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Decisions In Night By Elie Wiesel

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During a lifetime you are forced to make many decisions. some may have your life on the line. Like the decisions that Elie had to make in the Memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. In the time that Wiesel and his father were in the concentration camps they were forced to make many decisions that would determine in they would live or die. The Jews made the decision to disobey their religion and eat food on a day they were supposed to be fasting. On the jewish holiday the people in camp discussed whether they should fast for the day, or if they should have disobeyed and eaten food. Wiesel knew that “to fast could mean a more certain, more rapid death” (30). Wiesel was smart. some of the other Jews in camp did fast and ended up dieing a lot faster. Wiesel was also forced his father to eat so he would not die because his father was the only reason he was living. …show more content…

When Wiesel first got to auschwitz they were asked their age and either sent to the left or the right. While Wiesel and his father were waiting in line people from inside the camp yelled at them and told them that unless they lied and said they were 18 and 40 they would be sent to die. When they were asked their age Wiesel said that his age was 18 and his father said that he was 40 instead of 50. They got sent to the left which hopefully meant they had met the requirements to live, and “a weight lifted from [Wiesel's] chest. If they had not lied they might have gotten sent to the right and been

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