Imagine being in a concentration camp where they only had a ration of soup and bread for food every day, and all of the valuables a person once had were taken. During the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel was in a concentration camp and created a book about his horrifying experience. Night described the terror of both the author and others, whose goal was to survive. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, uses anecdotes and apostrophes to demonstrate how faith helps them keep going and how to stay strong. One of the main reasons for the memoir is that Elie wanted to share his story; he did this by using anecdotes to show how faith helps them keep going. Faith is one of the main reasons people survive and keep going with life. Elie Wiesel shows up at night when he says, “‘Don't lose hope. You have already eluded the worst …show more content…
Wiesel utilizes anecdotes and apostrophes to show faith and how it helps him get through it. Wiesel talks about how faith in something continues to live on. “I'll fall in love. A small red flame... t... Death enveloped me; it suffocated me. It stuck to me like glue. I felt I could touch it. The idea of dying—of ceasing to be—began to fascinate me. To no longer exist in the world. I no longer feel the excruciating pain in my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing. To break rank, to let myself slide to the side of the road... My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me. He was running next to me, out of breath, out of strength, and desperate. I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his sole support.” (Wiesel 86-87). This shows that Wiesel was going to kill himself, but didn’t because of his faith in his father. Also, his faith in everything else is gone. Wiesel illustrates the significance of having faith in providing the necessary strength and