Answer: In Night, what makes the soup taste better than ever after the first hanging is that Elie and the others are still alive. They are allowed to return to their bunks and eat their daily ration of watered down soup. The actual taste does not matter. What matters in this scene is that they have survived another day. This scene also shows how inured the prisoners have become to death because it is all around them. If they were to stop and mourn each death that they witness, none of them would be able to go on. None of them would survive the camps.
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