“All I could hear was the violin, and it was as if Juliek’s soul had become his bow. He was playing his life. His whole being gliding over the strings…How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and the dying?” (Wiesel 95, Blue Book). This shows that sometimes there could be light in dark times, but it never lasts forever because in the morning Elie found the boy dead next to his crushed violin.
“A small red flame… A shot…Deat h enveloped me, it suffocated me. It stuck to me like glue. I felt I could touch it. The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing” (Wiesel 86, Blue book). The symbol flames is shown in this quote and how it related to death. The author uses glue as simile to express how he felt at that very moment, which was trapped. He also sees death not as a terrible thing, but a way as to escape the pain. 
“His son had seen him losing ground, sliding back to the rear of the column. He had seen him. And had continued to run in front, letting the distance between them become greater.” (Wiesel 91, Blue Book).
Even if relationships between people seemed strong they started to deteriorate after a while. The camps changed people so much that even a son would be willing to leave his father behind.