If they were not told to turn left just in the nick of time, they both could have been off to the …show more content… While he is there, a very frail Hungarian jew warns him to leave before the next selection. The inmate increased the chances of survival by telling them to lie, but even so, it wasn't enough. Despite the inmates helpful advice, they are walking towards the flames until they are ordered to turn left and go toward the barracks (34). They are told to lie and say that Elie is eighteen and his father is forty to avoid disintegrating to ashes like the many others unfathomable fate (30). …show more content… They pass by an intimidating angry inmate who asks them both how old they are.
He goes against his fathers wishes and stumbles upon Moishe the Beadle, who is a poor, homeless foreign jew who helps him in the study of Kabbalah. He even begs his father to let him study Kabbalah which isn't typically studied until around the age of 30. In the beginning of the book, Elie is 15 and deeply observant. Elie survived the concentration camps by chance and lives to tell all about the traumatizing experiences he faced. Taken from his home as a teenager, and immediately separated from his mother and little sister Tzipora upon arrival to the deadly camp, Elie does what he can to ensure he and his father survive.
In the book Night, Elie Wiesel faces horrifying trials and tribulations to survive the harrowing concentration camp Auschwitz.