One ocean away, about seventy years ago, Jews were forced into camps that almost always ended with death. Starvation, torture, backbreaking work, and death were simply the norm in the camps. These things combined can and will drive people to the point of insanity. I believe that people can fall prey to such conditions for two reasons: the elderly man and the soup and the train ride. About halfway through the book “Night,” by Elie Wiesel, Elie describes a poor old man who crawled on hands and knees through an air raid for an untouched, full cauldron of soup and unfortunately died in the process. The unnamed man was given a choice to die of starvation or potentially die from the airstrike by the cruel and evil Germans desperate to wipe the Earth
