Night By Chris Bachchan Quotes

In the book Night I believe that family is the highest priority to Elie. His father is very important to him and a great motivator to stay alive and keep trying. The book Night is set in a small town in WW2 the main characters are Elie and his father. They are both jews and are soon taken to a concentration camp and the book is about them surviving the camps they go to. Elie’s father is a big motivator for Elie, but in the end of the book Elie’s father dies.

Elie had to focus on himself if he wanted to survive though, his feet were aching but he adapted to the pain and kept running. Elie just wanted to fall to the ground and be done with everything, die. He wanted all the pain and suffering to be over with. But his fathers presence was the only that that stopped him. Elie was his fathers motivation and fuel to keep staying alive.

In most cases, people will do what they have to do in order to survive. The book Night is about a young boy named Elie, and how he survived in multiple concentration camps. By reading Night we can see that family is the key to survival, which is important because those who don’t have family can often die. The main reason that Elie survives is because he had his father there with him for almost the whole time.

In the book Night, we the readers witness the hardships and struggles in Elie’s life during the traumatic holocaust. The events that take place in this story are unbearable and are thought to be demented in modern times. In the beginning Elie is shown as a normal teenage Jewish boy, but the events are so drastic that we the readers forget how he was like in the beginning. Changes were made to Elie during the book, whether they were minor or major. The changes generated from himself, the journey, and other people.

At one point, Elie uttered, "Oh God, Master of the Universe, in your infinite compassion, have mercy on us. . .”(p.20). Grounded by the idea of faith in his God, that He is everywhere, and that His divinity touches every aspect of his life. However, he was forced to witness the brutal reality of evil and suffering that the Germans were doing to the Jews. When he began to question his faith in his loving God, “Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes”(p.34).

I’ll watch over you and you’ll watch over me. We don’t let each other fall asleep. We’ll look after each other”(Wiesel 89.) However, as time progresses, Elie’s protectiveness over his dad fades and he starts caring about himself more. He realizes that in order to come out of this alive, one can’t be sensitive and they need to care for themselves.

When they were being evacuated on the death march Elie was quickly losing strength and “the idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate” him (86). He was put in a hard spot where if he stopped for a break he would be trampled or shot, but to continue to run meant more pain, especially for his throbbing foot, and he was already so exhausted. In this case, it was Elie’s father who helped him survive. Elie knew he was his father’s sole support and that if he died his father probably would too. Since his father was there, Elie gave himself the mindset that he had to push on, but if his father had not been there beside him he could have easily chosen the other option and let himself fall to the ground.

“I no longer accepted God’s silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him.” (Page 69) This means that Elie is irritated of God not doing anything

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.

No response. I would have screamed if I could have. He was not moving"(98).This is an example of how Elie cared about his father and he is feared that he would lose him. Over

Elie didn’t care if they were going to the crematorium or if they were going to go to work, all he cared about was if he was near his father, he was the only thing he had left. If Elie’s father was sent to the crematorium he would have ran after him even knowing that they were going to die. He kept going because he cared for his father and didn’t want him to

Shresht Rawat Mrs. Susa MYP Honors English 10 - Block 3 19 March 2023 How Elie’s relationship with his Father Changes Throughout Night The holocaust was a brutal genocide where millions of Jews suffered which is perfectly depicted in Eliezer Wiesel’s “Night”. In Wiesel’s book, many connections are shown between friends and family.

He was running next to me, out of breath, out of strength, desperate. I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his sole support” (Wiesel 86-87). Elie told himself that he had to live because his only family was now his father. Because of this, Elie realized that if he died then his father would be alone and he would lose all of his motivation to keep on going without Elie.

(p.76-77) Elie still makes an effort to hold on to his father as a sign of dedication and love. Despite everything they have gone through, losing his father is still his greatest fear. In an effort to avoid losing the last survivor of his family and the only thing keeping his own will to live, he fights to keep his father alive as he slowly dies. Another example of his father's impact, is when Elie suffers the loss of his father and undergoes a series of emotional damage. “it no longer mattered.

He was alongside him throughout the entire venture to keep him company. Elie claims “My father’s presence was the only thing that stopped me [from killing himself]” (86). His will to live derived from his father. He felt the need to stay around to look after his father. At some points, he cared more about his father’s safety than his own.