Examples Of Adversity In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Adversity is one of the things human race cannot avoid. Some problems are likely to set people back. Thought people cannot keep away from it, one can go through it if his mind focused on solving the problem. In Elie Wiesel's novel Night, the protagonist displays how a determined individual can turn helpless because of a tragic event, but then became persistent again in surviving. It demonstrates how not to cave in, no matter how hard the situation is and having the courage to survive and overcome the trauma by telling their story.

People, one meet new people every day in our lives. Even if it is a passerby in front of your house, in some way, shape, or form we will remember that person. The novel night is an example. The story is a flashback
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Our society today, everyone is own person, it is the survival of the fittest. To illustrate, the way the author of the book, night wrote the story as if he is taking the reader there. The characters in the story specifically the people in Sighet were confident that nothing bad will happen to them. The year 1944 once a peaceful town became restless. German officers came rolling in the town of Sighet. Nobody felt safe as they do not know what will be the commands of the German soldiers will be. The town was divided into two ghettos before they started transporting the people to the concentration camps. "Two ghettos were created in Sighet" (11). Everyone feels regretful when they are being transported. Under the blazing sun, people stand to wait for their names to be called. Kids were crying for water. "Water mother, I am thirsty" (16). After a long time of waiting, the people were finally called, seemingly enough that they prefer this over staying in their town with the exception of being under the oppressive heat. Distress and tears were evident with the addition of their slow and heavy walk. "In everyone's eyes, tears and distress" (17). This demonstrated as the hollowing of the human spirit within their body. It seems like people will prefer on going to the great unknown because of the things that they are experiencing now. Not knowing that what awaits them on the other side is sometimes more horrible than …show more content…
Adversity as bad as may it sound one can go through it easily if he puts his mind through it. Putting a positive mind on the problem will somewhat make an individual easily solve it. Though it does not seem evident, one may think that Elie survive because people who is with him who had died wanted him to live to tell their story. That is what the protagonist did. He survive and got his courage up to tell his story and overcome the

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