Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

The Angelic Pipel or the Father The situation of keeping with Human nature depends on the intensity of the crime against humanity. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, terms of deciding between the slow death of a child or the slow death of an adult is a difficult one. Between the angelic pipels hanging and killing one’s father for a piece of bread, choosing which best keeps with human nature is difficult.
The angelic pipels hanging was not keeping with human nature because he was just a boy at the time. “This time, the Lagerkapo refused to act as executioner” ( 64 Wiesel). The Lagerkapo, or the head of camp, knew that killing this boy inhumane. In refusing to perform the execution, it showed the inmates that situation was even inhumane to the leaders who had killed hundreds or even thousands of other people. “Their tongues were hanging out, swollen and bluish. But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing” (65 Wiesel). If the thought and act of executing this child was not enough,

“Too late to save your old father...You could have two rations of bread, two rations of soup” (111 Wiesel). The fact that Wiesel was even thinking about letting the person who helped bring him into the world die for food is something that no one now can even understand. Back then, during those circumstances, that was probably common thought going through peoples heads. “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears” (112 Wiesel). Wiesel’s feeling towards both instances were equally understanding of how bad that place was in keeping with “Human” nature. Human nature is mostly about survival though, so did Wiesel know that he could not have survived if his father was weighing him down? While these events took place in a horrible time for the human race, one of them was better at keeping with “Human” nature than the