Night and Manzanar Essay Adversity; difficulties and misfortune one might have. Adversity is apart of everyone’s daily lives, it is something that cannot truly be prevented. Two characters from two seperate books, Night by Elie Wiesel and Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki, had many difficulties and obstacles in their way, but they survived. The book Night, by Elie Wiesel is about a young boy named Elie separated from his family during the Holocaust. Elie experienced the most dramatic and horrifying events from beatings, murders, hangings, and cremations as a young boy. The book Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki is about a young Japanese girl who is put into a concentration camp in the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Although both Elie and Jeanne experienced hardships, Elie lost hope in humanity and had a great downhill, “the idea of dying 's, ceasing to be, began to fascinate me.” (Wiesel 86). Elie was taken and stripped from his rights as a human at the age of 14. Elie witnessed the most tragic events ever recorded in history, Elie lost hope in humanity along the way but he was one of very few to survive. “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears,” (Wiesel 112). Elie had been dramatized by the things he had witnessed he didn’t have any tears or fear left in him. He was broken. Elie’s father was the only one that kept Elie from giving up, but his father died. Elie’s world shattered around