The world is filled with selfish people, but there are always people who are so selfless that they’d do anything for another person. In his memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel comes in contact with selfless people. Wiesel shows with characterization and significant details that thinking about others before yourself is the right thing to do. Being selfless is key. The way an author describes a person through characterization shows the reader what kind of person they are, in this case it’s how selfless they are. While Elie is in the camps there is one guard that all the Jews are fond of, the Dutch Oberkapo. He is introduced as “… and they all loved him like a brother. Nobody had ever endured a blow or even an insult from him” (63). We are aware of
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Elie himself was an example of someone who acted selflessly. Even after his father was sick and a guard said to him, “Stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father” (110), he thought for a brief moment about it, but continued to give him rations. He felt that he was doing what was right. Maybe this is one of the reasons Elie got out of the camps alive, but even some people died from being selfless in the Holocaust. They helped another person stay alive even if it was only for one more day. The details a writer includes to add in their story gives an outlook of a character’s life, those details could shape the person that they end up to be. As Wiesel wrote his memoir, Night, the significant details he includes help the audience get more of a background on his life. One example of this is when Moishe the Beadle, Elie’s master who helped him with his studies, came back to the small town to warn them all of what was to come. “They were forced to dig huge trenches.” “Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners…” “How had Moishe the Beadle been able to escape? By a miracle. He was wounded in the leg and left for dead…” (6). He told Elie what had happened, …show more content…
Although there was a specific event that was centered around selfishness, it seemed to have a lesson behind it. When they are placed in the cattle car, they travel through a small town. Where a German workman threw a piece of bread into the wagon, soon they began to fight over the bread to try and cure their hunger. An older man came crawling out of the battle with a piece of bread hidden under his shirt. His son began attacking him for the bread. “Meir, my little Meir! Don’t you recognize me… You’re killing your father…I have bread for you too…” (101). He ends up killing his father, and only moments later the boy is killed for the bread also. If he would have waited just a little longer he wouldn’t have killed his father, he might have stayed alive a little longer, and he would have been able to eat even just a little bit. During the air raid in chapter four, a boy steals two bowls of soup, he was later sentenced to death. “In the name of Reichsfuher Himmler…prisoner number…stole during the air raid…according to the law…prisoner number…is condemned to death. Let this be a warning and an example for all prisoners” (62). This is another example of how desperate these people had become and the selfishness that’s associated with it, and this was the thing that cost them their lives. Even at the beginning of the book, when they were in the cattle car, people acted selfishly and
Elie himself was an example of someone who acted selflessly. Even after his father was sick and a guard said to him, “Stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father” (110), he thought for a brief moment about it, but continued to give him rations. He felt that he was doing what was right. Maybe this is one of the reasons Elie got out of the camps alive, but even some people died from being selfless in the Holocaust. They helped another person stay alive even if it was only for one more day. The details a writer includes to add in their story gives an outlook of a character’s life, those details could shape the person that they end up to be. As Wiesel wrote his memoir, Night, the significant details he includes help the audience get more of a background on his life. One example of this is when Moishe the Beadle, Elie’s master who helped him with his studies, came back to the small town to warn them all of what was to come. “They were forced to dig huge trenches.” “Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners…” “How had Moishe the Beadle been able to escape? By a miracle. He was wounded in the leg and left for dead…” (6). He told Elie what had happened, …show more content…
Although there was a specific event that was centered around selfishness, it seemed to have a lesson behind it. When they are placed in the cattle car, they travel through a small town. Where a German workman threw a piece of bread into the wagon, soon they began to fight over the bread to try and cure their hunger. An older man came crawling out of the battle with a piece of bread hidden under his shirt. His son began attacking him for the bread. “Meir, my little Meir! Don’t you recognize me… You’re killing your father…I have bread for you too…” (101). He ends up killing his father, and only moments later the boy is killed for the bread also. If he would have waited just a little longer he wouldn’t have killed his father, he might have stayed alive a little longer, and he would have been able to eat even just a little bit. During the air raid in chapter four, a boy steals two bowls of soup, he was later sentenced to death. “In the name of Reichsfuher Himmler…prisoner number…stole during the air raid…according to the law…prisoner number…is condemned to death. Let this be a warning and an example for all prisoners” (62). This is another example of how desperate these people had become and the selfishness that’s associated with it, and this was the thing that cost them their lives. Even at the beginning of the book, when they were in the cattle car, people acted selfishly and