Human Nature In Night By Elie Wiesel

Like a tree’s root, which digs deeper to prevent it from toppling, people follow their built-in actions and tap into their survival instincts when dealing with difficult moments. Similarly, Elie Wiesel's Night is a harrowing account of his experience during the Holocaust as it provides a window into how behaviors change to survive, turning to bare instincts. He observes the countless individuals massacred, abandoned, and driven to madness during these intense periods, demonstrating the crumbling of ethics fueled by the urge to survive. In times of distress, human nature transforms to overcome dire situations. Life is like an unpredictable sea: serene in one moment and turbulent and rough in the next. During these intervals, human nature’s true

During this stressful time, many Jews are forced to separate from their group, realistically never seeing them again. They do this in the hope of becoming mentally and physically stronger, as it frees them from the burden of tending to the weak and watching them suffer. When undergoing horrid situations, one must make heart-breaking decisions based on instinct to ensure survival. Personalities make people different. However, during the Holocaust, the Nazis stripped all needs, leaving the Jewish famished and ill. As they lost every item they loved, the prisoners' likeliness, which permitted [individuals] to distinguish between generalized patterns and create connections, was gone due to the dehumanization in the camps (Kauders 214). Because of the restraints surrounding them, they have become a body without a soul, solely working on one thought: survival. Deep into the concentration camp, Elie witnesses horrors for crumbs of bread, hearing an old man cry, “Mier. Mier, my boy, I love it! Don’t you recognize