"What idea does the author develop regarding the nature or effect of threatening forces?"
             As human beings, we are often faced with choices, challenges, and threats as we
             grow and mature. Although how we act in these situations defines who we are, the
             underlying importance of these issues is how we come to our final decision and how we
             face the threats that lie before us. In Elie Wiesels's memoir Night, a huge groups of
             people have their lives threatened and taken away as Primo Levi said "... at a yes, or a
             no" and this shows just how predominant of an effect this threat had on the Jewish
             people. Many characters in this memoir chose to address this very real threat in different
             ways and because of this, the threat was allowed to flourish. The author, Elie Wiesel
             wrote this memoir in order to show the great evil that lurks inside of some humans and
             when that evil is unleashed, action must be taken to prevent it from turning cancerous and
             taking more casualties. The various threats brought up in this memoir have shown that a
             threatening force, no matter how small, has the ability to hurt us, turn us against each
             other and most of all, change the very foundation of which we stand.
             In taking away what one believes in, the ability to mold them into an object
             becomes well within grasp. Throughout Night, we are told how under Nazi command, the
             Jewish people were transformed from normal, hard working people into the "animals"
             that they became in the camps such as Buna, Birkenau, and Auschwitz. In threatening
             these people with their lives and the lives of their loved ones, the Jews were "persuaded"
             to follow the Nazi demands, and had no will to stand up against them. During the Second
             World War, the Nazis knew what there were doing and believed that in destroying the
             rules that the Jews lived by, their will to rebel,
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