Maturity In 'Night And Sold'

Night and Sold essay
Maturity, the point in a child’s life when they transform in many wondrous ways and gain much needed values. You don’t want to rush the process, nor do you want to try and enter the world without maturity because of the values you will need. By examining the novels Night and Sold we can see that maturity is the key to survival, which s important because often times people who don’t mature struggle in the world due to the lack of the necessary values that maturity brings with it.
In the novel Night Elie survived due to the fact that the longer he was in the camp, the more his maturity started to take its role in giving him the value of Strength. Some may say that strength isn’t a value of maturity, but I disagree in saying that strength is more than just physical strength, it is also mental. His mental strength was shown many times in the novel, the fact that he lost half his family, the fact that his best friend was taken and retuned to him completely different than before, the fact that he was taken away from his home, put into a cramped cattle train car and being taken to a place of
Through everything he has been put through, he had enough courage and strength to adapt to his situation, he found time to search for fall food, anything from corn kernels to rotted bread pieces, he got used to the smell of burning flesh in the air, he learned to block out memories so it would be easier to survive. “The smell of death was not so strong anymore, my memories of good times started to turn to bits and pieces, the pain in my stomach from hunger became a normal body function, every horrible thing around me just started to become an awful part of my daily life.”Pg.89. No matter what they did to him, no matter what they took away from him, Elie only grew more adapted , and it was these adaptations that allowed Elie to grow into what he is now…a