Examples Of Father Son Relationship In Night By Elie Wiesel

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,

Elie's father was all he had, until he didn’t. In the book Night Elie’s relationship with his father changes over time. First, he is relying in his father to keep him safe and protect him. Second, he is worrying about his father and hoping he stays unharmed. Lastly, his father dies and he forgets about him completely.

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

Elie questioned and changed both relationships with his fathers when facing immense hardship. The difference between the deterioration

The SS group started to beat Elie’s father with an iron bar. Then tours the end Elie’s father dies. Night it is the evident that father and son is a very powerful theme. The theme of father and son is first shown when Elie’s father is getting sick when Elie’s father says that he is strong just like him and it seem he is trying to say that Elie’s should be how he was.

Though some could argue that Elizers father weakened him, this is simply not true because his father was his primary source of motivation to fight for their freedom. For instance, when on the train ride to the next camp, Elizers father had gone silent and unconscious. When the “gravediggers” come to clear the dead from the wagon, Eliezer realizes that his father is bound to be taken next. The author writes, “ Suddenly, the evidence overwhelmed me; there was no longer reason to live, any reason to fight” (Weisel 99). This line proves that

Situations are so awful within the concentration camp that he prefers the simplest foods, bread and soup, over his father. Each book has very unique father-son relationships, but similarities can still peek through. The father-son relationship is likewise comparable between the two books. They each start out in bad relationships with their fathers. Hiram’s relationship with his father starts out

Elie grew up without the same bond that many have with their fathers, and this resulted in him not being very close to his

Elie is depending on his father to keep him safe from an unfamiliar place that evokes the only piece of familiarity he has- his father. (transition) “I took a half a step forward. I wanted to see first where they were sending my father. If he went to the right, I would go after him” (Wiesel

For example, both of the fathers were by the narrator’s side, providing them with assurance giving them hope to continue surviving. Also, the fathers did everything in their power to help them survive, mainly by putting their child's needs before theirs, such as giving them more rations of food. It could be implied that the moral of each of the stories that the reader would need to grasp is that one should never give up in the hardest times. This can be seen as both narrators went on to survive the genocides and later on fit into more comfortable lifestyles. For example, Elie’s father’s presence allowed Elie to keep his strength to continue surviving.

Think of a circumstance where you were so hungry and thirsty, that you did not even care to think about your father anymore. That circumstance goes against common father-son relationships. The common father-son motif is where the father looks out and cares for the son. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, he explains why the circumstances around a father-son relationship can change their relationship, whether it 's for the better or the worse. Since the book is about the life of Elie in a Nazi concentration camp, the circumstances were harsh and took a toll on multiple father-son relationships.

Near the beginning of the novel, Elie wanted to be in the same camp with his father more than anything else. The work given to both his father and himself was bearable, but as time passed by, “. . . his father was getting weaker” (107). The weaker Elie’s father got, the more sacrifices Elie made. After realizing the many treatments Elie was giving his father compared to himself, each additional sacrifice made Elie feel as if his “. . .

Many examples of father-son relationships are shown throughout the book. Each example plays a crucial role in how the tale unfolds. Night shows a variety of father-son relationships, but only the relationship between Wiesel and his father was stable and ended on good terms. An example of one of the father-son relationships that were unstable and ended poorly was Rabbi Eliahou and his son.

Eliezer’s relationship with his father contrast with other father-son relationships because they