Night Father's Relationship Analysis

However as time progresses, Elie’s father’s health rapidly deteriorates due to dysentery and the harsh conditions. Though Elie struggles, trying hard to keep his

You see”I cried. (Wiesel, 1258) that was elie trying to wake up his father s he is not thrown of the cart in the cold snow even though Elie must be so tired and took all his energy to do so. The way they felt about their father during their imprisonment. I woke from my apathy just at the moment when two men came up to my father”(1258) Elie didn’t hesitate at all to save his father's life from the Nazi soldiers.

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.

In this quote Elie is thinking to himself. He thought this when he was outside with the others because all of the Jewish people were forced to leave their homes. Elie was thinking this because earlier in the book he said that his dad barely shows any emotion and that they are not that close to each other so it was weird to him. Elie’s dad is like my dad because the only time that I saw my dad cry was when his brother died, but that was the only time I saw him cry and up to this day I had never seen him cry.

Elie’s determination to stay with his father was constantly present. He showed this determination all the time. Elie reflects on a time in the camp, “My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone” (30).

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.

For this reason the Elie wouldn’t have known about the extreme horror that was lying ahead for his entire family. This choice positively impacted the author’s life by not being separated from his father. “Naturally, we refused to be separated” (20). Hypothetically, if Elie left with his sisters, his father would have no motivation to survive by not knowing if his family is

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!

What would he do without me?” (92). This proves how family made it possible for Elie to survive because he would have lost the will to survive if it weren’t for his father being there. This was one of the many instances where family helped Elie to survive.

Empathy; the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. An admirable trait, it often coincides with one's resilience. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, he recounts his experiences as a young man during the Holocaust. It is a journey of suffering and survival, where the true devastation of the Holocaust is brought to light. Elies great empathy for his father shaped his resilience which allowed him to survive.

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

While their dads were telling them not to. During that Elie wanted to help his father to march and not be mocked at or beaten up. The other inmates started to laugh and Elie distinctly remembered “My father had never served in the military and could not march in step. That presented Franek with the opportunity to torment him and, on a daily basis, to thrash him savagely….But my father did not make sufficient progress, and the blows continued to rain on him”(55).The germans was beating up Elie’s dad.

Shockingly, Elie and his family were ones to be put into a camp called Auschwitz. When they arrived at the camp, Elie and his dad got isolated from his mom and younger sibling, and from that point on he and his dad did not lose each other. In the book Night, Elie had a great deal of confidence, however as you see all through the story it gets harder for him to keep the confidence he

I yelled. He’s not dead! Not yet!...” Elie said as the desperation crept throughout his voice as he hoped his father would open his eyes and continuing to give him the strength to live. The theme family is carried out through the story Night.

When Elie was taking a rest from the evacuation march from the camp in an old shed in the snow, an old man came in desperately looking for his son, Rabbi Eliahu. This father had been very close with his son and they had stayed that way for three years in the concentration camp, however, on the march, the two got separated because the father could no longer keep up. At first, Elie didn’t remember the little boy running beside him and was no help to the father trying to find his son at the time, but when he left, Elie remembered the boy seeing his father slow down and had actually sped up to allow the distance between them become greater. The author wrote, "He had felt his father growing weaker and, believing that the end was near, had thought by this separation to free himself of a burden that could diminish his own chance for survival." (Wiesel 91).