“Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in,” Shannon L. Alder said. The negative factors in your life can change you as a person and how you view certain things. In Night, due to harsh conditions Eliezer is forced to face, he struggles to fight starvation and puts himself first during his father’s time of need. Eliezer doesn’t stay by his father’s side because he didn’t want to be beaten. He clarified that he was well aware of his father’s misery, but he was “afraid, afraid of the blows.” This displays how Eliezer became more self-regarding for not being by his father’s side in order to escape from getting whipped. Unhesitant, he puts himself first instead of his dad. He doesn’t show any form of compassion towards
