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FATE vs FREE WILL
The book Night talks about Elie, a young man living during the Holocaust period, trying
to survive the dreadful conditions he faces
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free will, the decisions you make that change where you are
headed
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Both chance and choice are what lead to Elie ending up
where he is now
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One instance was when a man told Elie and his father to lie about their age
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Forty
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Because the man
warned them about what was to come ahead, both Elie and his father made it through unharmed
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A
weight was lifted from my heart” (29)
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If they had said the truth, they would’ve been sent to the
right - the death highway
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This
change was beneficial as it saved Elie’s life
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A girl came over and helped him recover from the
treachery
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I felt a cool hand wiping my blood-stained
forehead
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She gave me her mournful smile and slipped a bit of bread into
my hand… ‘Bite your lip, little brother…” (50-51)
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When compared to the first incident, this event didn’t really drastically change his
destiny, rather it game him courage to continue through the dark times
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One
example of choice playing a major role is when Elie continually procrastinates his giving away
of the golden tooth
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The book says, “A few
days after this visit of mine, they close the dentist’s surgery, and he was thrown into prison
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It was alleged that he had been running a private traffic of his own in
the prisoners’ gold teeth” (50)
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He didn’t want to back down and give up his possessions, so he made the wise decision
of lying in order to never be taken advantage of
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This incident wouldn’t be classified as deadly, rather it would pave a
path for Elie to walk on to ultimately make it through the Holocaust
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The book states, “This day I had ceased to plead
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On the
contrary, I felt very strong
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My eyes were open and I was
alone-terribly alone in a world without god and without man
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I had
ceased to be anything but ashes, yet I felt myself to be stronger than the Almighty, to whom my
life had been tied to for so long
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This explains how Elie personally decided to give up his faith in god in order to
give him the strength and power that he needed to survive
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By eating and not focusing on praying, he could focus on ways to go through this
dreadful period of time
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His
choice against the supernatural was what made him truly a responsible person
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In this book, Elie Wiesel encounters many opportunities where he could have either
chosen or have it chosen for him
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Chance and choice both helped him get through to liberation and continue
courageously through the Holocaust
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