Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir of his first hand experience in the Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel creates a fictional character named Eliezer, the protagonist, to portray himself. At the young age of fifteen Eliezer was forced to endure stress, fear, and inhumane treatment for being born into the opposing minority group. Eliezer struggled to maintain his Jewish faith and persevere through the hardships that were forced upon him. The mistreatment of the Jews by the Germans caused Eliezer, as well as the author, to reconsider his identity and question his own standard of humanity. In the beginning of the novel readers learn the background of Elie, such as the community he resides in and his religious background. The story quickly turns depressing as foreign jews begin to be expelled from the town and treated in a uncivilized manner, foreshadowing what is going to happen to the Jews. The Jews are soon told to evacuate the town and forced to run and be stuffed in cattle cars with little space and lack of oxygen. Elie uses this situation to reflect how the Germans view him and his …show more content…
A Parisian woman comes across him and a few children and throws coins at the ground, the children begin to attack one another as if they were wild animals fighting for the last scrap of food. Eliezer pleads to the women to not give them charity as he has a flashback of the train ride when a couple of men began to fight over a piece of bread that was thrown in by Germans who wanted to be entertained and laugh at the Jews inhumane actions. Eliezer doesn't react to the piece of bread even though he's just as hungry as everyone else but he rather die than let the little dignity that remains fade away. He doesn't want to succumb to the level his fellow Jews have willingly fallen into. Eliezer believes his life to be worth more than someone else's source of