APR-6-2015
by Boudreaux, William
for English I – 3rd period

Fear is a strong emotion and can cause people to not do something that they want to do.Whether it’s from being scared to join the theater program or taking driving test for the first time fear affects people’s lives by causing people to break down.Sometimes fear can cause people to get an adrenalin rush which could help someone complete a task just like Eile did in Night.
One of fears effects on people is causing them to break down on the outside and on the inside.For example,in Night Elie’s father is a strong sturdy man at the beginning he tells Eile that the beatings don’t hurt,stay strong in their beliefs as Jew’s, and even gives up some of his food.But as the continues to get beat,give up his food and question what he believes in, fear starts to take over and he begins to break down the father on the outside.He eventually completely breaks down on the inside and outside and gives Eile the family spoon and the next morning when Eile returned from work his father is no longer there because fear has caused him to give up.
In addition,just as fear has taken over Elie’s father and caused him to break down and die Elie has the thought of just stopping his run through the snow and get shot but when he sees his friend fall to the ground and give up he doesn’t hear any gunshots and realizes that when his friend falls no one stopped running so that meant he got trampled by all of the other Jews who were running behind Eile.That puts fear in Eile’s body which helps keep him on running all the way to the camp and the fear that he has helps him survive the Holocaust.
Overall,fear has many effects on people’s lives but some of them are good like the one Eile had when he saw his friend give up and die.