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The ability to overcome tough obstacles in an individual's life is known as human resilience. The book “Boys in the boat”, written by Daniel James Brown, is about a young man named Joe Rantz, who is on the rowing team for the University of Washington. He had to overcome many challenges regarding his past, but it didn’t stop him from gaining a spot on the United States Olympic crew team. He helped lead his team to victory, despite the hardships of living alone as a teenager. The second story “Night”, is a personal narrative written by Elie Wiesel. When he was a teenager, his family, and many other people of their Jewish community were put into concentration camps. He shares his terrifying experiences, along with relationships he had in the camps. Elie Wiesel and Joe Rantz had family and fear in their lives, which helped increase their resilience. In Night, Elie and his father showed examples of how family and fear affects human resiliency. For example, Elie’s father believed that his family was in another camp. According to Elie, “Mother is still a young woman, my father said once. She must be in a labor camp”. (46) This shows that his father believed in his family, that they were all still alive, even though deep down he probably knew that they had been sent to the crematorium on the first day in the camp. This belief helped him stay alive, hoping that he would see his family again after they were free. Another example of human resiliency is, according to Elie, “I had no…