Joe Rantz and Elie Wiesel demonstrated resilience in the books, Night, and Boys in the boat, by reflecting back all the hatred and discomfort, but also from never giving up when there family or loved one passed away or betrayed them. When Rantz and Elie didn’t have much growing up and what they did have was taken from them.When Wiesel's dad died all his dad could leave him was some silverware. After watching everyone they ever loved die or betray them made them want to push to succeed and triopth with success.
When Wiesel was being taken into the concentration camps he thought that he was just being held until everything was over. But when the Nazis started slaughtering the other Jews he knew what he was in for.Elie Wiesel shows that he is