Night By Elie Wiesel Analysis

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When responding to competing demands, an individual must choose which is best for their own interests, or find a way to compromise to meet both in equal amounts. Throughout the events of Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, there are many instances of him dealing with demands that compete with each other. Many of them were life or death decisions, and all of them impacted nearly every decision he made in Auschwitz. One of his biggest conflicts was his faith and his own survival. Various instances during the events of the memoir forced Wiesel into deciding whether his faith was more important than his survival. The most memorable being Wiesel’s decision to not fast during Yom Kippur, at the expense of a “great void opening” (Wiesel 69) within him. In