Elie Wiesel's 'Night': Character Analysis

Elie absolutely should have stayed in the infirmary back at Buna, for it was the best thing he could have done for his wounded foot, and the safest way for him and his father to stay warm and survive. Elie’s foot was in terrible condition and not at all fit for walking through thick snow with a mere blanket enveloping it to keep it somewhat warm. The stitches had already reopened before Elie even had left Buna, as shown when the book says, “My wound had reopened and was bleeding; the snow under my feet turned red.” (pg. 82) Although ut has not been confirmed by Elie, since he is no doctor of sorts, it is incredibly likely that his foot had become infected yet again, and it has to be recognized that this is extremely likely to be true. Obviously his reinfected foot would not last long because not only is …show more content…
His best chance at that was staying in the infirmary. Although the infirmary holds sick Jewish folk, they clearly are safer in the infirmary. Once Elie leaves the camp, many prisoners get trampled to death by other prisoners. That is incredibly dangerous, while the worst that could happen in the infirmary is Elie eating the hungarian Jewish man’s unclean food and getting dysentery from it. The poor boy assumed that the camp would be bombed, but there was no way the block commanders would have had time to set up enough explosives. They were desperate to evacuate the prisoners and distance themselves from the Red Army and did not want to waste any time. At one point Elie was almost crushed to death like his friend Juliek because he fled from the infirmary. This is shown in the story when it says, “Someone had lain down on top of me, smothering me. I couldn’t breathe through my mouth or my nose. Sweat was running down my nose. This was it; the end of the road. A silent death, suffocation. No way to scream, to call for help.” (pg. 94)It is clearly far more dangerous outside of the

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