Night By Elie Wiesel Analysis

Night I.C.E. Imagine someone studying for a test, like a final exam. It is common knowledge that studying for a test as big as a final is very stressful and an intense situation to have to deal with, considering all the reading, writing, and note taking they have to take since final exams are very important. In the story Night, there are many situations that are far more intense like getting whipped because of someone’s carelessness or having to run on an almost empty stomach or be shot. The story is told from the perspective of a young boy named Elie Wiesel, who is a survivor of the holocaust, as he tells his story about his fight for survival. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, there are many ways that people can cope with intense situations …show more content…
In this piece of the memoir told from Elie’s perspective, Elie and his father had just been separated from his mother and sister, and were walking towards the crematorium at Auschwitz. Elie thinks they are going to be sent to the crematory and burned alive. He leans over to his father and explains his plan: “If that is so, I don’t want to wait here. I’m going to run into the electric wire. That would be better than slow agony in the flames.” When he tells this to his father, it gives the thought that sometimes, when people are faced with extremely intense situations and feel a huge pain will soon engulf them, they decide instead to look for an easier way out of the problem so they don’t have to fight against it. An outside example for this can be found possibly when someone is given a very hard task to do, they might look for an easier way to do it, or get out of doing it in general. Possibly when given a hard task as classwork, a student might cheat, look up help, or just not do it! Elie, in a way, has the same feeling. Rather than having to suffer a slow, burning agony inside the flames, he would rather jump out of line and take a quick and painless death so he won’t have to feel the horrible situation of the