Stamina In Night By Elie Wiesel

A thirteen year old boy had to face the most terrifying thing that's known to happen to people. Elie Wiesel went through a lot when he was just a teenager but still showed great courage throughout the whole situation. When Elie Wiesel went to concentration camps during the holocaust he did everything he could do to survive and never gave up. Elie showed great stamina throughout the holocaust. Elie Wiesel showed stamina during his biggest problems and the not as big problems. He fought through little problems as much as the big problems. For example, “Lying down was not an option, nor could we sit down. We decided to take turns sitting.” In the wagons when they were driving to the concentration camps there were too many people for all them

Such as, “He threw himself on me like a wild beast, beating me in the chest, on my head, throwing me to the ground and picking me until I was covered in blood. As I bit my lips in order not to howl with pain, he must have mistaken my silence for defiance and so he continued to hit me harder and harder” (53). Elie definitely showed stamina when he kept himself silent while he was taking a brutal beating. He didn’t cry in pain because he knew he had to stay strong and fight through the pain. In addition to, “Chilled to the bone, our throats parched, famished, out of breath, we pressed on” (87). When he was marching he had to face the most difficult challenges but no matter how much he wanted to give up he kept going. Elie Wiesel showed stamina in the any challenge that came his way and even in his toughest

Some people might disagree with that and say Elie lost hope multiple times. For example, “ Death enveloped me, it suffocated me. It stuck to me like glue. It felt I could touch it. The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me” (86). When Elie was in a lot of pain he sometimes thought of death as being a good thing and wanted to just give up. But he never did, he fought harder to survive when his conditions got worse and he would brush those thoughts away. For instance, “He was looking at my foot. ‘You think you’ll be able to walk?’ ‘Yes I think so’” (82). This is when Elie Wiesel showed the most stamina. He had just had surgery on his foot but he sacrificed walking on it in a long cold walk to another concentration camp that took days. He fought through all that pain just to stay alive longer and to stay with his father. Elie showed an incredible amount of stamina in this event and throughout the whole