dignity. Therefore, the man was just a poor being ready to die, his name was Meir Katz. Elie Wiesel ‘s father, Shlomo Wiesel, tried to convince him not to give in not to die and he kept crying out over and over to not give in but the man was too weak. “ ‘ Don’t give in!’ my father tried to encourage him ‘You must resist! Don’t lose faith in yourself!’ But Meir Kratz only groaned in response: ‘I can’t go on, Shlomo!...I can’t help it… I can’t go