Archbishop Desmond Tutu once said, “a person is a person through other people.” The people we meet in life are the ones who make us who we are today; the conflicts, situations and times we experienced and spent with them and the support they offer are what make our character. I agree with Archbishop Desmond Tutu as his ideas are conveyed in Richard Wright's Black Boy and Elie Wiesel's Night through conflicts and important ideas such as the Milgram experiment and the hierarchy of needs by Maslow. In Black Boy by Richard Wright, Richard goes through many events and conflicts with others that determined his character at the time. For example, at the very beginning of the novel, Richard's father comes out of his room and heads out into the garden, shouting at Richard and his brother to quiet a cat so it can sleep. He didn't care what they did as long as they kept him quiet, even if they killed him. At the time, Richard's image of his father was only when he was yelling at them to stop playing; Richard expressed so much hatred and contempt towards his father that he decided to take his words literally and kill the cat. He wanted to demonstrate his hatred towards his father without getting into trouble, he wanted to upset him. This illustrates that Richard's father created a little murderer inside Richard or at least turned him into a violent young boy. As Richard grew up, he was turned into a racist boy by his neighbors and school friends. At first, Richard chanted racist songs to himself and his friends against Jews, not realizing that he was being discriminated against Jews, just as he was being discriminated against by whites. On the other hand, Richard was raised for this by his parents and it was in the middle of paper ......s of Maslow's hierarchy of needs since Elijah preferred his security to his physiological needs which, in fact, this is what allowed Elijah to survive the holocaust. Elijah's father gave him a reason to live; even after his death, Elie only lived for his stomach while keeping in mind that he does it for his father and to maintain his memory. Throughout our lives we will meet many people; they will evaluate us, seek us, break us and make us happy. But it’s what we experience with them that makes us who we are today. This can be proven in various ways in Black Boy and Night by authors Richard Wright and Elie Wiesel. The main characters of both novels went through many trials and encountered many more, but they did not stop at each of them and did not give up. They benefited from each person they met and learned from their experiences, which then helped them overcome other obstacles..