Night quotes part 3

"We received more blows then food; we were crushed with work."(Wiesel 83). 


I can't imagine how the narrator must be feeling right now. This quote really shows how hard the concentration camps were. The prisoners were hungry, overworked, and injured. The people in the concentration camps were placed there for no other reason then their religion. After a while the people would start to lose hope and become upset like Elie and his father show by this quote. The Nazis took power in 1933 and World War 2 began in 1939 so many of the prisoners had to stay in the camps a very long time.                                                                                                                    

"Patients will stay in the infirmary. They will not be evacuated." (Wiesel 87).


When you read this quote you can really feel all of Elie's emotions. His heart drops and he becomes scared of what will happen to him. He suddenly doesn't feel safe in the hospital anymore and wants his foot to be all better. Elie has a good reason to fear, because he knows that the doctor talking to him or, more likely, a solider will kill him. This was very common at concentration camps.  Prisoners were moved from one camp to another leaving behind the sick and wounded (who were seen as useless) to die. During World War 2 there was no safe place in a concentration camp--not even the infirmary.