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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. …show more content…

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.

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In this book Elie speaks of his hardships and how he survived the concentration camps. Elie quickly changed into a sorrowful person, but despite that he was determined to stay alive no matter the cost. For instance, during the death

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This is important to remember because when they arrive at the camp, everything changes. After the Germans contained the Jews in the ghettos, the whole community was deported to Auschwitz. No one had ever heard that name. Before they get sent there, on page nineteen, Elie's father starts to cry, and Elie says it’s his first time seeing his dad cry. As soon as they got there, a man told Elie not to say he was young enough, and this is pretty much the start of how Elie changed throughout the book.

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They could not lie down or sit because there is not enough room. This technically would be a choice because they probably would all sitting if they could. However, the choice is already made for them since there is not enough room to actually sit somewhere. They have the choice to escape and die or stay and die, of course they do not know that most of them would die if they were to stay.

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Elie Wiesel’s Metamorphosis “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith for- ever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never” (pg 36).

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Yet by the time him and Elie had started to become accustomed to living in the concentration camps 2 main things started to change, one being his father’s motivation to be a leader and role model for others which started to fade after a few weeks in the camps. The other being that once Elie’s father’s physical abilities started to become poor Elie could no longer look up to his father as role model he had always

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In the book “Night” Elie Wiesel did have a hard time making the decision he made. For example, Elie says “The choice was in our hands, for once we could decide our own fate. I did not want to be separated from my father, after all we have been through, now was not the time to separate.” (Wiesel 82). Being left with the choice Elie had to make would have been hard to do myself.

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Elie 's inaction or inability to help his father and his guilt for not doing so helped Elie to shape the person he has become now is because he kept on realizing his stand on the situation on the harsh behavior towards his father. As he starts to live more with his father he became started to realize how important he was to him and how important he is for him. In the book Night, Chapter 7, when Elie and his after were on the cattle car he said"My father had huddled near me, draped in his blanket, shoulders laden with snow. And what if he were dead as well? I called out to him.

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The millions of elders, adults, teens, children, and babies were forced to the loss of their innocence during the Holocaust. “They took our hair off with clippers, and shaved off all the hair on our bodies.” (Wiesel, 1960, page 33) This was one of the reasons they lost their innocence. At such a young age, Elie had lost his identity as his own individual human being.

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In the beginning of Elie’s experience, he gets the choice to abandon the ghetto and go with the family’s former maid to a safe shelter. He chose to stay because Elie would have been separated from his parents and little sister. This choice had a negative impact, but also a positive one. The negative side is that Elie’s family stayed in the ghettos, and then the concentration camps. At the time, no one could believe the rumors about the Nazis.

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Elie and his dad both lied about their age and were sent to the same line. The felt relived because they ended up together, but then found out they were destined to burn by an SS member. “Poor devils, you are heading for the crematorium (Wiesel 32).” In addition, babies were thought to

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Elie Wiesel was 15 years old when he was sent to a concentration camp. From the text it says”He was starved and badly treated. ” When people were sent to these camps they weren’t treated like they were people. The Nazis lost sight of who they were and just saw them as the Jews that need to be killed or put to work till they die. The text says” After the war Wiesel went to France.

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Elie and his father were told to lie about their age. “No you are forty, and eighteen!” a man who was trying to help them. (Wiesel, Elie, and Marion Wiesel 3). The process they had to go through before receiving new clothing was referred to as the “sauna” ("'Fashion in Auschwitz' 8).

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Think of a circumstance where you were so hungry and thirsty, that you did not even care to think about your father anymore. That circumstance goes against common father-son relationships. The common father-son motif is where the father looks out and cares for the son. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, he explains why the circumstances around a father-son relationship can change their relationship, whether it 's for the better or the worse. Since the book is about the life of Elie in a Nazi concentration camp, the circumstances were harsh and took a toll on multiple father-son relationships.

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