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Night by Eliezer Wiesel

Wiesel used characterization to characterize himself as selfish to show that he still loved his dad but hunger was keeping him from giving up on him.
             Elie is more often unselfish because he did anything he could to always be by his father's side. He sacrificed his rations of food so that he could have a bunk with his dad when one of the men in charge was assigning the bunks. "Would you like to be into a good kommando? Of course. But on one condition: I want to stay with my father " (Wiesel 48). At that moment, the man wanted Elie's shoes but he said that he'd rather not get his rations of soup and bread. He also didn't want to give the man his shoes because they were new and he liked them. Elie is more often unselfish because he'd rather sleep on the same bunk with his dad instead of getting his daily rations of food. "Father! Father! Wake up. They're going to throw you outside " (Wiesel 99). This happened when they were on the train on their way to another camp and once it stopped the prisoners were commanded to throw out all the dead people off the train. Elie's father had fallen asleep and the men were yelling at him to throw his father outside, but he did everything he could to wake him up and keep him on the train. That is why Elie is most often viewed as unselfish. "For a ration of bread I was able to exchange cots to be next to my father " (Wiesel 108). Elie continued to give up his food just to be next to his father during work. He'd rather eat less and starve to be with his dad at all times. Wiesel used characterization to characterize himself as unselfish by giving up his food to help his father through his hard times. .
             Most often Elie is kind because he has always helped everyone around him. For example, the day of the transportation Elie and his sisters had a duty which was to serve water to the Jews that were going to be sent to the camp. "Water, Mother, I am thirsty My sisters and I were still able to move about as we were destined for the last convoy, and so we helped as best as we could " (Wiesel 16).


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