11 million people endured a violent murder at the hands of Hitler's Nazis without doing anything wrong. Around europe Jewish people suffered and slaughtered like animals under the Nazi and their concentration camps lived a life of death and horror, but some survived conquering death and abuse, resisting the odds and surviving. One of these people went by the name Elie Wiesel. Wiesel survived the oppression and insurmountable obstacles pushed in front of him by the Nazis because of his undying stamina.
Foremost Elie Wiesel shows a tremendous amount of physical stamina throughout the memoir by refusing to give in to death and by battling through tough circumstances. Primarily in accordance Elies possession of physical stamina shown during the forced movement to Gleiwitz proves his strength. Wiesel recalls, “Chilled to the bone, our throats
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For instance they say that he lost his stamina when death appealed to him on the march. Wiesel says, “The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain in my foot”. (86) Critics say that because death appealed to him that he had lost mental stamina and that he had become weak. His mental stamina faltered and he lost some hope. Even more they say he lost spiritual stamina. Wiesel explains, “I was alone, terribly alone in a world without god”. (68) He had given up on his faith and no longer had his core beliefs and values. But however you are not defined by your thoughts because everyone has bad thoughts and impure wishes, the thoughts you choose to act on are what define you. Elie Wiesel may have thought about death in an appealing way but he had the mental stamina to resist that urge and keep fighting. Also he eventually lost spiritual but in the place where it used to occupy he gained mental stamina, Wiesel believed in his strength and he relied on