Father Son Bond In Night By Elie Wiesel

Have you ever wondered how it would feel if you had to go through a horrific historic event? Well, Eliezer Wiesel was one survivor of a historic event, the Holocaust. After the tragedies, he witnessed he made the book “Night”. The memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel is about the importance of their father-son relationship. Elie and his father have always been side by side each day, no matter what.

Night, by Elie Wiesel shows how traumatic events can bring families closer together through the character relationships of Elie and his father, as well as through the sinister setting of the concentration camps. The characters are the main way that Elie shows the development of a father-son relationship, however the shift in the relationship wouldn't be possible without the horrid setting that the characters had to live through. The characters in Night show how bad times can lead to a positive development in relationships. Before Elie and his father arrived at the camps, they had a strained relationship.

Every father in the world has a different relationship with their son. And not all relationships can be the best. In the story, Night, there are 3 different father and son relationships. Elie and his father, Rabbi Eliahou and his son, and the man who stole bread and his son Meir. Elie and his father are incomparable to Rabbi Eliahou and his son and Meir and his father.

Elie and his father we inseparable. Elie even cause a distraction to make sure he stayed with his father. They were basically living for each other. Elie only wanted to live because he knew it was the only thing keeping his father alive. Unlike the other two father son groups, They had hope.

Itzhak Stern, Elie Wiesel. At first glance, Two very, very different people. Which, in a sense,besides both being jewish, they are; but there’s a lot that wouldn’t be expected in terms of their similarities. With Elie seeming very independant, and in a way ruthless. Itzhak is entirely on the other side of the spectrum.

But when Elie felt like just giving up, he was thinking about his dad, and that gave him the motivation to keep going. Elie never gave up and always tried to stay strong for his father because he knew his father would be doomed without him. In the text it states, “The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain in my foot.

And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!...”. I wasn’t really surprised how Elie reacted when he found out that his father died because he wasn’t that same boy in the beginning of the book. Also he takes it as if it were a pain of his back. And I don’t blame him for his reaction because throughout the book, he has to do a lot for his father could live, by teaching him things like how to march, and what to do with the selection, etc, and even when they took his father from him in the selection, he took the risk of going after him and making a panic that made everybody get out of hand. And now that his father died, I can understand that Elie worrying of his father if he was dying, or a SS guard was going to kill him, or prisoners killing, or because his health was bad, wasn’t going to be a Problem or something to think about anymore.

Thanks to his father, Elie learned to take care of someone and how to survive by himself. You're family is going to be there for you, they are your blood and that bond between you all cannot be

Wake up, they’re going to throw you out the side!” (pg 99) shows the reader that midway through the story Elie still really cared about his father and did not want him to die. He still had hope that his dad could survive. However, this quote at the end of the story, “I no longer thought of my father,” (pg 113) showed that he lost all hope and only thought about himself and his own health due to the circumstances. Also, Elie was not the only son going through

However, Elie’s father was obstinate, begging to rest because he was so unbearably weak. The one-sided quarrel caused Elie to admit, “I knew that I was no longer arguing with him but with Death itself, with Death that he had already chosen” (105). Elie had previously demonstrated the strength to fight for his life, but his father didn’t possess that same strength. He sought release from his

The empathy he felt for his father is what drove him to stay alive, to fight for his life. Without his father, he would have given into exhaustion long before the American tanks arrived at the camp. Elie's father gave him strength, therefore giving him resilience. Strong people are resilient people; it took everything Elie had to keep himself alive. In the times he wanted so badly just to lie down, to give up it was his father's presence which kept him alive.

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.

Most people forget that each day is a gift, and that we are lucky to be here and living life. For Elie, survival was crucial to him. His instincts kicked in and he was barely alive by the time it all ended. It almost came down to every man for himself; he almost left his dad to die. Elie just wanted to make it out alive and in the end he did.

“I realized that he did not want to see what they were going to do to me. He did not want to see the burning of his only son”(42). When Eliezer arrives at Auschwitz, the separation of his family puts an emotional toll on his father since he realizes that only him and Eliezer are still alive. This will be a catalyst to their relationship becoming stronger as they endure more together. Elie Wiesel, the author of the novel Night writes his own personal accounts of experiencing the Holocaust through the character Eliezer.

Night Critical Abdoul Bikienga Johann Schiller once said “It is not flesh and blood, but the heart which makes us fathers and sons”. But what happens when the night darkens our hearts our hearts? The Holocaust memoir Night does a phenomenal job of portraying possibly the most horrifying outcomes in such a situation. Through subtle and effective language, Wiesel is able to put into words the fearsome experiences he and his father went through in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. In his holocaust memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel utilizes imagery to show the effect that self-preservation can have on father son relationships.