Night: Competitiveness In Today's Society

We live in a corrupted, greedy, and competitive world that most people strive for the big prize at the end of the tunnel, money. Yet there are some people who shine through and show their responsibilities of other people, and try their best to care for everyone they can to the best of their ability. The human race has always been complexed with people changing how the world functions daily, each person on this world has a different outtake on how things should be ran. As we grow together though and form in groups with others you begin to see different results of what we can accomplish together. As humans there are a whole bunch of different influences that affect everyone of us in thousands of way: religion, politics, parents, friends, etc. Anything that we hold close to us can change how we
Sadly the answer is no as we see today and in the novel Night. There is a clear showing of competitiveness in today’s society due to a majority of people's belief in attempting to get more money. We see others put people down to grow stronger, such in the business industry. We have small mom and pop shops that continue to go out of business due to big industries taking over all of the customers who are looking for lower prices. Meanwhile in the novel you see the clear differences between how some of the Jews treat one another. When Elie first arrives at a concentration camp he is introduced to the horrific scene of “dozens of inmates, sticks in hand, striking anywhere, anyone, without reason”. This shows off even with all of the Jews together as a group they aren’t willing to cooperate with one another, instead the people who have managed to find a source of power, weapons, begins to take hold of their cell. This just shows that our responsibilities are only as great as our personal beliefs of others even in a group