“From that moment on everything happened very quickly. The race toward death had begun”(Wiesel, 1960, p. 8). In the book night, the Holocaust was the main event that took place. There were many people, with most of the population made up of Jews, that were forced to endure harsh labor, environments, and new ways of living. The Holocaust took away everything the prisoners had including their faith and at times personality. Sometimes certain experiences cause people to alter their ideas about what is valuable in life and their beliefs. Elie, the main character and author, had went through a journey in his life. Once he witnessed and experienced horrendous things his faith and himself had changed. He saw his dad and many others get beat and …show more content…
“My father’s presence was the only thing that stopped me…. He was running at my side, out of breath, at the end of his strength, at his wit’s end. I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his only support,” (Wiesel, 1960, p. 82). During most of the journey in the camps, mostly at Auschwitz, Elie worried about his father's survival more than his own. At this time the only worry about dying was that his father would not make it without him. He should of kept pushing through for himself. Once arrived at Buchenwald, Elie and his father were marching with the other prisoners when Elie’s father decided to rest in the snow. Elie was upset at his father and wanted him to keep moving so they could soon rest in the bunks. “I went to look for him. But at the same moment this thought came into my mind: ‘Don’t let me find him! If only I could get rid of this dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my own survival, and only worry about myself,” (Wiesel, 1960, p. 101). Now Elie feels his father is holding him back and he just wants to get rid of the responsibility of keeping him alive to focus on his own survival. After they found each other Elie’s sticked by his father's side at the bunks until Elie woke up and found out his father had died. “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like- Free at last,” (Wiesel, 1960, p. 106) Elie is now worried about surviving. He does not have sympathy or many emotions at this point considering everything he has is strength and a drive to