As people we try to have good morals but, when faced with a horrific event, such as the Holocaust our morals tend to change. The memoir Night is a true story based on Elie Wiesel, a boy who survived the Holocaust. Elie and his father, Shlomo, went through almost two years of torture in different concentration camps until his father eventually passed away. Elie had to endure so much pain at a young age. In these camps, the dark and angry side of humanity was truly exposed. The Jewish people were treated like animals, and their lives had no value. One event that shows the angry side of human nature is when Elie had surgery on his foot and two days later was forced to run over 40 miles, nonstop. Wiesel uses setting, tone, and his point of view to describe how horrific this event was. …show more content…
Wiesel tells us how he and all of the other prisoners were forced to run. He also told us how he and the rest of his block formed a rank and they had to march through the cold snowy night most of them did not even have shoes. On page 82, Wiesel wrote, “I ran outside to look for him. The snow was piled high, the blocks’ windows veiled in frost. Holding a shoe in my hand, for I could not put it on my foot, I ran, feeling neither pain nor cold.” This describes how horrific the Nazis’s were to the Jewish prisoners by making them run through the cold snowy night nonstop. Even though they were already extremely unhealthy and