Analytical Essay On Night By Elie 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

This book interested me because it is a great example of what so many people went through in concentration camps throughout Europe in World War II. So many books have been written about personal accounts of war hardships suffered by the Jews but so few capture the true problems faced by prisoners. The impossible decision between survival and family was a difficult one faced by many during this time. Elie had an unfaltering will to live when his father was alive with him but once his father died the reason for living disappeared. But he once was faced with the decision of helping to keep his father alive or let him die and have an extra ration of food. How can one be stuck with a decision like this and not choose survival? Only true unselfishness can cause you to help someone

At first,Elie describes his father as emotionless and states that he is more interested in others well-being rather than of his own family.However,as they are moved into the ghettos and ultimately the concentration camps he begins to see the more caring side of him.Yet it is only at the camps that when things keep getting worse that we can see how much Elie cared about his father.When his father was weak

First, Elie’s father has a positive effect on him, because his father is his only motivation to even want to live and move on with life. In the book in chapter 3, when they arrive at at the concentration camp Auschwitz, Elie get separated from his mom and his sister Tzipora,

His love for his family helps him to keep going through all the pain. Elie Wiesel shows through his survival in the concentration camps that the love in family can support you through hardships and extreme loss by giving you resilience to keep going. Elie’s resilience kept him from giving

Elie had to face the Nazi’s who were killing his people quicker, and more often. He had to survive and get out of the brutal nature of the Nazi’s. These two characters both have to face death coming right towards them and they both keep their resilience by teaching themselves how to

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.

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the father and son have their good moments and they also have their downsides. But over all I think they’ve gotten closer to each other more than further apart. Both Elie and his dad stuck by each other’s sides through everything, to them losing each other would be the end. But luckily they stuck by each other throughout the concentration camps. Throughout the story you will see them growing further apart, but when they notice they are they come right back to each other.

Elie was able to survive the concentration camps for several reasons, I believe a major driving force being his family. Expanding upon this further, his father had been the main reason for Elie’s survival; although, his father was unable to provide anything for

One less reason to live.”pg 109. Elie goes through many emotions throughout Night. He feels so much hatred towards the soldiers, that it hides all his other emotions. Another emotion is Love; the main reason Elie is still alive. He loves his father to much to give up on life. But when his father died he had a small amount of reasons to live. Emotions can cloud people's judgement. An example of that would be when he gave his father water when he was suffering. But his consequence was that his father would die earlier than he was supposed to. He begins to lose his emotions at the end of the book Being in the camps taught him that there isn't time to feel emotions. When he loses his father he feels nothing. Emotions make a person human and the camps took that

After that separation he never saw his sisters and mom again. He remained close to his father at all times(27). They were always hungry no food seemed to satisfy because it was never enough (21). At the camps they wore striped shirts and pants(25). They had bad conditions like not eating or drinking enough, having it too crowded and having the camp smell like “burning flesh” (30). They also had to get all of their hair shaved off of their whole bodies (33). In the morning they had coffee, noon they had some soup,then after roll call they received some bread (40).Elie lost a lot of faith during his time at Auschwitz because he had no idea why people would treat other people like this and have God watch it (42). Since they can not own gold they had dentist check them to make sure that they do not have any gold in their mouth from a tooth filling (46). Toward the end of the war they killed many of Jews on a way to another camp but Elie and his father seemed to have survived. They went to a camp called Buchenwald (98). His father at Buchenwald wanted to die because he had enough. Elie tried to show him by looking at all the corpses around begging his father to not be another one of those corpses.(100). On January 29th 1945 his dad had died from illness

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.

Many families suffer from issues of hunger, money, addiction, and more. But not many family conflicts lead to a family member killing another family member. This although, was a common occurrence during the Holocaust. Many of the Jews killed each other for food and other needs that people now take for granted. In Elie Wiesel's novel, Night, Elie shows the digression of families throughout the beginning, middle and end of the book to demonstrate the inhumanity of the prisoners at the camps.

Before Elie went to the concentration camps, he had many good character traits such as loyalty, Religious, and Impatient. For Example, on page 33, it says “If that is true then I don’t want to wait. I’ll run into the electrified barbed wire. That would be easier than a slow death in the flames” (Wiesel). During this part of the book, Elie and his dad had just arrived at Auschwitz and were being put in a line that was leading to death. Nevertheless, this shows that he is being impatient because he was facing death head on and knew that he might die so he was choosing a quick death rather than burning and slowly dying. Another trait Elie showed before the concentration camp was loyalty. For instance, on page 36, Elie stated “Please sir I’d like to be by my father” (Wiesel). In this part of the book Elie and his family were being separated at the camp and Elie lied about his age so he could stay with his dad. In contrast Elie showed loyalty to his dad by not going with his mom and sister and staying with his dad. This was a very big decision by Elie because he chose the hard way by staying with his dad even if that meant death.

Family is something everyone cherishes, from the time you are born till the time you die. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, this is shown very clearly. This book follows a young boy named Elie through his struggle with the Holocaust. Elie is a jew who lived in a small Jewish community, but when people came and began changing the way they lived Elie decided to stay with his family no matter what happened. Throughout the book, Elie is put through much more grief due to staying by his father's side. Strong family bonds can sustain people through tragedy and hardship.