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Obstacles In Elie Wiesel's Night

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Another character from the book Night is Elie's Father, His father went through many obstacles from trying to keep his son safe to trying to keep himself safe. His father went through so much obstacles because he didn't want to see his family die in the camps they were stationed in. When Elie's family go to the camp they were to separate from men to women, and elie chose to stay with his father and he said “What a shame that you did not go with your mother…”(Wiesel 55-57). This quote explains how ellie's father wanted him to go with his mother because he did not want to see his only son hurt or getting killed. This is an obstacle faced by ellie's father because no man wants to see his son die or be in pain. Another obstacle that Ellie’s father …show more content…

His father's brother was the one who killed him. Hamlet went through alot in this story he went through Pain, love and death, lots of death. Some events that happened throughout the book left Hamlet hopeless and some events changed the way Hamlet thought and act. In the book hamlet said “ A little month..She followed my poor father's body” ( Shakespeare I, 2,151-158). Hamlet was deeply depressed about his father's death, in this quote he couldn't even speak in complete sentences so you can see how much this affected Hamlet and how it took a toll on him. Hamlet overcome this obstacle by taking revenge for his father and killing his uncle for the murder of his father. Hamlet was also going through other obstacles because right after his father death his mother married his father's killer which is his uncle. Hamlet was bummed about this and really disappointed in his mother's actions. In the Play Hamlet said “she married. O,most wicked speed” (1.2.161 Shakespeare) Hamlet couldn't handle how fast his mother remarried and he definitely couldn't handle that she married his uncle, yet alone his father's killer. He was bummed about throughout the play and kept on telling her how he felt but she paid him no mind, which is the reason he had more reason to kill his

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