In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie was more loyal to his father than himself. First, Elie continuously kept his father’s spirits up. To illustrate, Elie’s father thought he would die and Elie said this: “We’ll see each other tonight, after work” (Wiesel 75). This detail suggests Elie is trying to cheer up his father which shows his reliability. Second, Elie always tried his best to stay alongside his father. For example, when Elie was assigned to a separate corner for work, he begged the guard “please, sir… I’d like to be near my father” (Wiesel 50). This quote describes Elie’s want and need to be close to his father. Lastly, Elie helped his father every time he was tired, injured or sick. Elie’s father had a fever and wanted one thing and Elie
Nearing the end of their arduous journey, the mutual dependence was slowly dwindling as Elie began to have to take care of his father. One example of this is when his father was sick and in the camp infirmary and had not been fed so Elie “gave him what was left of [his] soup. But [his] heart was heavy. [He] was aware that [he] was doing it grudgingly,’ (107). Being that he did this grudgingly, the reader is shown that, to Elie, taking care of his father had become more of an unwanted task rather than a kind action coming from his heart. Elie begins to see his own father as a thorn in his side much rather than his source support. His father is no longer there as a person who will provide motivation to survive but now instead a burden. In another instance, still in the infirmary, when his father pleaded for water and the officer came to silence him, Elie states, “ I didn’t move.
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
“I no longer thought of my father, or mother. But only about soup, an extra ration of soup”(Wiesel 113). Elie’s block leader comes to check on Elie and his dad but the block leader said there is nothing to do he will die soon and he told Elie if he were him he wouldn't help his dad anymore he would just take his serving of food so he can have two and have a better chance at surviving. “Let me give you good advice : stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father . You cannot help him anymore”(Wiesel
“He didn’t teach me how to live, he lived, and let me watch him do it” by. Night tells you how watching a father figure live his life could help you in yours. In Night Elie Wiesel shows how strong father son relationships can be in life and death situations. For instance when he knew he was dying he gave his son a spoon and a knife. Also, when his father died nothing mattered to Elie anymore.
Most people believe that family helps build you up and make you stronger, even through tragic events; this isn’t always true. In Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, he explains the hardships he and his father, Shlomo, experienced while in concentration camps. In the book, Elie and his dad went through many tough situations together: starvation, beatings, and health issues. As more and more horrific events occurred, Eliezer's relationship with his father began to fade. As Shlomo grew weaker physically, Eliezer grew weaker emotionally; the intense trauma numbed his heart. Because of these many difficulties, Eliezer was shaped into an independent young man who no longer relied on his family but on his own strength for survival.
One of the major themes that can be found in Night, by Elie Wiesel, is one of father/son relationships. To quote a father from the book, Stein, “The only thing that keeps me alive is knowing that Reizel and the little ones are still alive.” Not all father/son relationships are as good however. Another part of the book reads, “I once saw. . . a boy of thirteen, beat his father for not making his bed properly. As the old man quietly wept, the boy was yelling, ‘If you don’t stop crying instantly, I will no longer bring you bread. Understood?’” In presenting examples like these, Wiesel communicates a message of the importance of good father/son relationships to his readers. This paper will examine father/son relationships throughout the book,
“My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental” (Wiesel,Elie,pg4). It tell us what kind father he had. “There were four of us children, Hilda, the eldest; then Bea; I was the third and only son; Tzipora was the youngest” (Wiesel,Elie,pg4). It tell us about his family. “Night explores the ways traditional father-son relationships break down under impossibly difficult conditions”. It talk about father and son. “I was twelve I believed profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the Synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple. It talk about father
Lastly, the theme is shown when the bond between father and son is at its strongest. In Night by Elie Wiesel, when Elie and his father are fighting for their lives in the cold, Wiesel writes, “Don’t worry, son. Go to sleep. I’ll watch over you. You first, Father.
One important part of Night is the change in relationship Elie had with his father through out camp. In the book Night, Elie often feels worried that him and his father are going to be separated from each other but he also feels some kind of guilt. On page 32, Elie says, " I first wanted to see where they would send my father. Were he to have gone to the right, I would have run after him." This shows how Elie feels about
John says at Moor House for another week and the time he is there is very torturing and awkward for Jane. Again, he asks Jane to marry him, and she refuses. Jane later tells Diana of John’s plan, and Diana does not like the idea, though she says John is a good man. Jane replies that she knows that he is a good man, but he often forgets the feelings of others.
By the climax of Night, Elie and Shlomo Wiesel’s connection has gradually evolved into the epitome of father-son relationships; however, not long before the birth of this resilient bond, the father and son scarcely understood each other. Early on in the novel, Elie portrays his father as a “cultured man, rather unsentimental. He [also] rarely display[s]
In night there were many times when Elie and his dad wanted to give up but they did not because they had each other. They used family to get through the terrible things that were happening to not only them but millions like them. Before the concentration
While his father is dying in his bed, Elie decides to give him his own ration of bread of soup. However, after doing this a man in the camp says, “I’ll give you a sound piece of advice--don’t give your ration of bread and soup to your old father. There’s nothing you can do for him. And you’re killing yourself.” (pg. 115) . At this point in the book Elie himself realised that by helping and staying with his family made him go through much more hassle than what was necessary. After his dad passed Elie thought, “I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!” (pg. 116). He gathered that his father was keeping him from making the most of plight
Many people are controlled by fear and are made to do things that aren’t right. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Jews are being controlled by fear and are stripped of their rights. In the present world mainly in Syria, ISIS, the radical group that fights for terror, is doing the same to frighten the world and kill those who don’t obey them just as the Germans did to the Jews. Terrorism around the world is controlling people by fear. For instance, let’s talk about how in both situations the victims decide to realize their fate because of how bad things have gotten.
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.