The Holocaust was terrible and one of the most horrifying things humanity has ever done to another human being. Eliezer Wiesel was a Hungarian Holocaust survivor. Later in his life, he became a profound writer, writing 57 books, with his first being Night. Night is the story of his life as a teenager surviving multiple concentration camps in the holocaust, this memoir was the most touching and gut-wrenching book that he wrote, the purpose was to never let anyone forget about the holocaust, and he did that. In the book Night, Weisel was faced with choiceless choices that he had to battle through the hardest time of his life. Elie made the worst possible decisions for himself in the situation that was presented to him. His father, Shlomo Weisel deeply influenced him and what decisions he made with his relationships, while he was in the camp, and what lead him into the camp. …show more content…
These choiceless choices decided the fate of their family and friends before they even went into the camp. The first warning call that the Weisels got was when they heard the news that the nazis were invading and Elle’s dad said, “I am too old my son, he answered.’ Too old to start from scratch in some distant land.”’(9) There were warning signs that Elle faced but because of his father's influence, it became a choiceless choice to leave. Another flashing red warning was when Maria, their former maid, begged them to come to live in her house where she had prepared a safe shelter. (20) Shlomo put pressure on his kid by saying that Elle could go but that he would not be going with them since the town looked up to him. This again made a choiceless choice for Elle because he did not want to leave his dad and his