Elie Wiesel's Use Of Food In Night

Different types of food mean different things to people all over the world. Human existence depends solely on a bite to eat. Throughout the memoir Night and the war novel AQWF, hunger satisfaction was considered one of the most crucial needs to get fulfilled to survive another day. A person's fundamental need for food makes it a coveted item. Individuals who control the energy that increases society’s productivity, have a high sense of self-esteem. A consistency of food is important in life’s daily balance. Erich Maria Remarque author of AQWF and Elie Wiesel author of Night, both utilize food to convey this idea. Many of their thoughts and feelings concerning something to eat paralleled one another. Food, one of the life’s quintessential elements, plays a significant role in wartime experiences by forming friendships, leading to pain and suffering, and being a vital part of daily life. Food is essential to basic life. It provides humans with the ability to think, speak, walk, talk, and breath.In preparation for the Jews getting deported from their ghettos, “the Jewish women were busy cooking eggs, roasting meat, and baking cakes.”(Night p.10). These families realized how important food was to their lives, even before the life and death situations of the …show more content…
Night is more effective in showcasing the critical desire for a meal to satisfy hunger, because it shows humans dying without it and brawls break out over tiny scraps and as a result everyone in the novel respects the control that hunger has over everyday life . Erich Maria Remarque and Elie Wiesel both used their books to highlight the nature of food as one of basic needs for human existence. They promoted its basic contribution to life, the power of oversee relations,and the balance food brings to unite different groups of