Elie Wiesel's Night: Character Analysis

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Instinct, Intelligence, Adaptability, and Ingenuity are equally used within the novels I’ve read by the protagonists inside of the novels.

The ways in which Instinct, Intelligence, Adaptability, and Ingenuity is used within my Summer Reading Novel is explained in the following paragraph. Over the long and seemingly endless summer, I read a book that that told the struggle of dealing with an eating disorder and overcoming the death of a close friend. The protagonist of the novel (Lia Anderson), felt apathetic towards the pain she committed on her body via cutting and starving herself from the beginning of the novel until the very end of the novel. The ways in which Adaptability is helpful happen to be in my novel Night, which states from the main character’s point of view, that even through days, weeks, and months of torture, the protagonist and his father seem to have now become apathetic to the torture of their fellow men, women, and children. “ I could hear my heart beating. The thousands who had died daily at Auschwitz and at Birkenau in the crematory ovens no longer troubled me. But this one, leaning against his gallows- overwhelmed me.’’ ( Wiesel 59 ) This demonstrates Elie’s apathy towards the daily torture within Auschwitz. Yet, he seemed to show compassion and fear over the large man who was going to be hung inside the gallows. And the quote
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The way that Adaptability is used within my Summer Reading Book is when Lia Anderson (from the beginning of the entire novel to the very end) forces herself not to eat a single crumb of anything. Even though her brain is telling her that she should eat food in order to make both her parents and herself happy. But, she doesn’t succumb to her inner self and cuts away any “fat” that she sees (or claims to see) on and out of her body by literally becoming the skinniest girl ever and ending up adapting too well to her environment over the course of the

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