Elzer's Relationship With His Father In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

All of that was about to change. Elie gets sent to the German concentration camp Auschwitz following the timeline of World War II. He would not be freed from these camps for another 11 months. During this time Elie would bare witness to some of the most gruesome and grotesque things to ever occur on earth. “Babies.

Many people live for other people, that is why relationships are so important. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the motif of father/son relationship develops to characters of Elie and his father by needing each other for survival and giving one another a reason to live. In the beginning of the novel, Elie and his father did not have a close relationship,

In the book Night there are a number of father and sons that Elie and his father meet during their time in the concentration camps. Wisel focuses on these father-son relationships throughout the entire book. These relationships show the inward meaning of Elie and his father’s relationship. Wisel gives many of these scenarios and is very detailed in explaining them. Elie and his father’s relationship may have been strong, but everything comes to an end at night.

Elie and his father relationship changes as both of them go through more hardships. At the end Elie began to think that his father was sort of a burden and he feels guilty for thinking this of his father. Elie looks up to his father in the beginning of the book because his father is a respected member of the Jewish community. Elie’s father refused to be his mentor due to the fact that he did not agree with his decision to study mysticism.

Before going to the camps Elie and his father was not very close. For example Elie father is unsentimental towards his own kids but very sentimental towards the community and its people. Elie said”My father was cultured man rather unsentimental. ”(Pg.4) This shows that Elie his father

Starting the story Elie is relatively normal he was a child chasing dreams in his town of Sighetu. As the story continues, we learn that his father refused to leave the town because none of them can believe that anybody can be that

Why did some prisoners in the Holocaust survive? Why them over the others? When many look at the Holocaust, they envision mass hordes of people being killed off or sent to other camps. The reason certain people survived is because of the unique advantages they had over the other camp members. In the Narrative, Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie’s loss of various aspects of his life are what give him an advantage and contribute to his survival.

Elie Wiesel's main support and where he got his will to live was his Father, Shlomo Wiesel. Although that is where he got his support, his relationship with his father changed drastically; this is shown throughout the book, but it is not focused on. Since it is not focused on as a main part of the book Night I will focus on it today. At the start of the book his dad is really not talked about, in fact the first mention of his father is on page 4; where elie wiesel asks, “...

In the camps, Elie and his father only had each other, and that changed the way they felt about each other from the very beginning. Elie had almost no relationship with his father prior to the holocaust. Back in his hometown of Sighet, Elie's father was a busy community leader, and his work gave him little time for his family. Elie recalls that his father "rarely displayed his feelings... and was more involved with the well welfare of others than with that of his own kin" (Wiesel

“After Elie’s father died he almost felt like a burden was lifted off his chest and he could become a child again. No longer did Elie have to worry about taking care of his father, he now had the ability to fully take care of himself. The camp was not a place for someone to have to make the transition between child to adult. After his dad died, Elie was able to be finally free again”

He helped to teach his father how to march, he was mad at the officer when he was beating his father, and he took care of his father when he was sick. After the story went on, he began to think of his father as a burden. His father was sick and could not do things on his own. Elie gave food to his father, he got him water, and he did anything

Elie describes himself is deeply religious. Elie is a young boy who lives in Sighet with his family. He is the only son, he has three sisters. Elie mentions that he is closest to his mother. Elie would like to be closer to his father.

When they first arrived at Auschwitz Elie and his father looked to each other for support and survival, Sometimes Elie’s father being the only thing keeping him alive. In their old community Elie’s father was a strong-willed and respected community leader, as the book went on you could see how the roles were becoming reversed he was becoming weaker and more reliant on Elie to take care of him. Their father son bond had always been strong and only grew stronger with the things they had to endure. “My God, Lord of the Universe, give me strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahou’s son has done” Elie was disgusted when he saw Rabbi Eliahou’s son abandon his father to help improve his chances of his survival he prayed he’d never do such a thing, but as his father becoming progressively more reliant on Elie he started to see his father as more of a burden than anything else.

Elie’s relationship with his dad over the course of the story changed drastically. The quote, “My father was running left to right exhausted, consoling friends,” (pg 15) shows the reader that Elie 's father tried to keep everyone calm, which means he always did the same for Elie. That shows they had a strong relationship at the start of the story. Accordingly, the quote, “Father! Father!

Elie 's inaction or inability to help his father and his guilt for not doing so helped Elie to shape the person he has become now is because he kept on realizing his stand on the situation on the harsh behavior towards his father. As he starts to live more with his father he became started to realize how important he was to him and how important he is for him. In the book Night, Chapter 7, when Elie and his after were on the cattle car he said"My father had huddled near me, draped in his blanket, shoulders laden with snow. And what if he were dead as well? I called out to him.