Night Journal #4: Survival
Due Friday 11/18
(1 page minimum in length – provide specific details to support your ideas)
Horrible circumstances, such as the ones that Elie Wiesel and the other Jews faced during the Holocaust, cause people to go into survival mode. When struggling to survive, people take desperate measures and act in ways that they normally may not. It can be difficult to balance one’s responsibility and love for their family with their instinct to survive.
What does Elie do to survive? How is Elie different from Rabbi Eliahu’s son? Have you ever been in a situation where you had to act in survival mode? How did your instinct to survive change your normal behavior? If you have never been in a position where you were fighting for survival, try to put yourself into the shoes of the Jewish people. How do you think you would respond? What lengths would you go through to survive?
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