Night Essay

Tunir Kapil

English H

Ms. Leach

The Gift of the Human Spirit

The numerous amounts of people that have been disrespected or victimized have tried their hardest to endure in life. Yet most people end up giving up on life when they begin to suffer or lose something very valuable to themselves but there is always a trivial amount of people that use all their remaining strength in their body to survive these conditions. During the holocaust many Jews had used all there remaining strength even though they were given a small amount of food to survive. Ellie Wiesel express in the book Night how he survives the holocaust and how the strength of the human spirit can be sparked and make one survive through the toughest and darkest moments even though there is no strength and vigor in one’s physique.

The human spirit can be uncovered in many different ways without someone knowing. Elie Wiesel parades the strength of the human spirit in many different ways throughout the book. One of the first ways that Elie spectacles the strength of the human spirit is when the Kapo had entered that block and told them that they were coming to do the selection. “It was my turn. I ran without out looking back.” The selection had made Elie forget about everything except to survive for his father and because of this it made him try his hardest even though he was getting a trivial amount of food to eat. Although he had become weak from not getting the nourishment an average person needs, he used the remaining strength he had and it had been awakened making him pass the longest run that Elie had ever imagined. Later on in the book Elie finds out that his father doesn’t pass the selection and he has to go for another selection. “Don’t talk like that, Father.” This illustrates that although Elie knew his father was between life and death the strength of the human spirit allowed him to continue on in life. It had made Elie believe that his father could survive and made him had faith. Elie had...