Themes In Night By Elie Wiesel

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In most cases, people will do what they have to do in order to survive. The book Night is about a young boy named Elie, and how he survived in multiple concentration camps. By reading Night we can see that family is the key to survival, which is important because those who don’t have family can often die. The main reason that Elie survives is because he had his father there with him for almost the whole time. Elie shows that he wants to stay with his dad by saying, “What would he do without me? I was his only support,” (p.93). Elie may have wanted to die but he remembers that he is all that his father has left. He couldn’t just leave his dad. Also, Elie stays with his father the whole time of being in the various camps, excluding the end of