How Does Wiesel Present Eliezer'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

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

Although the two of them have been looking out for each other their whole time in Auschwitz, Eliezer was still the dependent. “Don’t let yourself be overcome by sleep, Eliezer. It’s dangerous to fall asleep in snow.” By Eliezer’s father telling him this, it shows that even when his own life is own the line, he is looking out for his own son’s interest. Then Eliezer says to his father later on in the night, “Come, Father. It’s better there. You’ll be able to lie down. We’ll take turns. I’ll watch over you and you’ll watch over me. We won’t let each other fall asleep. We’ll look after each other.” This simple statement transfers the role of depender to Eliezer, showing he is now taking charge of making sure him and his father stay together and

When you start forgetting all of the people that were so significant before and don’t remember why it is you loved someone or something so much then you’re already an unrecognizable man. Your morals, thoughts, and passion all fades away until you’re left with a feeling of neither caring nor not caring. When he couldn’t find his father in the camp, closer to the end of the novel, he mused, “But at the same moment this thought came to mind: ‘Don’t let me find him! If only I could get rid of this dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my own survival, and only worry about myself.’ Immediately I felt ashamed of myself, ashamed forever.” Despite this thought of his only lasted for a split second before he felt shame, it still speaks a lot. Surely he didn’t actually wish for his father to die but it implies all of the baggage and antagony he felt that blinded him and made him forget who he was and who he loved before the world he knew collapsed.

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).

.As Elie’s father continues to show that now he is dependent on Elie, Elie slowly but surely grows into a parent. Elie believed he needed to be by his father because his father needed him. At one point in the novel, on page 108 Elie makes a sacrifice for the little bit of food that they barely get for his father, “For a ration of bread I was able to exchange cots to be next to my father”. Elie

Strong bonds built upon trust and dependability can last a lifetime, especially through strenuous moments when the integrity of a bond is the only thing that can be counted on to get through those situations. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he writes about his life spent in the concentration camps, while explaining the experiences and struggles that he went through. However, not everything during that period was completely unbearable for Wiesel. When Wiesel arrived at the first camp, Birkenau, the fear instilled in him and the loneliness he would have felt forced him to form a stronger attachment to his father. That dependence towards his father gave Wiesel a reason to keep on living. In turn, his father was able to support Wiesel and make the experiences in the camps a bit more manageable.

Eliezer and his father were on the same team when they were in the concentration camp, constantly looking out for each other. Eliezer cared deeply for his father and strived to sustain his life. However, after a certain point during his stay in the camp, he began to feel burdened by his father. Eliezer fed him and nurtured him, yet he realized he had been doing so because it was his duty as a son; he had not been doing it all out of love for his father. In one instance, Eliezer’s father was suffering from dysentery and hungry, deprived of food because he “would die soon, and that it would be a waste of food” (107), according to camp officials. So, Eliezer gave his soup to his father. But his thoughts were not as benign: “I gave him what was

Eliezer goes through much struggle with himself as the book progresses. He contemplates whether or not he should keep going as “the idea of dying...began to fascinate [him]” (86). The fact that effacing himself from the world seems pleasant shows how low Eliezer has sunk, and he struggles to have faith in himself. Especially when, for a split second, he wanted his father to perish, but then “felt ashamed, ashamed of [himself] forever” (106). He begins losing hope in one of his own family members. Lastly Eliezer fights not to fall asleep in the frigid snow. He knows that falling asleep there would mean death, but half of him wants this. He wants it

In 2006, Elie Wiesel published the memoir “Night,” which focuses on his terrifying experiences in the Nazi extermination camps during the World War ll. Elie, a sixteen-year-old Jewish boy, is projected as a dynamic character who experiences overpowering conflicts in his emotions. One of his greatest struggles is the sense helplessness that he feels when all the beliefs and rights, of an entire nation, are reduced to silence. Elie and the Jews are subjected daily to uninterrupted torture and dehumanization. During the time spent in the concentration camp, Elie is engulfed by an uninterrupted roar of pain and despair. Throughout this horrific experience, Elie’s soul perishes as he faces constant psychological abuse, inhuman living conditions, and brutal negation of his humanity.

The concentration camps of the Holocaust were home to countless injustices to humanity. Not only were the prisoners starved to the brink of death, but they were also treated as animals, disciplined through beatings nearly every day. Most would not expect an ill-prepared young boy to survive such conditions. Nevertheless, in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Wiesel defies the odds and survives to tell the story. Wiesel considers this survival merely luck, yet luck was not the only factor to come into play: his father had an even greater impact. Prior to their arrival at Auschwitz, Wiesel lacked a close relationship with his rather detached father; however, when faced by grueling concentration camp life, the bond between Wiesel and his father ultimately enables Wiesel’s survival.

More than once Eliezer experiences the rupture of the bond a family shares between both the

“ It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory” (Weisel viii). In the book Night (1958), the author Elie Wiesel experiences the terrible life of a prisoner in concentration camps. Throughout the war, Elie starts to question God’s reason and is trying to survive until the battle is over. The Jews are treated with inhuman acts by the leaders of the concentration camps, but Eliezer continues to persevere through his strenuous time as a prisoner.

Throughout Night, the bond that Eliezer has with his father Chlomo passes through a rocky course, but eventually becomes stronger due to the isolation and ultimately the death of Chlomo. This rocky course has events that that go from being inseparable in Birkenau, to feeling as though he is a burden. In between, there are times where Elizer’s relationship is clearly falling apart and then being fixed. The camps greatly influence the father-son relationship that Elie and Chlomo have, sometimes for the better, and sometimes for worse. Originally in 1941 when the Wiesel family was living in Sighet, Eliezer took Chlomo for granted, as any child would. Little did he know that their relationship would permanently change forever.

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.