Examples Of Father Son Relationship In 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

When the Russians were close to Buna the Germans rounded up all the prisoners they could and evacuated the camp. Elie was in the infirmary due to an infection on his foot, but all he could think about was staying close to his father. They had already suffered and endured so much that it was not the time to be separated. After many days of running, marching, and a long train ride under horrendous weather they reached Buchenwald. By then Elie’s father was already sick and weak. The sirens began to wail and they were chased into the blocks. At this point, sleep was all that mattered to Elie, not his father.

After 3 weeks at Auschwitz, they get deported to Buna, which is a turning point for the relationship between Elie and Chlomo. The camps influence Elie and give him a crooked mind focused on staying alive and nothing else. This leads to him disregarding his father. This twisted way of thinking, due to the camps, is making Elie cheer during bomb raids at Buna. He states his thoughts “But we were no longer afraid of death, at any rate, not of that death” (57). This shows that he is willing to die to see the camps destroyed. The most horrifying event that demonstrates his twisted mind is when Eliezer pays no heed to his father while he was being repeatedly beat with an iron bar. Eliezer, rather than acting indifferent and showing nothing, actually feels angry with his father. “I was angry at him for not knowing how to avoid Idek’s outbreak” (52). The new lifestyle of the camps affected Elie and his relationship with his father for the worse.

Elie Wiesel's description of the relationship he shared with his father, Shlomo, prior to the Holocaust, shows that it is distant and lacks the chemistry a father and son usually possess. Elie retells that his father did not show signs of encouragement when he wanted to study the Kabbalah: "You are too young for that. Maimonides tells us that one must be thirty before venturing into the world of mysticism, a world fraught with peril. First you must study the basic

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,

Throughout history many tragedies have taken place and affected humanity for generations to come. The Holocaust is one of history’s most influential events to take place. The Holocaust had long-term effects that changed people for the rest of their lives and each person after them. An example of the effects that the Holocaust had on people and their descendents who have experienced it, is seen in the book Night, by Elie Weisel. Because of the Holocaust, Elie’s family and himself were affected by changing their outlook on loss, religion, and struggle.

Eliezer and his father had a rocky relationship to begin with in Night by Elie Wiesel. But as the book goes on, their relationship develops into more of a dependency, portraying that they rely on one another to survive. In the first few months, it seems as if Eliezer’s father is more of the supporter than Eliezer himself, but as Eliezer’s journey with his father progresses it transforms, and Eliezer becomes his father’s rock which he is ok with. Near the end of the book, you see the biggest transformation in this relationship. Eliezer goes from supporting his father to seeing him as burden, showing the inner change that Eliezer himself has gone through throughout his experience in the camps.

“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

In the book Night, there were three father son relationships. They were all very different but at the same time had many similarities. Being in the Holocaust really changed their relationships.

We are reading a book called “Night” by Elie Wiesel. In this book there are three father parent relationships. The three relationships are Elie and his dad, Rabbi Eliahou and his son and Meir and the man who stole bread. I am going to see how each of them are alike and different.

Upon arriving at the camps, the SS guards forced the families to be separated by gender. By sticking by his father’s side, Elie knowingly veres away from his mother who can’t offer any protection against the guards. ‘“Eight words spoken … we were alone”’ (Wiesel 27). Elie realizes how attached he was the his mother and that they were being sent straight into the crematory for one reason, because they were useless to the German SS guards. In this moment, Elie was beyond scared with what was to happen to him and his father. They could be going straight into the crematory or to fight in the war or just sit around and do nothing. Later we find out that the two men along with many others were worked hard and looked after by ruthless people. Being around his father made Elie realize that his father was making an effort in trying to understand Elie and how they would survive the camp as a family. Splitting up their family took a toll on Elie because he is so close with his mother and sisters and it feels like there is a whole inside his heart because he couldn’t protect them like his father protects him. Elie now knows that his mother will love him unconditionally even though she is dead and that his mother will be watching over Elie and his father as they attempt to survive the

Eliezer's relationship with his father is very distant. It starts of as barely one at all, his father barely pays any attention to him and directs most of his care to the community. His father blew off Eliezer's attempt to study the cabala. He merely told him to wait until he was thirty or so. His father barely listened to him when he should have, if at all. Whenever Eliezer talks to him it's almost like a sort of apathy in a sense, he just doesn't seem to care at all. Whenever his father was beaten in the concentration camp Eliezer never reacted as strongly as you think he would, instead it was more of a momentary freezing of his entire being and then resuming to whatever he was doing.

they had some help from the jews who were already locked up . either they listened to the prisoners or end up exactly like them . eliezer tried everything to be with his father . and to not to get seperated like what happened to the rest of his family . before he came to this camp he was a totally different person.

Elie is young and belongs to a family that is Jewish. They are part of a Jewish community where the father is highly respected within the Jewish community and they receive a lot of respect from others. As the story progresses, Elie and his family along with the Jewish community end up being transported harshly to a concentration camp where they are abused and treated more inhumanly than imaginable. Each family is torn apart and men and women go their separate ways, children are taken away from parents, and crematoriums become a normal thing. In the beginning of the book, Elie talks about how him and his father are not extremely close, but as the story continues, Elie and his father learn to rely on each other.

Before they know what is to transpire, their relationship is nonchalant showing little emotion and support. Eliezer’s father is a well-respected man in his community and has a better connection with them than his family: “He rarely displays his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kid” (Wiesel 4). Being needed often leaves him little opportunity to spend with his household. He also does not approve of Eliezer’s wish to study Kabbalah: “First you must study the basic subjects, those you are able to comprehend” (Wiesel 4). He thinks Eliezer is too young