During slavery in America, many of the slaves lost hope, giving up on their freedom. Night, itself comes to symbolize death and the loss of hope. Elie Wiesel writes about how the horrors of the Holocaust caused him to lose faith in God and humanity. One such horror was the death march, during which many men died, collapsing in the snow after marching day and night. His will to be with his father and his will to survive keep him alive at Auschwitz Wiesel’s first residence. When the SS march the recently arrived Jews past the crematory, Wiesel wants to kill himself. At the critical moment, however, Wiesel utters the prayer for the dead and walks by. Wiesel gives no reason for this inability to commit suicide, and one can reasonable assume that