The Boys In The Boat Character Analysis

Human Resiliency is being able to overcome challenges and having the ability to bounce back quickly. In The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown, and in Night, by Elie Wiesel both characters have to face many difficulties. Family affects Joe and Elie’s ability to overcome those difficulties. In Night by Elie Wiesel, family impacts Elie’s life to prevail obstacles. Elie and his family are Jews. All the Jews were in ghettos and were going to be taken to concentration camps. Hitler was the ruler of Germany and he killed a numerous amount people. Life was difficult for the Jews and if you weren’t healthy or strong enough then you would be brought to the crematoria. In the crematoria, you would be burned to death. The Jews had to travel a great amount …show more content…
I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his sole support.” (Wiesel 86-87) When Elie saw his father running next to him and he knew he couldn’t leave his father and Elie didn’t want to leave his father. His father is the only family he has now. Sometimes, Elie thinks that it would just be easier to leave his father. Rabbi Eliahu’s son ran faster to get away from his father during the marching. Elie also doesn’t want to hurt his father and he knows that he needs him. If Elie let his father die, then he could take his father’s food and get two servings, but Eli doesn’t want to be selfish and he wants to be a good son. “Oh God Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu’s son has done.” (Wiesel 91) Eli saw Rabbi Eliahu was worried about where his son was. He also needed his son and desperately wanted to find him. Elie didn’t want to cause his father to feel this way, even if it would be easier.
Joe, from The Boys in the boat by Daniel James Brown, his family impacts his ability to overcome difficulties. Joe is a boy who joined the crew team at Washington University and he was a very hard worker. When