Theme Of Adversity In Night

Elie's father being alive was something like a crutch for him. Elie's foot had started to swell because it was cold out, and there was discussion about the Red Army approaching, and how the Nazi's would kill off all the injured. Elie, however, had a different mindset,"As for me, I was thinking not about death but about not wanting to be separated from my father." (Wiesel 82). Elie's desire to be with his father and care for him was great, but he would suppress his own pain for his father, which in turn, could've killed Elie.

He couldn't dare to leave his father’s side as he says “My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone”(Wiesel 30). Since the beginning of the suffering they stuck together. They both cared for one another as his father said to Elie "Don't worry, son.

At the end Elie feels after the death of his father he has nothing to live for. The meaning of

Night: Man’s Strength All throughout Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he speaks of the wretched horrors of his experience in the shoes of a Jewish prisoner during the Nazi occupation in World War II. For every horror he speaks of, he depicts the madness, savagery, and depression of the atrocities he had been exposed to. These very depictions are the foundation of the idea that man’s strongest instinct is not the need to help, to raise a family, to fight, but to sacrifice morality for the right to survive. To begin to examine this factor of behavior, we must begin with the initial crimes committed when he arrived at the camp.

Eleven million lives were massacred in one of the world’s darkest moments attempting to create a perfect race. In 1944 Germany began to lose in World War II, Adolf Hitler's final solution aimed the blame towards Europe's Jewish population, gypsies, and homosexuals. Together Hitler and the Nazi regime progressively deprived the Jews, gypsies and homosexuals of their rights. Many people were brought to labor camps by train. The conditions in the camps were inhumane.

Even though he eventually stopped caring for him as much, his dad is what kept him going, so keeping his dad alive is what was keeping him alive. In other words, Elie cared for his father as much as he cared for himself, so that means if he dies, his dad dies. When Elie’s father finally passes, he’s sad that he can’t cry because there’s no tears left to cry. “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep”(Wiesel 112). Despite not crying when his dad died and even feeling a little relieved, knowing that there was still a part of his old life that wasn’t torn away from him was a big motivation to hold

With Elie and his father’s relationship being as strong as it was Elie’s life was not only saved, but his father’s motivation to keep his life, grew

Alan Paton once stated, “There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.” In the book Night by Elie Wiesel there is so much inhumanity. Throughout reading this novel I thought to myself, how could a human do something so horrific to another human. In the novel Tuesday’s with Morrie by Mitch Albom there is inhumanity, but it is a different kind. Throughout these two novels, there is so much inhumanity, but both Morrie and Elie keep pushing they keep fighting.

Elie spent days trying to do this so he and his father could stay alive. If Elie’s father died Elie would probably want to die too because his only purpose in living is his family. However, they managed to acquire through the death run tired, but

“ Here and there, the police were lashing out with their clubs: “Faster!” I had just begun and I already felt so weak” (Wiesel 19). This was in the beginning of Night. It is crazy what goes on in both books. They are books that have much suffering in them.

However Elie was lucky enough to be paired with his father for the majority of his time in the Holocaust. There are many occasions where Elie had said that if his father wasn’t there, he would’ve just ended it all. In one scene described by Elie, him and others running during an evacuation to a nearby camp, he could’ve easily fallen out of line and been shot quickly, only there was one thing stopping him, “My father’s presence was the only thing that stopped me,” (Wiesel 86). His father provided the only bit of comfort throughout his time, and in a place such as Auschwitz comfort was an extremely scarce commodity. Without his father, Elie would’ve fallen victim to the horrendous torture and would’ve most likely died, whether that be by the hands of another or by his own.

Within the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the author writes about his experience through the holocaust. The entire novel Elie’s goal was consistent, he wanted to stay untied with his father at all times. In the beginning of the novel Elie and his father were separated from his mother and sister. The author came to the realization that he would never meet his mother or sister again, so he decided that he would always be by his fathers side.

He begins to believe that his father has become more of a burden than a comfort of home. As Elie father grows weaker in the internment camp Elie begins to question whether he should save food for himself or share with his father, whether he should stay and help his father while they are running or leave him behind as many of the other sons did. Form the reading you can see that these questions caused Elie to face quite a lot of inter turmoil. This is first revealed to the reader through his father’s beatings. On multiple occasions Wiesel, Elie’s father, received horrible beatings of then for things that Elie had done or failed to do (for example the Elie refusing to give the Forman his gold crown) even so Elie failed to do anything to help/protect his father, this seemed to be as much as a surprise to Elie as it was to the reader, as he states “my father had been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked.

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.

Wesson 1 Allyson Wesson Mr. Wozny English 10C-1 12 March 2015 The Effects of Suffering in Night World War II started on September 1st, 1939 and ended on September 2nd, 1945. Many Jews were persecuted and blamed for many things during this time period. Jews later on in the war were taken from their homes and put into concentration camps, this was known as the Holocaust. The Holocaust was filled with suffering.