Sadness is abundant in Night. Wiesel is separated from his family and is left with just his father. He survives because he was able to stay with his father. If anything else happens, the two must stay together. The two must survive together, otherwise there might as well be no point to enduring to the end. People have asked "Where is God?" and gave up their lives. Some saw the Holocaust as an ultimate test and decided to prove their worth. Either way, it was important to live to tell the tale to others, as Wiesel said, to warn others.
I think that to be able to survive, you need something to cherish; something to look forward to; something to care about. Wiesel had his father for cherishing. Wiesel was looking forward to the day when everything would go back to normal, like the good old days. Wiesel cared about his life, his existence. His strength grew from not wanting to give up. He came so far, it didn't seem right to give up. I think that even having gone through the Holocaust, Wiesel carried these irreplaceable thoughts. He had shown that he can survive if he has love, hope, and human emotion.
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Otdom, you are such a good writer! Whenever you write, I can always connect, and I am always interested, even if it is a sad topic that you are required to write about. I like how you wrote about Wiesel's 'not wanting to give up', which is what so many victims of the Holocaust did. The determination to not give up is probably the only thing that kept him, and all of the Holocaust survivors from dying. When you give up, it is like you are walking up to death and saying, 'Here, take my soul. It's more use in your hands than on earth anyways.' There are probably a lot more people who might have been able to survive if they had not just given up.
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