Elie Wiesel's Night

When Elie was separated from his mother and sister at the beginning of the book Elie was only left with his father. When things got tough, they continued pushing for each other. They made sacrifices for each other and always made sure the other was ok. Elie had lost the rest of his family so his father meant the world to him. At the end of the book this is also taken away from him.

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.

To Elie, his father is his only source of moral support, motivation, and trust. Until the very end, the kinship between Elie and his father allows them to stand strong together in all circumstances. As a result, familial ties are essential for Elie

The main character Elie, wants to believe in God but when looking at all the actions that are happening around him, he loses faith and he is questioning himself about “the Almighty God”. The change is apparent when Elie was mad at God and questioning his majesty,and powerfulness. At the beginning he was very faithful, praying and studying at the opposite will of his father. Then in the middle of the book he started to question himself about God. At the end of the book he ended up not believing in anything and has nothing left to live for.

In the three stories, Maus, Night, and Unbroken, men have to go through dehumanizing conditions and experiences. In the story Maus by Art Spiegelman a man’s father had survived the holocaust, he went through many stressful situations including those with who to pick to leave behind in the family. In the story Night by Elie Wiesel a young boy Elie and his father also struggle to survive during the holocaust, they have to make decisions helping eachother and they both make it so far due to only having each other. In the excerpt from the story Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand two young men are captured and being torchured emensly, they have to cough just to let each other know they are still alive.

It’s Rosh Hashanah (the start of the Jewish year) and Elie is losing faith in because of the horrors he has seen at these concentration camps, he doesn’t know whether or not to wish his father a happy new year. “I ran to look for my father… I went up to him, took his hand and kissed it. I felt a tear on my hand… I said nothing. Nor did he.

His father was the only thing that kept him going - had he not been with him, Elie would have given in by now - he had already lost his faith. His father’s life was the only thing that kept Elie strong. His love for his father prevented him from becoming self-obsessed. This point in the novel, when Elie and his father work together, was the highest point of their relationship. They worked together - always - to solve

It does not reflect a healthy connection between a father and a son. Elie even thinks that his father cares for other people more than his family. Their bond deepens after the two, along with many others, are sent to a concentration camp. The loss of the rest of their family members, leaving them just with each other, is what caused the shift. As they come to rely on one another for their own survival during the horrifying days and terrible treatment they endure at camp Auschwitz, they become closer.

Wiesel and his family were forced to abandon their home and were eventually sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The horrors of the concentration camp are described in graphic detail as Wiesel recounts the beatings, starvation, and disease that he and

When it looked like he wouldn’t survive any longer Rabbi Eliahu’s son abandoned him. Elie realizes that this is a situation he and his father may be put in as well. Elie’s father was getting weaker and this separation freed him of a burden that eventually was going to decrease his chances of surviving. When Elie’s father died because he was sick, Elie was not affected by this, which shows a somewhat similar connection between Elie and Rabbi Eliahu’s son. He was relieved that he didn’t have to worry about his father anymore.

In the coming weeks, the true weight of the situation landed on Elie. In Night, Elie goes as far as to not describe his life during the period after his father's death as, “It no longer mattered anymore” (Wiesel 113). He goes on to say, “Since my father’s death, nothing mattered during that period” (Wiesel 113). While Elie’s father was a responsibility Elie did not wish to bear during the camps, he soon came to find out that without him his life lacked meaning. Without his father, he had lost the one thing he had left that brought him purpose.

During this time Elies's father, Shlomo, could be perceived as a physical manifestation of Elies' Survival Motivation and Emotional Resilience. Elie defines most of his will to live and continue coming from his father presence which fuels his determination to protect and support the final remaining connection he has to the rest of his family which is evident through his constant selfless acts to preserve and save his father. The shared hopes, fears and dreams now made Elie think of him and his father as one, for Elie to survive means his father needs to survive these experiences cause people to think of everyone as a whole and not a singular

Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night tells the personal tale of his account of the inhumanity and brutality the Nazis showed during the Holocaust. Night depicts the story of a young Jew from the small town of Sighet named Eliezer. Wiesel and his family are deported to the concentration camp known as Auschwitz. He must learn to survive with his father’s help until he finds liberation from the horror of the camp. This memoir, however, hides a greater lesson that can only be revealed through careful analyzation.

Eliezer’s best traits come out and allow him to survive his terrible ordeal, which are adaptability, determination, patience, and perseverance. Elie uses his father as his reason to persevere and keep on going through. For example, whenever Eliezer’s father dies, Eliezer loses all function and does not even want to recount how empty and lonely he felt. On page 32, Eliezer describes how great his fear of

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