Night By Elie Wiesel And Sold By Patricia Mccormick

People will do amazing things to ensure survival and they’re not going to be thinking about anybody but themselves. Thinking about others every now and then is okay but doing it too much is going to hold you back. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel and Sold by Patricia McCormick, they are fighting for survival. By examining the novels Night and Sold we can see that both of the main characters are more focused on the survival then family which is important because their family isn’t wasn’t what was going to set them free.
Elie doesn't think about his family, is what has set him free. If he would have tried to keep trying to save his dad after he got in trouble he could have been shot. Instead Elie tried to think about what could happen to him if he was to step in and so he left it alone. Elie even said, “In fact I was thinking of how to get my father away so that I would not be hit myself” (62). If Elie was to be thinking about if his sisters and mother was thrown into the pit of fire the whole journey he wouldn’t have survived. Towards the end he said, “And I had but one desire—to eat. I no longer thought of

He was a relative of Elie and his family. Stein was worrying about his children and wife every day and he wasn’t focused on himself. He came looking for answers about his family from Elie and his father. He told them “I thought perhaps you might have news of Reizel and my little boys. They stayed behind in Antwerp….” (52). Not that he should be selfish, but in the condition there in he needs to focus on what can happen to him. Instead he tries to focus on his family for survival. He once say, “The only thing that’s keeping me alive, is That Reizel and the children are still alive. If it wasn’t for them, I couldn’t keep going” (53). Relying on family for survival isn’t good because once people hear bad news about one of them it can affect you getting away from what you’re running