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What Does Bread Mean In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

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Having bread with every meal as a side is a given, having a fire in the fireplace on cold winter nights is considered relaxing; however, bread and fire are not what they were to the men in the concentration camp as they are to us in 2016 in America. Bread was viewed as a meal, sometimes a prize. Fire was viewed as torture, not a way to keep warm. In the book, Night, by Elie Wiesel is a story about a young boy fighting with everything a young boy has to survive in the depths of the Holocaust.
Food is a necessity, however being in prison you never truly get all the nutrients you need. The men in Auschwitz were served bread as every meal, to the men, bread was considered the key way to survival. “It could be used one day to buy something, some
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