Adam Vogel
Mrs. Gruhn
English 11
02 November 2017
Night Essay
How far would someone go to survive in an unimaginable situation, that tests your faith, turns you against your family, and makes you wonder if you can go on. As World War 2 raged on it wasn't only soldiers who were being killed, millions of Jews were rounded up and put into concentration camps. One young Jewish boy named Elie Wiesel had the courage to write about all the horrors that he experienced during his time at Auschwitz. Everyone has certain needs that have to be meet in order to live. Some of those needs are the need for love, physiological needs, and safety and security. In the book “Night” Elie tells us about his experiences and how the basic needs of life were not met, by depriving them of love,
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Love is an important need for life. Without love you cannot function, if there is no love many people will suffer from depression, and other mental illnesses. In the book Elie shows that there is no love in the camps as he says “I felt anger at the moment, it was not directed at the Kapo but at my father. Why couldn’t he have avoided Idek’s wrath?”(54). The SS tried to eliminate love in the camps so that the Jews would work more efficiently. By depriving them of love, the SS caused a great deal of physiological pain and suffering. The SS caused much physiological suffering in the camps. By not giving the prisoners enough food or water many went insane and had mental breakdowns. The hunger that the prisoners experienced was enough for them to actually kill for some more food. Elie recalls a time in the camps when during a bomb raid a prisoner attempted to get an extra amount of soup from a cauldron that was left in the street (59) he was shot in the street for his actions. They were also not given proper protection from the elements. Many times during the winter prisoners would die from lack of blankets or heat in their