Night By Elie Wiesel Essay

Genocide, a word that has affected millions yet it’s a crime that has never been committed. Millions have been killed due to a belief that they are subordinate as a group, yet genocide has not ever been declared. With over 10 million dead, where are the survivors? What compelled them to persevere and strive towards survival? Well, Elie Wiesel lived to tell the story. Elie tells about his struggles in his novel called Night. He speaks upon what had happened to him and his family in the holocaust, and what ultimately led him to living through the holocaust. The reason he is alive today and was able to tell the story, is because of his persistence to live, his mental strength to keep going, and his overall grit to become one of the historic survivors that he is today.
The persistence of young Elie Wiesel played a large part in his endurance through the targeting and killing of him and his people. From the moment that he boarded the train that was directed towards his almost inevitable death, his persistence to withstand his fall, played its part. “[...] to merely look up to the sky and think that I am looking at …show more content…
Every day, the German soldiers would beat and torture all of the jews, including Elie. "I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip." (Wiesel 57) The significance of this quote is beyond words explanation. Everyday, close ones, friends, everyone was dying and that's one of the worst mournings that a human being can face. Elie says that he no longer feels that pain of anything besides the lashes of the whip. With loved ones dying and the hard reality that Elie had almost no hope of a life beyond the camps, him saying that the only pain he felt was the whip, illustrates how hopeless he was. Death was constantly tiptoeing at the dragging heels of the prisoners, but Elie consisted on moving