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Night A Memior By Ellie Wiesel

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Decisions do not change your chance. In Night, a Memior written by Ellie Wiesel in 1958, a young boy by the name Ellie Wiesel suffers through the Holocaust with his father Shlomo Wiesel. Ellie Wiesel first experiences the Nazi party after being evacuated from his house and put in a ghetto. At this time Jewish people did not know the motive of the Nazi party. After being in the ghetto for a few months Ellie, his father, his mother, and sister where forcefully taken from their home and put in concentration camps. Ellie wiesel survived the holocaust out of pure luck. Because him and his father were saved from the gas chambers due to the Germans needing to evacuate the camp.
Ellie and his father were selected to go to the gas chambers but the quickly …show more content…

For example Author writes, “-How old are you, kid?" he asked. "Eighteen," I replied automatically. I could have said sixteen. Or even fifteen. But I had to say something. The officer left me alone and moved on down the line.-” (Night )
This shows that Ellie himself did not know why he said he was eighteen, rather then fourteen, fifteen, or even sixteen. He did not know why but he did and by luck. With the lack of knowledge Wiesel had, his answer was ultimately a coinflip and he happened to get it right. In other words Ellie’s decision was still completely up to luck and he got an important decision right.
Ellie Wiesel survived the Holocaust due to luck, though hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered, Ellie wiesel was among the few thousand that survived. In summary, Ellie surviving the selection to the gas chambers, the frigid snow ridden journey from Auschwitz to Buchenwald, and surviving the wrath of the SS officers was only possible with his luck and pure chance. In the world today your choices cannot outweigh chance and luck. An individual who is born into a higher class with more support will most likely be more successful then a person who is born into a lower class who works just as hard. This is the failure of the American dream in America. Not everyone has equal chances to succeed and not everyone is given the same opportunities. And in Night it was not up to the Jewish people to decide whether they survived or not. As a society after witnessing the horrors of the holocaust we as a country should give more opportunities to people and support people who need

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