Harsh Consequences Of Insanity

Many people can get insanity when going through harsh conditions. During the book many characters started giving up because they were no longer dependent over someone else. Also some people couldn’t resist the urge to die since they no lonegr found the happiness in life. It is important that you don’t go crazy when in a concentration camp. While on thier way to the new concentration camp one lady started seeing things even when they weren’t thre. For example, Mrs. Schachter goes crazy and starts crying. The consequences of this was that she would start saying that there was fire and that something was burning up even thought there wasn’t anything there. This affected that the people in the same cattle car as her started getting annoyed by
her and told her to be quiet. As a result, when they got to their new concentration camp she got killed because all she do was cry. At the end they noticed that she wasn’t crazy and that the fire she was talking about was the crematory. During the time of the Holocaust many people started going crazy and loosing their faith in god too. For example, Elie can be used as an example because of all the hard and harsh conditions he went through. The consequences were that he would try to fight against anything difficult he was going through., this affected that sometimes he would get beaten up for the actions he would take. As a result, he started noticing that there if there was an actual god why were all the bad thing happening. Elie going throght this shows how diccicult it was to survive during that time. Insanity can get the best and worst from you as shown in the book. In the book, the only way a character survived by was not giving up and letting it get to you. When you are going through difficult times, make sure you have someone to talk to.