Humankind is Selfish and Cruel.

In the concentration camp, “it is every man for himself, and you cannot think of others” (Wiesel 110). This quote from the book “Night” reminds us about how cruel and selfish people can be in a place like concentration camp, they will do anything to survive and benefit themselves such as betraying, stealing things, and killing other people. Although some people seem good, even they have bad within them, especially if it is about their lives, since the human instinct is to survive and they will do everything to reach that goal. People are born naturally selfish and cruel, they only care about themselves, therefore they will do anything to benefit themselves. One example would be betraying, in a situation like the Holocaust, people betraying other …show more content…
‘Too late to save your old father.You could have two rations of bread, two rations of soup.’” (Wiesel 110-111). This quote shows that Elie has bad within him, which is to steal his father bread and soup, he’s just not daring to admit it, but based on this, we can theoretically say that if his father didn’t die earlier, Elie would’ve killed him and stole his food the way the boy did to his father as mentioned in the first body paragraph. People think that humankind is good because there are good people that help each other when they need it, especially when someone is getting bullied since people will help them get revenge. I believe that people have the purpose to help you, they might help you to gain your trust and use it against you. In my personal experience, in 7th grade, a student asked me to work together on two assignments. I thought he was kind, he knew I don’t have anyone to work with anyway so I said “sure”. Then that student said he would do the first assignment, I agree but then I noticed that the second one is way harder than the first one. I then realized that I was tricked, that student used me to do the harder one, the one that he can’t do