Why Did His Father Play An Instrument?

Eliezer and his father were separated from his mother and younger sister when they arrived at Birkenau. Eliezer’s view began to change and he started to see his father as someone who he admired and did not want to lose. The horrors of the camps made them value their relationship. Their goal was then to remain alive and to remain together. As his father’s health began to worsen, Eliezer did everything to try to keep him alive.

Often times when a person is experiencing a hardship such as family members dying and disease, the people that are most prominent in their life help them make it through the tough times by developing a deeper relationship with them and providing them with a way to cope with the struggle. Stephen and Ellie’s relationships with their fathers grew as a result of war and trying to survive the Holocaust, as well as Sachi’s relationship with the people of Yamaguchi which grew as a result of their acceptance of her because they were also going through similar struggles. This can also be connected to Ellie’s relationship with Yossi and Tibi, as they become friends as a way to remain hopeful and survive until the day that they might be liberated. In

On this page he was actually showing a little bit of remorse for his father,but later on in the book that remorse starts to diminish.On page 54 the results of his lack of sympathy really starts to come through the book states,”Idek was on edge, he had trouble restraining himself. Suddenly, he exploded.The victim my father...he began beating him with an iron bar...I had watched it all happen without moving...I felt anger at that moment, it was not directed at the Kapo but at my father.Why couldn’t he have avoided Idek’s wrath? That's what life in a concentration camp made of me”(pg 54). In the exscript from the book Ellie is saying how he's changed so much since he got to camp a few weeks ago he would've tried to attack the man who attacked his father but now he's blaming his father for what happened to

In Night by Elie Wiesel he continued looking for his dad since he didn’t want to give up on him and stilled cared. For example “If only I didn’t find him I would be relieved of this responsibility”(Wiesel 106). If Elie stopped looking he wouldn’t have to worry about his dad's survival and just focus on his. After he said this he felt ashamed for even having this thought. “Father! I've been looking for you for so long”(Wiesel 106). He felt relieved and happy that his father was found and didn’t die yet. Now Ellie has to worry and try to keep his dad alive. This is why Elie continues looking for his dad.

Another obstacle that Ellie’s father

In Elie Wiesel’s book Night, there are several themes throughout the entire book. Some of these themes are emotional death, struggle to maintain faith, keeping dignity despite inhumane conditions, and self-preservation vs. family commitment. I feel like self-preservation vs. family commitment is shown the most throughout the book. Many charters throughout the book showed family commitment over self-preservation. The first example is when they first got to Auschwitz during the first selection.

In this piece of evidence eliezer was watching a young boy being hung, Eliezer saw many people hung in his lifetime, but this was one of the worst because… The young boy was still hanging alive because he was to

Elie’s father was his rock during the time that he was in the camp, “Since my father's death, nothing mattered to me anymore.” (Wiesel 113). Elie was extremely concerned about his father during their whole journey which caused him to work hard to keep them both alive. When Elie’s father died, it was the thing that broke him, yet led him to go on. After his father’s death, Elie had nothing and no one left to look after. Although this was devastating to him, it created an easier life for him and led him back to his

Evidence from Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs shows how people need to have certain things to have the ability to do other things. The basis of someone's life begins at Physiological needs, everyone needs food, and water, the basic needs of survival. Then they need to feel safe in their environment and to be in relative comfort. Without these two main base layers a human tends not to be able to care for others let alone themselves. During the Holocaust when these things are taken away from all of these people they begin to lose the ability to care for other people and being only to think about themselves. Which is evident when Ellie explains how he would be better off without his father, or at least begins to think that

They tried as hard as they could to stay together and even though they were facing a difficult situation they relied on each other. It was important to them to not lose their closeness even though they were deliberately being separated. Before even reaching the concentration camps when the Jews were being transported to the ghetto’s they had the opportunity to go live with other family where they would escape they were guaranteed safety. Though they refused to be separated and were willing to face anything to stay together. “Naturally we refused to be separated”(Wiesel 20). They needed each other to give them strength to go on to remind them that they will be okay. They also needed that touch of normalcy in their world where everything was changing. Though as time went on and they got to the camp everything changed. Just after reaching the gates of Auschwitz, Elie's father and himself were already separated from his mother and sister. They took the path to the barracks while they walked to path to death.The loss of half his family family caused Elie to make family just that more important to him. So the relationship between him and his dad became much stronger than before. While facing all the brutal conditions of the camp Elie and his father stood by each other and used each other as support.They faced many deportations and selections but still were able to remain together.They even watched a father/son brawl over food that ended in death for them both. They vowed to never get like that and betray each other. Though as they neared liberation his poor dad’s condition got worse and worse. His dad’s short future was very clear to Elie and the other prisoners. So as he tried to stay optimistic he couldn’t resist believing the inevitable and knew his dad wasn’t gonna live much longer. So while his dad stared death in the face he spoke to a fellow prisoner and

Elie and Mr. Wiesel, his father, see many terrible things in their time in the concentration camps. Imagery was used to describe these events in vivid detail. “His voice was terribly sad. I understood that he did not wish see what they would do to me. He did not wish to see his only son go up in flames” (Wiesel, 33). This shows how his father was affected by even the thought of his son in those flames. “I was terribly hungry, but I still refused to touch my ration. I was still the spoiled child of long ago. My father gobbled up my ration for me” (Weisel, 43). This shows that Ellie and his father were willing to sacrifice their ration for one another. The image of a dead child spoiled Ellie’s appetite, so he gave his food to his dad.

According to “Jakobs Story” The Holocaust was a bad place for the Jews and homosexuals and all the kind of people the Germans hated. Some people were put to death for even helping these people. Jacob states that “We were beaten constantly” (Jacob paragraph 8). This show how much these people were despised by society and the Germans. This also can show how the people suffered the these cams and had the make some kind of sacrifices.

How they were making them feel worthless and how they were making them feel all these negative things, Ellie tried to keep his faith but at the end of it he just couldn't do it anymore. One piece of evidence that supports that is “PRESSED TIGHTLY AGAINST one another, in an effort to resist the cold, our heads empty and heavy, our brains a whirlwind of decaying memories” (page 98). This shows that Elie is losing himself in the process of being physically and mentally abused by these people and he can’t take it anymore. Which this also goes along with the theme, by how it represents that Elie is going through this traumatic experience and he's losing himself along the way. Another piece of evidence is “AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE CAMP, SS officers were waiting for us. We were counted… The old, familiar fear: not to lose him” (page 104). When Ellie says that he doesn't want to lose “him” he's talking about his father. His father is the only family he has now that his other family members were taken away, Ellie is living inn in the dark and in fear of losing his father, he's scared. This connects to the theme by how he is once again in fear, of many things, but his main fear is losing his father and he's losing everything and he doesn't want to lose anything else he doesn't want to become any less of a person he doesn’t want to become any less emotionless.

The hanging before this court scene, on the other hand, proves the philosophies that, while the westerners may not have had quarrels with each other, they had plenty of violent feuds with the Native Indians already inhabiting the lands. In fact, most Civil War Veterans believed the Indians to be “subhuman and racially inferior to whites and therefore deserving of extermination if they could not be controlled by the white population” (Dilorenzo, 2010). The hanging scene simply depicts this hatred blatantly shown towards the Natives. Three men were going to be hanged but only two were allowed to make their final address to the ever-watchful. The two white males had their final words but as the Native man began to speak the hangman silenced him abruptly with a potato sac not allowing him the same respect given to the other men. Amazingly enough, the overall scene of the hanging was rather organized and a good view of the town square was applied to the picture of the West.

If everything was done correctly, the execution would be finished in a matter of seconds. Unfortunately, that was not usually the case, and the deaths were slow and painful. The end results of a hanging consisted of the eyes popping out of their sockets, protruding tongue, bloated face, defecation, and severe jerking of the body and appendages (Descriptions”).