Decisions In Night By Elie Wiesel

I was aware that I was doing it grudgingly." (107). Elie was giving his father his own soup, putting his own life at risk, so his father could survive just a little longer, even though he was basically

In addition, Elie was given the advice “Stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore. And you are hurting yourself. In fact, you should be getting his rations” (Wiesel 110-111). Like the circumstance above, Elie is given advice for his own survival.

In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, Elie had to make several decisions which had a severe impact on his life.. If he failed to make the correct decision it could have resulted in a darker outcome. Elie's decision to lie about his age,not fast during Yom Kippur,and him not fight for food and instead he decides to eat the scraps that were left in any. Those decisions had a significant impact on his life and his identity. As Mr.Wisel once said “Action is the only remedy to indifference:the most insidious danger of all”.

Elie notices his father in hunger and asks, “Did you eat?” “No.” “Why?” Elie argued. His dad explains, “They didn’t give us anything…

The food that he did receive was a small bowl of soup and a piece of bread, and these meals were infrequent. Through all this Elie's strong will to make it through is pushed out. An

This puts a big strain on their relationship. Elie is forced to take care of his father and make sure his dad is taken care of enough to survive. Elie gets very frustrated with his father for not being able to take care of himself. At one point, Elie even thinks about leaving his father behind to save himself. In this quote, "I could have screamed in anger.

In fact, you should be getting his rations…’ “ (110-111). The Blockaltest tells ELie that he should forget about trying to care for his sickly father more and to focus on surviving. Elie is conflicted because he wants to stay with the only family he knows he has left and didn’t want to abandon his father to prioritize himself like Rabbi Eliahu’s son. This shows the struggle between life and death because if Elie were to continue giving his rations to his father, he risked his own well-being. When his father got extremely sick, Elie had to choose between helping his father by sacrificing more of his rations or saving himself and keeping his

Weisel’s father becomes sick and close to dying, and Elie feels compelled to provide for his father. Initially, Weisel gives his father part of his rations each day. A few days later Weisel and the Blockalteste talk about his sick father, and the Blockalteste gives him advice. “‘Stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your father. You cannot help him anymore.

When they were being evacuated on the death march Elie was quickly losing strength and “the idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate” him (86). He was put in a hard spot where if he stopped for a break he would be trampled or shot, but to continue to run meant more pain, especially for his throbbing foot, and he was already so exhausted. In this case, it was Elie’s father who helped him survive. Elie knew he was his father’s sole support and that if he died his father probably would too. Since his father was there, Elie gave himself the mindset that he had to push on, but if his father had not been there beside him he could have easily chosen the other option and let himself fall to the ground.

Elie took a drink and gave him the rest even though elie would have loved to take it himself. His dad yells," .. I can't go on.." (107 night) Eliezer's father screeches for help because of the dysentery he has. Elie does everything to make his father better but nothing works. Elie was clearly trying to take care of his dad and make him better so he would stay alive.

He was able to continuously replenish his weak, old father little by little by making sacrifices such as by giving up his “ration of bread and soup” (110) due to his health and youth. But one aspect that he did not notice was that “every man for himself and . . . each of us lives and dies alone” (110). Elie does not discard his hopes of killing two birds with one stone, until at the end of the novel, when the doctor points out

But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!” This story told by Elie demonstrates how though Elie was somewhat upset, the first thought that occupied his mind was that there would be one less hungry stomach, and one less mouth to feed. This greatly shows that although Elie wanted to mourn over his father, his current mindset of self preservation and instinct would not allow

In his memoir, Elie Wiesel writes, “Since my father's death, nothing mattered to me anymore” (113), showing that his reason for living had left him. He also states that he had “only one desire: to eat. [He] no longer thought of [his] father…” (113), which allows the reader to comprehend that with no reason to live, instinct had taken over. Somehow, he indifferently fought to survive, but it was very clear that his beliefs on life had changed

Elie did not care if he was hungry, all he cared about was if his father was hungry, he cared for him much more than he cared for

I first wanted to see where they would send my father. Were he to have gone to the right I would have run after him. The baton, once more moved to the left. A weight lifted from my heart”(32 Wiesel). Elie’s quick wittiness allows him to continue in the camp instead of going straight to the crematorium.