The ground is frozen, parents sob over their children, stomachs growl, stiff bodies huddle together to keep slightly warm. This was a recurring scene during World War II. Night is a literary memoir about Elie Wiesel's time in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel created a character reminiscent of himself with Eliezer. Eliezer experienced cruelty, stress, fear, and inhumanity at a very young age, fifteen. Through this, he struggled to maintain his Jewish faith, survive with his father, and endure the hardships imposed on his body and mind. At the beginning of the book, Eliezer was at the highest levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. This hierarchy starts at the bottom with physiological needs and progresses upwards with needs for safety, belonging and love, esteem, and finally self-actualization. Eliezer was working with his needs for love and belonging in regards to his religion. He was obsessed with the Jewish scriptures. He wanted to learn. He was an extremely intellectual teenager. He would study the Hebrew scriptures with Moche the Beadle. "We read the same page of the Zohar together, ten times. Not to learn it by ear, but to extract the divine essence from it." His views on the divinity of God did not survive during the Holocaust and concentration camps. When Eliezer and his father Chlomo arrived at their first concentration camp, Eliezer was in emotional agony. Consider running towards the power line to escape the "slow agony in the flames". His father responds by crying and reciting the prayer of the dead. “May his name be blessed and magnified” This tests Eliezer's faith for the first time. “Why should I bless His name… what should I thank Him for,” he said… in the middle of the paper… take away freedom of thought. He will remain with us until the end of time. Viktor E. Frankl illustrated this in his essay “An Inner Freedom” from the book Man's Search for Meaning. He stated: “The kind of person the prisoner became was the result of an internal decision and not the result of amplifier influences alone.” Night by Elie Wiesel is a very sad book. The struggle Eliezer had to endure is similar to the one we all face. Eliezer's was during the Holocaust. Ours can happen in any period of life. If we set our priorities in our hearts, nothing can change them except ourselves. Nighttime is a great example of this internal struggle and the backward progress possible with Maslow's hierarchy of needs. It teaches that the mind is truly “above all.” As Frankl wrote, “man's inner strength can elevate him above his outer destiny,” whatever the circumstances..