How Does Elie Wiesel Show Courage

Eliezer or Elie Wiesel was torn away from his good life, where he was with his family, and forced into another life full of suffering, and misery. After being captured by the Schutzstaffel (SS), he lost all of his possessions, was separated from his mother and sisters, given very little food, and lost control of his life. Why did he not give up? Why did he still fight when everything around him was going horribly wrong? It was his human spirit that helped him pass through such hardship. It gave him the strength to fight and not give up. Many of his fellow prisoners did not have the inner strength as that displayed by Elie through his courage, selflessness, and control of his anger toward everything around him.

Elie consistently demonstrated courage during his time as a prisoner of the SS. His will to live for his father even when faced with near death situations shows the strength of his moral courage. “The idea of dying, ceasing to be, began to fascinate me…To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot…My father’s presence was the only thing that stopped me (Wiesel 86).” He is aching in pain and wishes to die but shows courage and keeps running for …show more content…
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, a mass gathered to pray but Elie mind and spirit rebelled. “Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because he caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves (Wiesel 67)?” Elie was angry towards God for creating a place such as Auschwitz and allowing all these innocent people to die. He was so angry that he was reluctant to wish his father a happy year, because he no longer believed. As a child, he celebrated the Sabbath and Holy days but he no longer believed so he felt empty inside. “… I felt myself to be stronger than this Almighty to whom my life had been bound for so long (Wiesel 68).” It was here that he realized that his human spirit was strong enough to sustain him without the help of

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