<Tab/>"Necessity is the mother of invention". This is a very famous quote that is widely accepted worldwide. But when invention is impossible, something else must be compromised to compensate this need. When people are pushed over the edge and do not have their physical needs met, they turn to invention's brother, "Corruption" and become corrupted and become callused to the suffering and pain of others. There are many examples of this in Elie Wiesel's, Night. Three examples of this in the book are when Rabbi Eliahou is abandoned by his son, when the men of the train fight each other, and when Wiesel is emotionally unaffected by his own father's death.
The first example of this corruption in Night was how Rabbi Eliahou's son abandoned his father while being transported to another camp. …