Imagine if you found yourself in such an awful situation that everyone around you is slowly beginning to die, or being murdered right in front of you. You know there is nothing you can do about it, and if you try to do anything about it, it can threaten your own life. This is the exact situation that the author of the book Night, Elie Wiesel, was in. He lived through the Holocaust and made it out free and alive after such awful experiences he was put through. Wiesel defines and explains exactly what it feels like and how important it is to connect with those around us during tough times. A meaningful theme that Wiesel demonstrates thoroughly throughout the memoir Night is the power that finding strength through human connections has because …show more content…
Right before selection, Elie and two of his friends, who he had worked with, Tibi and Yossi, did not believe they would make it through selection. However, their mindset changed as soon as Tibi spoke up. “Let’s stay together, it will make us stronger” (71). The three boys became positive that all three of them would stick together every minute and provide strength for each other, even if they felt weak, they had to be there for each other. They had to use each other for support during a time that none of them were sure they would even live through. In addition, a hopeful Pole in charge of the boys when they first arrived at Auschwitz spoke to them about the challenges they would face. “We are all brothers and share the same fate. The same smoke hoovers over all our heads. Help each other to be better. That is the only way to survive” (41). This just happened to be the first time they were treated and understood as humans since arriving at the concentration camp. This created hope and faith for the boys whom the Pole was speaking to; no matter what they were about to go through on this long road ahead of them, they wanted to believe