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How Does Elie Wiesel Survive In Night

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Survival 6 million lives, all of those perished in the holocaust for nothing but their religion; So many died but some survived and one survivor in particular Elie Wiesel author of Night tells his story of how at the age 16 he was deported to a concentration camp with his father and saw what took to survive. In those moments where Wiesel is describing what happened is where we decide is hope really the reason he survived or was it is fear? Fear; that is what the holocaust drove on. Fear gave Jews the need for survival as they began to notice that hope did nothing for them and neither did faith, from a response Elie says to a man who asked where god was,”this is where---hanging here from the gallows”(Wiesel 65).This shows that their

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