Throughout the darkest days of Night, there is still hope for Elie Wiesel. At the end of the Holocaust, over 60,000 Jews were liberated by US soldiers and more than 90,000 Jews escaped death camps. For them, there was still hope in the universe. In Elie’s memoir, he struggles with his belief in God and the intertwining existence of hope in the universe. Selection was an essential component to life in Auschwitz, where all the healthy survived and the weak were sent to die. Elie was on the cusp of starvation and his father was a man far past his prime. Elie immediately passed selection, as he was young. His father, on the other hand, needed further inspection. Elie’s father passed a spoon and knife to his son, which Elie assumed was his inheritance.