Night Themes by: Rosy

1. "Interplay between fear and foresight when individuals make life altering choices"
- Eliezer's father makes the decision to move on with the camp instead of staying at the hospital where Elie was being treated for his foot
- man who dies stealing soup during the air raid
- lying, saying that he is a farmer when the man asks for his occupation
2. "Personal resourcefulness"
- drinking a spoonful of snow
- lying that he is sick when the doctor wants his gold crown
- moving about so that they will not freeze when they are too cold even to stand up in the cattle wagons
3. "The impact of significant experience on the individual"
- being angry at his father for not knowing how to avoid punishment
- questioning God's existence after the boy is hanged
- when the youth says, "long live liberty. Curse upon Germany" before he is hanged
4. "Responses to circumstances beyond familiar experience."
- Elie considers suicide instead of the crematory as he enters the camp.
- laughing when he discovers Idek sleeping with the Polish woman
- when Juliek plays his violin during the night
5. "The role that self-preservation plays when individuals respond to competing demands."
- a man killing his father for a crust of bread
- running for 42 miles through snow and exhaustion
- when the Rabbi's son abandons his father during the travel to Gleiwitz