The actions that one may make, although necessary, will leave them with regrets. These are the choiceless choices many people are faced with throughout their lives, especially Jews during the Holocaust. In the memoir Night, the main protagonist, Elie Weisel, encounters many choices where he must make decisions thoughtfully and quickly. While neither outcome may benefit Elie Weisel, if he does not make a choice, the consequences are much superior. For Weisel, he must make choiceless choices associated with surviving,faith in God, and living with his father. Surviving in the death camps was difficult and strenuous. For Wiesel, he had to make tough choices that would determine his survival in the camp.As stated by Weisel, “ It didn’t take long to learn the reason for our summons: our gold teeth were to be extracted”(51). At this moment, Weisel had the decision to have his gold teeth …show more content…
The faith of most Jews at the ghettos and camps was the faith of God. Throughout the memoir, Jews question God's presence and at one point Weisel even writes the following: What are You, my God? I thought angrily. How do You compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance? What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery? (66) As you can see, all the things that Jews went through gave them every reason not to believe that there was even a God. However, earlier in the memoir, there was a sign of irony when Akiba Drummer stated “‘ God is testing us. He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming our basic instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if He punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more…”(45). Akiba Drummer was, however, in for a surprise, when he realized all the things that they were to go through in the