Good And Evil In Night By Elie Wiesel

Eat. Drink. Sleep. Breathe. These are everyday functions that a person typically experiences throughout their lives. While good and evil thoughts and actions occur in everyone’s lives, some people may experience more of the good, or more of the evil. The luxurious fantasy to sit on the couch and sleep with a soda and a slice of pizza whenever one would like is a great ability, but not everyone has a life as comfortable as that. Some people are forced into a troubled life that takes over their humanity and childhood. Different actions and words can change someone's life for the good, and for the evil. Struggling through the hard times is something that all people have to experience, but some are able to push through and find the good. In Night

In Night the main character, Eliezer, lives through watching his peers suffer and die, yet it affects him in a good way, for the better. While being there at Elie’s concentration camp and looking at innocent people die is awful, Elie is able to benefit from the good in the death of some of the other members from his concentration camps. When Eliezer’s father was suffering and close to death, Elie would have to give up his rations of bread and water to help keep his father alive. Members of the camp tell Eliezer to keep his food and live for himself, but Elie does not want to be a self-centered person, so he tries to keep his father alive. Living at the concentration camp, with the harsh conditions one lives through it is hard enough to keep oneself alive.“I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched, I might perhaps have found something like-free at last!” (106). After Elie’s father dies he has no emotions even though he wants to feel sorry. Eliezer's lack of tears and feelings when his father suffered to death show that the elimination of his family member

While an average person eats three full meals a day, Eliezer and his father only eat a ration of bread and a small bowl of soup a day. When they are starved, Elie and his father lack energy and the ability to stay strong. Eliezer’s concentration camps only receive a certain amount of food that they must share amongst all of them. “I was hungry and thirsty. I must have been very dirty and exhausted, to judge from the appearance of the others. The bread we had brought from Buna had long since been devoured. And who knew when we would be given another ration?” (91). When Elie compares his hunger and thirst to his energy, it proves the idea of their lack of food being evil. Eliezer and his father receiving only two meals a day causes them hunger, stress, weakness, and irritability. With no access to food, none of the traits that come from Eliezer's forced starvation benefit him for the better, for they are all evil. Lia from Wintergirls experiences a similar situation since she has anorexia. When Lia does not consume large amounts of food for a long time, she can relate to Eliezer. At dinner, Lia’s parents try and have her eat, but she refuses to. Lia’s starvation due to her anorexia affects her for the evil because consuming no food gives her a lack of nutrients which is affecting Lia’s health. Not eating causes Lia to be self conscious