Examples Of Survival In Night By Elie Wiesel

If you had to pick three traits for yourself in order to survive a life threatening event over long periods of time, what would you choose? The book Night was written by Elie Weisel after he survived through the holocaust. Elie, his family, and his whole town was captured when he was just fifteen years old. Him and his dad were the only ones who survived in his family until his dad died of sickness right before Elie was freed. In this Essay three of Elie’s survival traits will be shown, bravery, perseverance, and adaptability.

One of the many ways Elie prevailed through the holocaust is because he had bravery. They had just finished their march from Buma to Glewitz. They had been in Gleiwitz for 3 days at that point. Later in the day they

The day was sunday and Elie’s Kommando was not required to work. The Kommando was just the group of other prisoners that Elie lived with. Elie’s kommando was required to go to the depot which was just a warehouse with random stuff in it. Idek, one of the Kapos,guards told them to do something, or else they would hear from him again. Eventually Elie and the rest of his kommando got bored of huddling around and took turns strolling around the warehouse in hopes of finding something valuable like bread that someone would of forgotten. While Elie was walking around he heard noises coming from a small room in the back. As he moved closer he caught a glimpse of Idek and a young polish girl half naked. Once Elie realized what was happenng he started laughing. Idek jumped and turned then saw Elie. Elie tried to run but it was as if his feet were nailed to the ground and he couldn’t move. Idek then grabbed him by the throat and threatened him. A little later there was a roll call, then a kapo,guard announced that inmates don’t have the right to interfere with a guards affairs. Then they called out Elie’s identification number, A-7713. They then brought out a crate and started whipping elie for what he saw. As the Kapo was whipping elie he was also screaming at him, “I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip."One!...Two!... " he was counting. He took his time between

Elie and 1000’s of other people were still on their march to a different camp very far away. Zalman, Elie’s friend was running next to him. Zalman then said that his stomach was about to burst, either from to much running or the lack of food he had. He then fell to the ground and that was the last Elie had seen him ever again. He either got trampled by everyone behind or got finished off by the guards at the back of the line. Elie had to focus on himself if he wanted to survive though, his feet were aching but he adapted to the pain and kept running. Elie just wanted to fall to the ground and be done with everything, die. He wanted all the pain and suffering to be over with. But his fathers presence was the only that that stopped him. Elie was his fathers motivation and fuel to keep staying alive. If elie collapsed, his father would also. A little later a guard announced that they had ran 20 kilometers since they had left the camp. At that point all of their legs moved mechanically, not even feeling their feet plunge into the cold snow on the ground. Just after 20 kilometers they had came across an abandoned village to rest for the next day of running. Then, while running during their march to a new camp Elie said this in the narration, “When I became conscious of myself again, I tried to slow my pace somewhat. But there was no way. These human waves were rolling forward and