What Does Food Symbolize In Night By Elie Wiesel
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Wiesel uses food as a motif which symbolizes survival. The need for it was very crucial for the jews. People died from the lack of food, which was an effective tactic used to exterminate the Jewish race. Since food was a huge deal in Auschwitz people even died trying to defend the food they had and trying to get food from others. Ellie describes the food as "It tasted as though they fed us garbage from the 17th century" which was usually a bowl of watery soup (page 78 ). After the Jews were freed from Buchenwald, the United States army would offer the Jews food out of generosity because of the terrible starvation that previously occurred and many people died because of eating. There body's were overwhelmed with this food and eventually shut