Survival Of The Fittest In Elie Wiesel's Night

The theory survival of the fittest is represented throughout their Journey to Buchenwald because a son killed his own father over a piece of bread and then a father killed his own son for the same reason. This displays that the only thing prisoners cared about was their own survival. After visualizing such traumatizing event Wiesel is in fear that he will become like them and slowly he does. One of the prisoners suggest Elie to keep the ration given to his father for himself because it will benefit him. Elie feels that his father has become a burden, his father can risk both of them being killed. Elie feels guilty because he wasn’t there for his father and showed no type of empathy when he was taken to crematory. Elie was aware that his father

At first Elie did not want to talk about the Holocaust, what he experiences because he just wanted to forget everything but he could’t. Elie Wiesel slowly realizes that you can’t forget such traumatizing memory so easily and you can’t not talk about it either. People have to learn to hear the things that happened, he wanted himself to be herd so individuals understand that experiencing something like the Holocaust is not traumatizing. Through his book Night, Elie Wiesel opened a foundation for humanity to combat indifference, injustice and intolerance. Rosenblatt’s article explains how Wiesel taught individuals that “silence speaks to us as words, humanity is what you do in response to anguish and that suffering has meaning if it helps you take one step forward, from the darkness of grief to the light of hope”. Rosenblatt explains that it was important for Wiesel to make people understand that you have to help one another in times of difficulty. Humanity is the key to ending inhumanity. He didn’t want history to repeat itself, more importantly he wanted humans beings to be there for one another in times difficulty. Though cruelty breed cruelty, and we all born with inhumanity and humanity; we can’t the evil outshine the