Why does Elie's father, Shlomo, seem to have more of a will to live than his friend Meir Katz?
(Night by elie weisel)
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Night by Elie Weisel
Meir Katz was a friend of the narrator's father Shlomo. He had been a robust, jovial gardener at the Buna camp.
Initially he was optimistic about life and tried to keep everyone in good cheer but slowly his spirits dampened when he witnessed the torture of the Nazis on the Jews.
When all the Jews were being made to travel an extremely arduous journey from one concentration camp to another they were subject to immense pain and brutality.
Many a time one Jew took the life of the other in search of food or to grab the other's share. In the cattle wagon death was aplenty and sometimes even living people who had collapsed of weakness were hauled out as dead.
The narrator himself was once strangled almost to death by a fellow traveller only to be saved by Meir Katz.
But these atrocities took there toll on Katz's mind. He felt it would be less torturous and far better to die than to go to the concentration camp and suffer more.
Shlomo on the other hand believed that those hard days would not last forever and freedom would once again be restored to them.
So Shlomo seemed to have more of a will to live than his friend Meir Katz.
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