Section 5-6

"I was simply walking in my sleep. I manage to close my eyes and to run like that while sleep." (Wiesel 93).

As the prisoners where evacuated to the next camp the wounded where to be left, the slackers killed, and only the strong willed could keep living. Eliezer had the will to survive, to keep up, despite his wounded foot. The will to live, kept them running on.

"As we were not allowed to bend down,  everyone took out their spoon and ate the accumulated snow off his neighbor's back. A mouthful of bread and a spoonful of snow." (Wiesel 102).

When the surviving men where evacuated from their new camp, all of them had to stand and wait for the transport train to arrive. In their bundles of clothing in the freezing cold, all of them where given bread and no water. So to solve this issue one man decided to scoop up the snow off his neighbor. This was more proof that they where not mindless animals, they are still men despite what horrors they have seen and gone through.