Discussion Questions For Night By Elie Wiesel

The decisions people make can affect them in a positive way or a negative way. I believe that Elieʻs choices have both sides. In this book NIGHT by Elie Weisel it was hard to survive as a Jew in these times as the story explains. As a young teen like Elie, he had a lot of peer pressure with Jews and the SS. Elie had it rough with being away from home and separated from his mother and sister. Elie was left with his father as they survived together until Elieʻs father died.
One choice Elie made was when it was time to speak up he told Dr. Mengele that his own occupation was a farmer and he was 15 not 13. Because of this lie that Elie made, him and his father were sent to the left then they ended up at the camps. It says “Your age? He [Dr. Mengele] asked, perhaps trying to sound paternal. “I’m eighteen.” My voice was trembling. In good health? "Yes." Your profession? Tell him that I was a student? "Farmer," I heard myself saying” Chapter 3. This says how Elie lied about his age and this was a positive choice because they were sent to camps instead of being cremated. But this was negative because now they will suffer time in camps.

Elie did struggle with the reasoning that his father is most certainly dying with dysentery. Elie goes from being embarrassed and rather ashamed of his father at first, to then try to keep his father through one more day and one more night. Elie decides to take care of his father. Until his father Chlomo passes away. He almost feels "a sense of relief." As it states "But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like-free at last!" Chapter 8, pg.