Theme Of Greed In Night By Elie Wiesel

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The concentration camps shows one of the nine circles of hell in Night to show greed. Throughout the book the author shows greed between the characters, which Elie sees throughout the book. During the book Elie sees how the greed has affected the Jews, which causes them to act differently, and for some not even to act humanely. One instance where Elie deals with greed is when he was forced to give up his gold in his tooth: “ A few days after my visit, the dentist’s office was shut down. He had been thrown into prison and was about to be hanged. It appeared that he had been dealing in prisoners’ gold teeth for his own benefit” (Wiesel 52). This shows how greed had affected the dentist since he was only helping himself and not others. Also,