How Does Elie Wiesel Present Ellie's Relationship In Night

“Eliezer experiments with the possibility of becoming an adult while his father gradually slips away, all the while giving his son what space he can to let him try out a new role” (Sanderson). “Eliezer's march toward a pseudo-adulthood continues, while his father seems to be regressing. (Sanderson). Elie’s father starts to get sick and is becoming an annoyance for Elie. When Chlomo sinks into a snow bank during a forced march to the next death camp, too sick to move, Eliezer begs his father to stand up and continue moving” (Sanderson). Elie also felt no remorse for his father as he was being beaten by a S.S guard. “At first my father simply doubled the blows…I felt angry at that moment… Why couldn’t he avoid Idek’s wrath?” (Wiesel 54). Even when his father was being beaten for not marching right he still became annoyed with is dad. He also gave up his soup with a heavy heart. “I gave him what’s left of my soup.” I was aware that I did it groggily” (Wiesel

In a couple of instances Elie is glad to have his dad and to not have ended up alone. When they first arrived to the camp “men and women were separated Elie stays connected to his dad as best as he could so he didn’t lose him”. In another instance Elie was glad to have his father with him as they struggled through tough times together. As Elie and his

The one person in Elie’s life that means everything to him is his father. During his time in the concentration camps, Elie’s bond with his father

Elie cares about his father and does not him to just give up and die, he forces him to get up and take a shower. Later when his father was taken to the infirmary the nazi’s did not give him any food. Elie gives his father half of his soup instead of giving him all of it. This shows that Elie is more concerned with himself than his father. Like the son that killed his father on the way to Buchenwald.

When Ellie goes to the camps along with the other people around him, a lot of anger has been risen from the crowd and yet Ellie was still calm from his troubles. He states, “The clubs and whips were crackling around me. My feet were running on their own. I tried to protect myself from the blows by hiding behind others. It was spring. The sun was shining.” (Pg. 40) That quote shows that all of the evil that was around him did not yet took him over when he also knew that his

In the tragic, real life story about Ellie Wiesel and his book Night, we learn how people can change and act differently when certain events happen. We witness formerly moral men committing deeds that seem so vicious and cruel. Hitler and his followers were the epitome of cruel men. People still today still don’t know how anyone could act this way. Some people don’t even believe they were human. The men hanging a child, beating up Ellie’s dad, and the Rabbi’s son ditching his dad are only three reasons that showcase crusely and how moral men can change.

One of the conflicts that he has with his dad is in the beginning of the book when he feels that his dad doesn’t pay enough attention to him. “My father was occupied with his business and the doings in the community” (Wiesel 18). He feels that his father cares more about other people in the community more than he care about him. This made Elie feel melancholy and isolated.

In the beginning of the book, before experiencing life threatening difficulties, Elie was much more determined to stay with his family (in order to survive). Eliezer thought that his father was what kept him going and gave him strength, he was certain that the right thing to do was to stay with his dad. In chapter 3 Wiesel states, “My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone” (30). In these sentences, Elie explains that he and his father needed to stay together. This quote also shows what Elie’s emotions were; he was scared to suffer through the concentration camp alone. Elie also shows his need for family when he says, “Franek, the foreman, assigned me to a corner... ‘Please, sir ... I’d like to be near

Elies father was absent in his families lives and he didn't support Elie in his beliefs Elies describes his father stating that “ He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with his own kin.” ( Wiesel 4). His father owned a shop so he wasn't really apart of Elies life he could of tried to have been but he cared more about the town to have time for his son. Their relationship was very distant as Elie described his father as “more involved with the welfare of others than with his on kin.” (4).

At the beginning of the novel , Elie's relationship with his father is fairly close. Slowly but surely, through out the novel their relationship changes. The reason for their father-son relationship tobe fairly close and not extremely close as it should be is because his father, Chlomo’s commitments to the community, affects his life at home.

Elie is watching over his father and fights for him to keep going until he no longer can. It’s in the emotional moments that they come together. “We had never understood one another so clearly.” (Weisel 65) They are seeking to understand each other and through having this emotional moment together where they are both vulnerable, they become closer than they had ever been. Without them fighting to keep one another alive they had multiple opportunities where they could’ve fallen into death. “We’ll look after each other.”(Wiesel 85) They say this while they sit in the cold both needing sleep but also knowing that falling into a deep sleep means death. When his father becomes ill Eliezer fights and begs for his father to not let go. “After my father’s death, nothing could touch me anymore.” After using so much of his energy and putting it into his father, fighting for him to stay alive he feels like nothing matters because the only thing that remained through everything was his

When Elie and his father first entered the camps, his father was struck and Elie did nothing to help his father: "What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails in this criminal's flesh" (39). This shows that, although Elie did not share a close relationship with his father, he still feels that he should stand up for his fahter for the fact that they are father and son. Elie is very violent in that he would have "dug his nails in the criminals' flesh." Evidently, Elie is furious towards the offender. Unfortunately, Elie does not do anything when his father is struck because he does not want to draw attention to himself. Nevertheless, the bond between Elie and his father does strengthen: "And what if he were dead, as well? He was not moving. Suddenly the evidence overwhelmed me: there is no longer any reason to live, any reason to fight" (98-99). Elie reveals that he truly depends on his father for survival. Because he believes his father is no longer alive, he loses all hope for surviavl. Although Elie expresses anger towards his father from time to time because he is being a burden, he still feels that his survival is meaningless without his father. The strong bond that the two developed once they entered the concentration camps proves that nothing can come between them so easily.

They did this because they felt that their dads were a burden on their shoulders as if they were slowing them down and the kids could survive without them. Elie once had these feelings about his dad when in the book he said that he thought his dad was dead, but Elie instantly regretted these thoughts because he had to protect his dad. Elie thought that if his dad died, he would no longer have a reason to live. Elie felt very strong about his dad because he was always protecting him and not letting him die. In one situation he would not let the other Jews throw him out of the cattle cart when they were on their way to Gleiwitz. Elie also tried his best to stay by his father’s side no matter what, even if it meant almost getting shot; He did this because Elie’s dad also protected him during the marches by not letting him fall asleep in the snow, this was so he would not

In the story Elie was whipped savagely by the Kapo, and all he can think about is his father. Later in the new camp Elie's father is giving up on life and Elie tries to make him move. There is an allied air raid and for the first time Elie leave his father.(wiesel pg. 106) This proves he finally gave up on his father. He started off in the story really caring about his father sacrificing his own safety just so he could stay close to him. After his father was struck ill in the new camp he gave up on him. In the story Elie wanted to keep his shoes even if that meant he would get tormented even more. This show he has a very strong will and loves things that give him a glimmer of hope. At the end when his father died he stopped caring and lost all hope in surviving the

In his book, Night, Elie Wiesel spoke about his experience as a young Jewish boy in the Nazi concentration camps. During this turbulent time period, Elie described the horrifying events that he lived through and how that affected the relationship with his father. Throughout the book, Elie and his father’s relationship faced many obstacles. In the beginning, Elie and his father have much respect for one another and at the end of the book, that relationship became a burden and a feeling of guilt. Their relationship took a great toll on them throughout their journey in the concentration camps.