Commentary On Night By Elie Wiesel

“Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time” said Elie Wiesel in his book separating his mind and body. In the memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel tells his story of his experience in the concentration camps in Auschwitz and of how he survived. He experienced all this along with his father, who may have decreased more than increased his survival in some of the events that occurred in the book.
When Winter hit the concentration camps, Elie’s foot got swollen and had it checked by a Jewish doctor there. The doctor said he needed to do surgery on the foot before his toes froze and his foot would have to be amputated. After the surgery, he would rest for two weeks and then there was an evacuation. Elie and the other sick prisoners in the infirmaries were to stay and the rest of the camp had to get ready to march. Elie said, “As for me, I was thinking not about death but about not wanting to be separated from my father”, which it's exactly what he
When the train would pass German towns, Germans would throw pieces of bread in the wagon for each person to fight for each crumble of bread. This was a very violent and risk to Elie's life as a little kid. The SS walked by and threw out dead bodies from each crate. Men from Elie's crate claimed his father dead but Elie hit his father to prove he wasn't. This affected Elie, he said,” the evidence overwhelmed me: there was no longer any reason to live, any reason to fight.” When they finally arrived, they were promised showers but Elie's father falls to the ground not wanting to get up. Elie tried to convince him he'd just need a shower and he can finally rest but his father's negativeness did not help. Elie was so mad he lived and endured so much with his father that now his father wanted to give