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“Moishe was not the same. The joy in his eyes was gone. He no longer sang. He no longer mentioned either God or Kabbalah. He only spoke of what he had seen. But the people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen” (Wiesel pg.7)

Here, we see Eliezer speak of how Moishe, who was once a joyful, kind, and religious person, change into a person who was scared of what the Nazis could do to the people of Sighet.

This event best relates to the theme of individual survival vs the collective good, but here it's mainly for the collective good of all the people in SIghet. Moishe tries to warn them all of what might happen to them but the people of Sighet refuse to listen, until later in the chapter, the things that Moishe warn them about happen.

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‘Infront of us, those flames. In the air, the smell of burning flesh. It must’ve been around midnight. We had arrived in Birkenau.” (Wiesel pg. 28)

Eliezer recounts his earliest memory of arriving in the camps, and he paints a picture in our heads of how it might’ve been like, and gives as an unimaginable scent to go along with the picture.

We get a glimpse of whatever torture may be inside, and since there was nobody to tell the Germans otherwise, Eliezer, along with the people from Sighet, just had to accept their fate. This event best relates to state-sponsored violence because there was nobody to stop the Germans from running these camps.

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“Never shall I forget those things, even if I were condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never” (Wiesel pg.34)

Eliezer promises to himself that he will never forget the atrocities committed in the camps, and all of the torture that happens in the camp.

Eliezer no longer had a life of his own, and so did the other prisoners, and even causes Eliezer to question God because he thinks that God chose to stay silent about this whole situation.  State-sponsored violence best describes what happens throughout the chapter because the Nazis tossed people into the fire pits, and took away the desire to live from people, and dehumanized them.

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“Then the entire camp, block after block, filed past the hanged boy and stared at his extinguished eyes, the tongue hanging from his gaping mouth. The Kapos forced everyone to look him squarely in the face.” (Wiesel pgs. 62-63)

A young Polish boy stole from the camp during an air raid, and as a result, he was punished with death by hanging from the gallows.

Eliezer recounts how thousands of people died each day in the crematoria, but he was no longer troubled by those deaths, but this hanging upsets Eliezer. State-sponsored violence best describes what happens here because a minor crime, such as stealing, should not be punishable by death, but here the Germans don’t care what happens to you, in the camps they only they only know to torture, and kill.

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“But look at these men whom You have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise Your name” (Wiesel pg. 68)

Eliezer strongly feels within him, the absence of God throughout all that has happened within the camps, the horrible things the Nazis subjected their prisoners to.

Eliezer no longer had a reason to follow the teachings of his faith, and that was because throughout the events of the book, God has chosen to stay silent, and not save them from the torture they are subjected to. This event strongly relates to the theme of struggle with religious faith because Eliezer views on his religion slowly begin to falter, and he no longer pleaded for forgiveness of his sins because he didn't feel a need to do that anymore.

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”Near me, men were collapsing into the dirty snow. Gunshots.’ (Wiesel pg. 86)

Eliezer, along with the rest of the prisoners march to Gleiwitz non stop, exhausting the prisoners, and causing some to die during the march.

Eliezer ran to Gleiwitz as his life literally depended on him to stop thinking and just run. Individual survival best describes this event because the prisoners all had to rely on themselves to not stop while they ran or they would be finished off on the spot, whereas the Nazis could rest and be replaced by their comrades, the prisoners had nobody ro replace them.

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“‘No! I yelled. ‘He’s not dead! Not yet!’

And I started to hit him harder and harder. At last, my father half opened his eyes. They were glassy. He was breathing faintly.

‘You see,’ I cried.” (Wiesel pg. 99)

Eliezer panics as he sees the “gravediggers” walk towards Eliezer’s father to toss him out of the train so Eliezer starts slapping his father out of fear of losing his father.

People started dropping like flies, and so “gravediggers” started tossing bodies into the cold snow outside of the train car. Family loyalty best relates to this because we see here that Eliezer wants both himself and his father to survive the war.

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“‘I see, my son. I do see them. Let them sleep. They haven’t closed an eye for so long… THey’re exhausted…exhausted…’

His voice was tender. I howled into the wind: ‘They’re dead! They will never wake up! Never! Do you understand?” (Weisel pg. 105)

After entering the new camp, in this heart-touching moment, we see Eliezer begin to yell at his father for wanting to rest, but for the reason of survival.

Eliezer pleaded with his father to not rest by the corpses because Eliezer knew that whoever rested there had died, and also as seen in the last chapter, he wants his father to survive the war. Family loyalty best relates to this event because just like the last chapter, we see Eliezer in this moment begin to cling onto his father, more than he ever had before, until his father’s very last breath.

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“The SS had fled and the resistance had taken charge of the camp. At six o’clock that afternoon, the first American tank stood at the gates of Buchenwald” (Wiesel pg.115)

The Nazis were about to lose the war, and as a result, they try to blow up the camps, but it was too late because the underground resistance of the camp took action, and scared away all of the SS soldiers and turned themselves into free men.

After losing his father, Eliezer was on his own and he had lost all hope, and nothing else mattered to him, his own survival solely relied on his will to live. The theme that best fits this event is individual survival because there was nobody to guide him anymore, so he had to guide himself to live, long after he had been liberated by the Americans, and long after the war had ended.