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Summary Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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The first choice Elie endured was on his journey from Buna to Buchenwald when he was offered a sparse amount of food in the train cars. Interpreting how drastic the living situation was, Elie states, “We received no food. We lived on snow; it took the place of bread. The days resembled the nights, and the nights left in our souls the dregs of their darkness,” (Wiesel 100). Consequently, the prisoners had no other option but to consume the snow because they were so malnourished. Snow immediately became their daily intake because they weren’t given any other food, except when the car halted and guards tossed chunks of bread inside. Even then, people killed one another for a sliver of a piece, so Elie figured it wasn’t worth it. On the positive
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