The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once said: “The worst sin towards our fellow men is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; this is the essence of inhumanity.” Inhumanity is the worst characteristic of humanity. Ordinary human beings are sometimes pushed to the point where they have no choice but to think about themselves. This indifference can lead to inhumanity. One of the most famous examples used today is the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night, demonstrates how fear is a deliberate force that drives people to act in ways they never thought possible. After being forced into concentration camps, Elie and his family saw and performed such cruel acts that traumatized him for life. His fears rob Elie of his innocence and lead him to lose his faith along with the breakdown of close relationships. Throughout the book, it is clear that Elie has a constant struggle with faith in God. Before Auschwitz, Elie was eager, even motivated, to learn about Jewish mystics. Yet, after being exposed to the reality of the concentration camps, Elie began to question God. According to Elie, God “burned thousands of children… He operated six crematoria day and night… He created Auschwitz, Birkenau [and] Buna” (67). Elie couldn't believe the atrocity happening around him. He couldn't believe that the God he follows would tolerate such things. In moments of pain, when everyone prayed and sanctified His name, Elie no longer wanted to praise the Lord; He was on the verge of giving up. The fact that the “Terrible Master of the Universe chose to remain silent” (33) made Elie lose hope and faith. Keeping quiet about such inhumanity is just as destructive as those who cause the savagery. Elie couldn't believe... half the paper... or adulthood. When Elie was finally released and for the first time in years he saw himself in a mirror and “from the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed upon him” (115). Although Elie physically survived Auschwitz, he was emotionally dead. The numerous traumatizing experiences he had undergone affected Elie in such a way that he lost his innocence along with his will to live. His reason for survival was purely luck. Fear can cause people to irrationalize their thinking and act unreasonably. For example, fear of death leads prisoners to deprioritize people close to them. Even disbelief towards such an indifferent God in such a short time is considered unreasonable. From the beginning, Elie was forced to become an adult without choice. Well, if inhumanity and fear can turn people into animals, how does Elie avoid this fate??