#8217;t. . . .” He groaned. His trousers lowered, he let himself sink down. That’s the last picture I have of him. I don’t think it could be the SS who finished him, no one had noticed. He must have been trampled to death by the thousands of feet who followed us. (Wiesel, Elie. Night. Pg. 82)Zalman has lost all hope, and realizes that the only escape for him because of his lost hope is death. Which, because to his lack of energy or will to fight through his heart ship, he dies, escaping the horror of his world. When the energy and faith dies in Zalman so does he. Zalman in a sense murders himself due to his lack of hope and perseverance, he knew stopping meant death. Lowering self-esteem and faith is how the Nazis destroyed people. They destroyed their hope and desire to live.Because Elie Wiesel’s story of his life is real, it would be called a satire/irony, it is only because it is so horrific that it is called a tragedy. All people in the concentration camps felt the terror of the Nazi occupation. When a man sacrifices himself for a taste of soup, and when a believer like Zalman gives into the horrors of his life, this is when a true sense of evil and horror is felt. It is believed that the Nazis could take away your pride, money, family and religion, but the one thing they never really took was a person’s will to live. This is in part, is why not everyone died in those camps. Those few who had hope and didn’t give up are the people who survived. They did not try to escape the horror but they rather confronted it. All these men wandered in a maze of despair and misery where the only clear escape was death. Many chose death as a way out, but others looked for a way to over-come the horrific challenge to live. ...
