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NIGHT BY ELIE WIESEL REPORT

During extreme times a person can survive. One could look at NIGHT by Elie Wiesel. We can
see many different people in the book fighting to survive. By examining Elie and his
father one can see details of people fighting to survive. 
The book NIGHT shows that a person can survive extreme conditions.
For example Elie ran 42 miles in one night without stopping. This shows one can push
themselves just with the thought of living, even most athletes would have trouble running
this far. This also shows that something horrible could make someone stronger. At another
time in the book Elie watched his father being beaten. This shows that even though a
loved one is being hurt Elie still thinks about survival, because he knows that if he
intervened he would have been hurt or even worse killed. This also shows that one can
drop into a robot like state to stop his emotions, because if he felt sad or cried he
might have been harmed.
For example Elies father was a 50-year-old man and he survived for over 3 years in the
concentration camps. This shows that even an older person can fight to survive now days
being 50 and still doing things isn't that big a thing but back then there had not been
that many medical advancements. This also shows that someone can push themselves beyond
normal limits of human strength. At another time Elies father was beaten and he didn't
fight back. This shows that Elies father was strong enough to be beaten but a metal bar
was striking him and a normal person wouldn't have been able to put up with that but
since Elies father was thinking about surviving so he was stronger. 
This also shows that even though Elies father wanted to fight back (there's no actual
evidence of this but who wouldn't want to fight back?) He didn't because he knew that he
would have been killed if he fought back so by thinking about survival he knew he had to
be beaten. 
During extreme times a person can push themselves to live. In everyday life people take
hundreds of things for granite but when Elie was put into the concentration camps he had
everything taken away from him. From the book one can see how to treasure the simple
things in life. The book night showed many ways people survive Elie survived the
concentration camps and reading his story shows his hardships and Elies father even
though he didn't survive he still showed how a older man would fight to survive.