t’s easy to be selfish, taking everything for yourself and not letting anybody in. Anybody and everybody can be selfish, but I believe there are circumstances that can teach you to be selfless. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie was put into this circumstance where he needed to be selfless and couldn’t remain selfish. Elie was a very religious boy who had gotten taken by the Nazi’s during World War II and placed in concentration camps. During his time in the camps his father fell ill and became weak. Romans 15:1 reads “Now we who are strong have an obligation to bear the weakness of those without strength, and not to please ourselves”. In this special circumstance Elie through the grace of god gained the strength to be selfless by bearing
