The Holocaust was a horrifying event that involved the murder of over 6,000,000 innocent people. Few people survived this terrorizing event, and those who did live with the memories of pain and suffering. One of these individuals is Elie Wiesel, who wrote the haunting novel, Night. This novel is an account of the horrible events that took place during the Holocaust and how the author, Wiesel, was resilient and able to overcome the overwhelming adversities of dwindling health, his faith in God, death, and the separation from his family.
When Wiesel was loaded on to a cattle car, carrying seventy-nine other people to the German concentration camp of Auschwitz, he had very little knowledge of what he was to encounter. Along with the fear of the unknown, he was about to experience the lowest standard of living that anyone could undergo. During his time at the concentration camps, Wiesel was starved to the point where they would eat the snow off of a man’s shoulder and where they would marvel at the sight of a piece of bread. In the novel he retells the sight of “dozens of starving men fought each other to …show more content…
Although millions of innocent people died in these camps, Wiesel was able to survive due to his undeniable resilience. Numerous times, he looked death straight in the face and there was never a time where he was sure that he was going to survive this horrible genocide. With his strength and his will to overcome significant obstacles, Wiesel was able to survive the Holocaust and reveal to everyone what life was like for those who were captured. Resilience is a characteristic that only certain individuals obtain. There are those who are unable to face adversity and show weakness in difficult situations, however people who show undying strength to push through hard situations are the ones who will overcome almost any obstacle that is presented to
When Wiesel was loaded on to a cattle car, carrying seventy-nine other people to the German concentration camp of Auschwitz, he had very little knowledge of what he was to encounter. Along with the fear of the unknown, he was about to experience the lowest standard of living that anyone could undergo. During his time at the concentration camps, Wiesel was starved to the point where they would eat the snow off of a man’s shoulder and where they would marvel at the sight of a piece of bread. In the novel he retells the sight of “dozens of starving men fought each other to …show more content…
Although millions of innocent people died in these camps, Wiesel was able to survive due to his undeniable resilience. Numerous times, he looked death straight in the face and there was never a time where he was sure that he was going to survive this horrible genocide. With his strength and his will to overcome significant obstacles, Wiesel was able to survive the Holocaust and reveal to everyone what life was like for those who were captured. Resilience is a characteristic that only certain individuals obtain. There are those who are unable to face adversity and show weakness in difficult situations, however people who show undying strength to push through hard situations are the ones who will overcome almost any obstacle that is presented to