In Night by Elie Wiesel and Surviving Auschwitz by Primo Levi, the two authors portray the attitudes during selection differently. In Night, Elie tells how the guards are saying brutal things very calmly, “Men to the left! Women to the right! Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion.” As if what is happening to the Jews is just “part of their job.” The guards in Surviving Auschwitz are much more reassuring, “Someone else did not want to leave their wife: they said, ‘together again afterwards.” The Jews in Night did not ask the guards questions, this makes them seem much more distant to what’s going on around them. Almost as if their bodies are there but their minds are somewhere else. Jews in Surviving Auschwitz asking questions