Elie Wiesel's Motivation In The Book Night

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When Elie Wiesel was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945, he decided to wait for ten years before writing his memoirs of the Holocaust. Night is the story of Elie Wiesel surviving Nazi concentration camps as a teenager. The original Yiddish publication of Night was 900 pages and titled And the World Remained Silent. Despite low sales originally, Night has now been translated into thirty languages and has become a classic. In the book Night, the character that contradicts Elie’s resilient attitude is his father when he loses the motivation to survive while Elie has the motivation to survive, the lesson to be learned through these two characters would be the importance of family. Elie Wiesel was able to withstand and recover quickly from difficult conditions. Elie ran for his life “[...] without looking back, [his] head was spinning [with the thoughts: I am] too skinny, [I am] too weak, [I am] too skinny, [I am] good for the ovens”(Wiesel, 72). This quote displays how Elie was determined to not die by being sent to the ovens, but instead to fight back for his life. …show more content…

After the evacuation was announced, he was afraid that the SS was going to kill the patients left behind so “[he] went straight to [his] block [, his] wound had reopened and was bleeding”(Wiesel, 82). Elie avoided death by leaving the hospital before the evacuation was complete, which displays his resilient attitude, since he could’ve chose to stay in the hospital with the risk of being

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