Examples Of Giving Up In Night By Elie Wiesel

Giving up can better be defined as the ceasing of belief that something you wish to happen might be possible. In the autobiography Night written by Elie Wiesel, a Jew during World War II, who was sent to a concentration camp, we witness an example of a prisoner of war giving up. Wiesel has strength until the very end of his journey and right before liberation by the americans he looses hope as his father passes away. In life, many prisoners give up hope because of the fear they will never see their loved ones or old life again, little is done to console them and conditions are often harder and rougher than those of their more privileged prior life and with their lack of freedom it is difficult to adjust to the new normal: their lives in captivity, and hope can be lost because of religious discouragements . However, as a person in bondage having a reliable something or someone to put faith and trust in can be motivation enough to ‘keep hope alive’. Many prisoners give up hope because of the fear of there being no return to their old life. Becoming a prisoner usually means you are leaving others behind and the knowledge that …show more content…
This is especially the case with people who lived wealthier lives outside of captivity. The rich have a harder time adjusting to poorer conditions than the poor do, this is a well known fact. In the process of attempting to conform and be the same in tougher conditions, many people give up along the way. In Night we see an example of this towards the end of the book when the prisoners are forced to run to the war camp Gleiwitz. Although they are malnourished, they are all aware that if they fail to run as the Germans commanded them to, they would be shot and killed. Even with this knowledge, many Jews gave up trying to adjust to running and were shot on the