... is competing with the other Holocaust sufferers for his life. For obvious reasons, the Holocaust sufferers are extremely possessive of their food. A man desperate for food decides to get some soup for himself from the cauldron when no one is looking. "He reached for the first cauldron. Hearts raced: he had succeeded. Jealousy consumed us [Wiesel and inmates], burning us up ... like a straw. We never thought for a moment of admiring him. Poor hero, committing suicide for a ration of soup! In our thoughts we were murdering him- (Wiesel 57). The reader expects that Wiesel would be happy fo...

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... hit us" (Pres 1976). People died by being forced to work with a terrible sick, or even not eating anything for days. The daily meals in Auschwitz camp consisted of watery soup which was cooked by water, salt, and little rice. They contributed once a day, but the prisoners had to work for the whole day, that was ridiculous because they didn't have ... ...

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