Night By Elie Wiesel Quotes

From birth, humans rely on relationships to survive. Whether it is a baby clinging to it’s mother for food and shelter, or a friends leaning on each other for support relationships keep humans alive. Throughout history, humans have faced massive struggles from racial divides to abuse from those that were believed to be reliable. Night by Elie Wiesel tells the nefarious events of the Holocaust from the eyes of a young Jewish boy, Eliezer. Eliezer manages to escape with his own life from constantly being pushed to survive from his father. Premila and Santha also face and stand up to racial discrimination in “By Any Other Name” by Santha Rama Rau. The oldest sister pulls the youngest from school after the teacher said that all Indians cheated. In addition, Lakshmi the …show more content…
Lakshmi is introduced to the readers as the daughter of a family grappling with poverty in a very traditional Nepalese village. As her family struggled to survive through poverty due to their step-father gambling everything away, Lakshmi had a very devoted relationship to her mother that would keep her fighting to get out of the “Happiness House” to return to help take care of her mother and brother “Ama wipes her hands on her apron, looks up at our old roof with new eyes, and lifts the baby from his basket. She twirls him in the air, her shirt flying around her ankles the way the clouds swirl around the mountain cap her laughter fresh and strange and musical to my ears.” (McCormick 26) Moreover, this idea of the importance of family relationships was also supported by Elie Wiesel in Night when Eliezer was in constant fear of losing his father "I was thinking of my father. He must have suffered more than I did." (Wiesel 56). When both Lakshmi and Eliezer’s lives became difficult, they each clung to their parents in order to survive the difficult