Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel

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Do you have what it takes to survive harsh times? In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, him and his family travel to the concentration camps expecting something good to happen. But, instead when Elie arrives all that he expected wasnt true. Families were getting separated as well as people were dying. Suffering leaves behind the person Elie is meant to be because of inhumane decisions that left him starving, losing hope in God, and having a completely different identity. After leaving Sighet, Elie and his family arrive to the concentrations camps, he realized that it was worse then they thought. From the stench of the burning flesh to the thick black smoke, Elie knew that it was over for him and his father. They were forced into bunks with hundreds of other people. People were willing to kill each other for food. The food that they were serving was only bread and little portions of soup, which wasnt very filling. The killing of many people questioned if Elie was even going to survive. No matter what people did, if an officer wanted to kill you, you were going to be killed. Hundreds and …show more content…

Elie had lost faith since he had left home. He had thought that God was unjusted. Elie had also stopped praying which led to him think that God was uncaring so he didnt believe in him anymore. He was also blaming God for killing innocent men, women, and kids. After months and years of suffering, Elies father was having to deal with dysentry which is a bacteria infection which affects the intenstines and causes diarrhea. His father was begging Elie for water and Elie had refused at first. He knew that the water wasnt clean so he tried to force his father to eat the soup. However after convincing and convincing, Elie loses hope and eventually his father dies. Speaking of his father, Elie and his father became close in the camp as they wanted to be close to each