Adaption is the key to all survival and always has been. In both Sold by Patricia McCormick and Night by Elie Wiesel two young children navigate their way through hard times for the best chance of survival. By examining the novels Night and Sold we can see adaption is the key to survival which is important because those who do not change the old ways they were taught will not make it through challenging times. In Sold Lakshmi adapts from her timid innocence to standing up for what was right which leads to her survival. Lakshmi was very ignorant to what was happening at the beginning of her stay at the happiness house. As her goes on she realizes what is actually happening to the girls and tries to find a way to fix the wrongs without being found out. In the book it says, “I didn’t just hug him. I whispered in his ear and slipped him the flying-bird card” (241). This shows that Lakshmi was willing to take chances to right wrongs toward the end of the book. So overall Lakshmi is an example that adaption is the key to survival. In Sold Anita does not adapt to the hard situation she was faced with and therefore would not have survived. Antia has been …show more content…
the the Happiness House for a long time now and has lots of experience. She too once tried to step out of her safe zone and tell an American but he was a fake and turned her in. From that point on Anita did not trust cops or Americans. Once the Americans and cops came to break up the Happiness House Anita was afraid. The story says, “then, slowly, she lets go of my arm, closes the door between us, and I hear a sad and final sound; the lock sliding into place” (262). This shows that if the Anita would not have been saved if the Americans would have taken only who they seen. Anita would have been lift in the closet and abandoned in the soon to be empty house. This proves that if u do not adapt and take chances your chance of survival is very small. In Night Elie adapts from his family oriented views to a more survival view which leads him to survival.
In the beginning of Night Elie was very focused on his family, keeping them safe, and helping them survive. As he continues his life in the concentration camps he starts to let go of those views. He starts to let go of past events easier instead of dwelling on them, he kicks into survival mode, and he loved his father through the whole thing but realized it was just his time which e would not have done in the beginning of the story. The story says, “The officer dealt him a violent blow to the head… I did not move. I was afraid. My body was afraid of also receiving a blow” (116). This shows that Elie had changed so he himself could survive. All of this is an example to why adaption in the key to
survival. In Night Meir Katz did not adapt to the hard times as well as others and later dies because of it. He use to be a gardener and hard worker but instead of fighting through the harder times he ended up giving up. The story says, “I can’t go on any longer, Chlomo! What can I do? I can’t carry on….” (107). This shows that he didn’t fight through and change in the hardships of the time. This shows that by not adapting people may not just fail but also can lead to death. By analyzing both books we can see that when people do not adapt to difficult situations they often do not survive. This is all important because it is real life situations when people either make it or break it. Events still even happen today like this when people don't change they just don’t seem to make it. So just like life has been doing since the beginning of time we still are changing to survive the current issues we face in everyday life.
Did you know you could kill 6,000,000, and capture about 1 million people in one lifetime? In “Night” Elie Wiesel talks about the life of one of those 7 million people, going into detail about the living conditions, and also talking about the experiences in the book that happened to him. The book explains how it felt to be in a concentration camp, and how it changed a person so much you couldn’t tell the difference between the dead and the living. Elie Wiesel is the author and he was only around 15 when this story happened, so this is his story and how the events in the story changed him. So in the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, “Elie,” is affected by the events in the book such as losing faith, becoming immune to death, and emotionally changing throughout the course of the book.
Night by Elie Wiesel shows the relationship Eliezer has with his father throughout the book strengthen his resolve to survive. In the beginning, Eliezer’s family is the will of Eliezer’s survival. As the book progresses it becomes his father’s presence that is the reason for Eliezer’s survival. At the very end, it was losing the bond with his father that strengthens his ability to survive the most. The progression of Night and the struggles Eliezer endures causes his relationship with his father to perish but in turn, strengthens Eliezer’s will to survive.
with his father being a burden on his shoulder. Something that was holding him back but even though his father slack sometimes almost caused their demise and caused him to slowdown. In certain situations he kept moving forward and not giving up on his father and on himself. Also trying the best he could to survive and help his father survive.Elie even though he was a young boy took on an adult role and push through his situation handling it as an adult. It seemed to be that his father became a distraction towards the end of Night. Even though it hurt him to see his father in his last days or moments before his death even though we don’t know if he died we
Before becoming fully integrated into the brutal life of the camp, as a human being, Elie still cares for the wellbeing of others. After arriving at Birkenau, Elie witnesses the burning of children, women, and men alike. He questions the reality of this situation and "How was it possible... that the world kept silent?" (32). For Elie, silence is unthinkable. Although speaking words that will not come becomes tough, Elie himself managed to do that in the creation of this book, Night. At this point in time, Elie has not lost his faith in the power that people hold; there is still hope for the world to save these people, but only if the silence breaks. Combining that with his tone of disbelief, Elie exemplifies one of humanity’s many ingrained emotions: compassion. However, in a camp
The theme of Night is resilience. To be resilient is to be strong and able to bounce back when things happen. Elie shows resilience many times throughout the course of Night, and some of these times included when Elie and his block are being forced to run to the new camp, when somebody attempts to kill him and when he loses his father to sickness. When Elie is with the group of people running to the new camp, he knows that he needs to persevere and be resilient, even when the person that he is talking to gives up (Wiesel 86). Elie tries to tell somebody that they need to keep going, and that it will not be much longer, but when they give up, Elie does not seem to pity the boy, and he stays strong. Somebody also attempted to strangle Elie while
In the book Night, Elie was thinking to himself, reminding him about the painful and atrocious experience he had to go through while in the Auschwitz concentration camp. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed…Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams into ashes. Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God himself. Never.” (Wiesel 34) He repeats “Never shall I forget…” over and over again before stating each reason because it is true. He will never forget that night. He is reflecting upon his first night in the concentration camp, and its lasting effect in life. The images are permanently burned into his brain and they haunt him. He also uses this repetition to add emphasis to the statements. It seems like he is saying it to himself in almost a crazed manner, I’ll never forget, I’ll never forget, I’ll never forget. This part of the book is a turning point. It is Elie reflecting on what he saw and realizing that he is no longer safe. In conclusion, the horrific imag...
Eliezer- Eliezer or Elie is the narrator of Night. Elie enters Auschwitz as a teenager along with his family. He stays close to his father and becomes the protector as the book progresses. Elie’s faith is constantly challenged and sometimes damaged in the book. Elie is strong and is good-hearted because he never gives up on his father and survives the Holocuast.
...ies of many being burnt away. During his nights at the camp, he just observes the worst kinds of inhumanity possible: the punishing, beating and murders of innocent people all around him. Another major theme portrayed in Night is how inhumanity towards others slowly builds. Although it’s also no secret the Nazis themselves were full of darkness and cruelty, Elie also refers to how he feels a darkness enter into his soul after inspecting the flames. Here, he again questions challenged his faith in God.
Firstly, Elie uses the reoccurring symbol night to show the horrible actions that were brought upon the Jews by the Nazis. The denotation of the word night is a daily period of darkness between sunset and sunrise. Night represents darkness, fear of the unknown, evil and loss of hope. When Elie and his family received the message that they were going to be deported, “Night has fallen” (Wiesel 18). This bad news is brought to them at night. Later in the story Elie says, “Never shall I forget that night, the night in camp,...
Although Night and the Perils of Indifference are very similar in a way, they are also very different as well. Both the speech and the story are extremely powerful, both having a strong message. The story Night is strictly the point of view of the young boy in the concentration camps, and everything he endured during that time period. He only talks about what is going on in his eyes, not what’s going on around the world, or how the world is reacting. The main message in the story is not to give up. Yes, the Jews in these camps had lost all hope in their god and their fellow men, but that didn’t stop them from feeling any less Jewish. Although some of the prisoners did give up, Elie never quit and kept fighting for his life. Although the story is about young Elie withstanding the concentration camps through
Elie was a changed person from the beginning to end of the book. For example, he admits that he is “nothing but a body” towards the end. He thinks that all he’s living is for survival by eating. He feels as if is entire life revolves around food and getting forced by mean german soldiers. One day the soldier who was in charge of camp was in a really bad mood, so he took out all his anger on Elie by beating him continuously. That is a violation of human rights because it is child labor. Elie went from a energetic, happy kid to a fearful, sad person.
Elie goes to Auschwitz at an innocent, young stage in his life. Due to his experiences at this concentration camp, he loses his faith, his bond with his father, and his innocence. Situations as horrendous as the Holocaust will drastically change people, no matter what they were like before the event, and this is evident with Elie's enormous change throughout the memoir Night.
Finally, studying the past helps people to learn from the mistakes that were made. People feel guilty and regrets when they make mistakes. In the book, there was a time when Elie was in the hospital because of his foot surgery and instead of staying in the hospital, he left to go to the other camp because of the threats from SS officers. The SS officers werensaying that they were bombing the camp. This statement is proved in page 79 of Night which says, “I learned after the war the fate of those who had stayed behind in the hospital. They were quite simply liberated by the Russians two days after the
“My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (Wiesel 4). Elie’s father was more involved into other people’s problems instead of his own. He even spent more time with other people, that’s why Elie didn’t have a good relationship with his dad. He didn’t spend too much time with his dad, they didn’t talk about Elie’s problems. Being in a concentration camp with his dad made change his relationship.
...e has to deal with the death of his family, the death of his innocence, and the death of his God at the very young age of fifteen. He retells the horrors of the concentration camp, of starvation, beatings, torture, illness, and hard labor. He comes to question how God could let this happen and to redefine the existence of God in the concentration camp. This book is also filled with acts of kindness and compassion amid the degradation and violence. It seems that for every act of violence that is committed, Elie counteracts with some act of compassion. Night is a reflection on goodness and evil, on responsibility to family and community, on the struggle to forge identity and to maintain faith. It shows one boy's transformation from spiritual idealism to spiritual death via his journey through the Nazi's failed attempt to conquer and erase a people and their faith.