Mikayla Teter 3/5/24 Night Essay Oprah Winfrey once said, “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” This is the best way to describe how Elie Wiesel survived the Holocaust. Wiesel was faced with many challenges during this time, during the true story Night Wiesel was separated from all his family but his father. Together, Wiesel and his father went through a year of concentration camps where they saw friends and family die in front of them. While it would have been just as easy to give up, they stayed positive and kept on fighting every day and that is what got them through each day. Throughout Wiesel’s time in concentration camps, he was pushed about as far as he could go. …show more content…
Where is God’s mercy? Where’s the God of God? How can I believe, how can anyone believe in this God of mercy?” (Wiesel, 1958) By this point, Wiesel had lost almost all hope in God, because everything that God was supposed to help with had not happened. Not to mention how Wiesel’s father was ready to give up on life and leave his only son behind to fend for himself. This mentally tore apart Wiesel. On the same note of mental struggles, Wiesel started the book mentally tough and unbreakable. However, this started to change when Wiesel was told that anyone with a gold tooth was to visit the dentist and have it removed. This frightened Wiesel, but he was able to get out of it by saying he was sick and did not want to infect anyone else. After procrastination, the dentist's office had to close due to malpractice. Once Wiesel heard the news, he was relieved. “I felt no pity for him. In fact, I was pleased with what was happening to him: my gold crown was safe. It could be useful to me one day, to buy something, some bread or even time to live. At that moment in time, all that mattered to me was my daily bowl of soup, my crust of stale bread. The bread, the soup, those were my entire