Family Bond In Night

Before the atrocities within the Holocaust take place Wiesel's relationship with his father is distant and cold. Ellie writes “My father wept. It was the first time I had ever seen him weep. I had never imagined that he could”(Wiesel 16). By stating that he couldn't imagine his father cry, it hammers home the idea of how removed Elie was from his father's emotions. There is an emotional disconnect between them; expressing emotion wasn't prevalent. This allows for a harsh contrast to the emotions felt by both Wiesel and his father after they arrive at Auschwitz. When Wiesel describes his father at the beginning of the book he describes him by stating “My father was a cultured, rather unsentimental man. There was never any display of emotion, even at

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

Imagine, losing the part of you that makes you unique, or being treated like you were worth absolutely nothing. Think about losing all that you hold on to: your family, friends, everything that you had. Imagine, being treated like an animal, or barely receiving enough food to live. All of these situations and more is what the Jews went through during the Holocaust. During the period of 1944 - 1945, a man by the name of Elie Wiesel was one of the millions of Jews that were experiencing the wrath of Hitler’s destruction in the form of intense labor and starvation. The novel Night written by the same man, Elie Wiesel, highlights the constant struggle they faced every single day during the war. From the first acts of throwing the Jews into

First, “Despite the darkness, I could see my father turn pale. “What's wrong?” be asked “ I don't know I have been summoned to a special meeting of the conical. Something must have happened.” on page 12. This part of the books is showing us that Elie Wiesel is using the technique tone with how the characters are responding to the problem. At the same time he also uses the goal of stirring emethy with tone being the technique, like with, “You old loafer! He started yelling, is this what you call working? And he began beating him with a iron bat” on page 38. This was a very interesting part of the reading because while Elie is showing his empathy for his father, Elie Wiesel also came through by also showing Elies tone in his writing. In this part of the reading Elie was watching his father getting beat but did nothing because he wanted to stay out of it so they he would remain strong for his father. Of cause there were different ways Elie Wiesel showed his amazing writing skills. For example, on page 93 Elie is a barack and encounters Juliek, one of his old friends he hasn't seen in awhile. “Juliek is that you? Yes!...”. With the punctuation that Elie Wiesel used is showing us that Elie's tone is happy and in the scene Elie is introducing a new character, that loves the violin and in his last moments played his violin.

Throughout the novel, we can understand that in the beginning, the relationship between Elie and his father was not the best because Elie believed his father cared more about the Jewish community than him. However, by the time the father and the son only had each other, they were depending on each other. Elie was only living for his father because he knew his father would not survive without him. They were both helping each other in a ways surviving. For example, Elie gave his father lessons in marching step, to help him survive (55). Also, Elie became less and less emphatic toward his dad during the concentration camp days. The Nazi sabotages the wonderful bond a father and a son had together. Elie could see his own father get beaten up and even than; he had no emotion or anger (39). Once his father got beat up with an iron bar, and Elie did nothing to help him, he just stood there (54). Even thought he had no emotion, even when his father past away, Elie said “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!...

The holocaust is a time where people threw Jews out of their home and started killing them, for no reason. The book Night by Elie Wiesel is about a Jewish family getting sent to a concentration camp. The Wiesel family only knows one house. They get thrown out of their own house, sent on a long journey, just to be set up to die. But, out of a family the family, only 1 survives. But, he has to go through the time of thinking of that his family had died. Family is something many people take advantage of, but Elie now understands that family is important because he lost his Mom and sister at an early age, his father died before he got to say goodbye, and when you lose family members, you have thoughts that there is no reason to do anything.

When Elie and his family enter the concentration camp at Birkenau. After being separated from his mother and sister. That’s when he really starts worrying about his father. So Elie and his father are not together and he can not see his father. Elie portrays his emotional as he watched his father get beats badly. “Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails in the criminals flesh (Wiesel 39).” Although they did not have a close

In 1940 , Hungary annexed sighet and the wiesel’s were among the jewish families and forced to live in the ghettos.May 1944,Nazi Germany with the Hungary’s agreement, forced jews living in Sighet to be deported to Auschwitz concentration camp. At the age of Fifteen Wiesel’s family were sent to Auschwitz as part of the holocaust, which took the lives of more than 6 million jews. Wiesel’s family was affected during the holocaust, all jews were forced to have their heads shaved and a number tattooed on their heads after all the men left the barber they were all standing around naked finding acquaintances and old friends, they are joyful at finding each other still alive. Elie Wiesel’s Night highlights the overarching issues of discrimination toward the Jews as they are forced to abandon their lives and face a death that consumer their existence, relationships and faith.

The Holocaust is a horrific genocide that took the lives of 11 million people. In 1933, the Jewish population stood at over nine million. By 1945, the Germans had killed nearly 2 out of every 3 European Jews. One of the few survivors, Elie Wiesel, was able to create a memoir called “Night” about his trying times at the camps. In the story, a young jewish boy and his family get ripped from their home in Sighet and sent to horrendous concentration camps where most people's lives come to an end. During their time at the concentration camps, Elie, his father, and his fellow Jews are atrociously dehumanized by being starved, put through unrealistic amounts of physical activity, and having their identities revoked.

For example during a long run to switch facilities a man and his son are running side by side but start to split Elie says“He wanted to be rid his father”(91). This shows how an intense lifestyle such as this tears their relationship apart as if you would slow down to much on a run you would be killed this son obviously thought that his father was dead weight and he selfishly abandon him. In comparison with Elie and his father this son showed no empathy as Elie did and he just abandon his father. Another demonstration of the betrayal and lack of empathy would come from when Elie and his father are in a cattle car on there way to a new camp. There packed in tight with dozens of other prisoners two of which Elie notices are a father and son bread ends up in the father's hand then this happens“Don't you recognize me...You're killing your father”(101). This event shows just how selfish and heartless many were made to be. Though they were father and son they acted as strangers would with no mercy and only emotion being a will to live.This aswell shows just how independent the son had become,rather then work together he’d rather fight to get food.Elie and his father stayed close in the camps unlike the many other fathers and sons that broke down under the poor

Over the course of the novel Elie’s relationship with his father is distant then closer as they stay in the concentration camps and depend on each other. As his father becomes sick the roles are reversed. Under the harsh environment, humans

This essay going to talk about how the author feel/describe father and son relationship when Elie were young. The way how the author describe about his father when they were at concentration camp. Elie and Mr. Wiesel, they don’t really use to be close relationship but when they get into concentration camp and they starting to take a care and protect each other so they can survive through the awful concentration camp. Elie feel that his father cared more about others in the community more than his family. In the novel, Night by Elie Wiesel the author use many different examples of father/son relationship that grow more sincere and honest everyday when they’re in the camp. There is three examples about how author think or describe about his worst

As their treatment started to get worse Elie began to change. He still tried to stay with his father but his thoughts about him began to change. He watched his father be beat by a Kommandant and thought about how he was glad it was not him. Throughout the book Elie would have mixed emotions about his father. He would think bad things about him and then get mad at himself for doing so.

The book Night, a true story by Eliezer Wiesel, explains the horrific journey he and others had during the time of the Holocaust. It explains how harsh the Jews were treated in the concentration camps. The discrimination Elie Wiesel and so many others were faced with based on their looks and beliefs is very unacceptable and it’s important because many innocent lives were taken which is important to understand that the whole act of the Holocaust is a senseless act and should never nor any other similar tragedies take place again. Elie Wiesel and the others involved in the terrible journey of the Holocaust were treated with full disrespect in ways that they were brutally beaten, separated from loved ones, starved, and killed in such brutal ways. Elie Wiesel as well as others made the choice to have hope and keep their faith strong or to be overcome by evil keeping in mind that a person’s faith can be

Elie’s father Shlomo, cared mostly about the community and not much on his son as he “was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (Wiesel 4). Although distant, Elie accepted the fact that his “father's view was that it was not all bleak, or perhaps he just did not want to discourage the others, to throw salt on their wounds” (Wiesel 11), so they both lived in a correspondence of distance until it was interrupted. The most emotion Elie ever sees his dad emit is when his “father was crying. It was the first time [he] saw him cry. [He] had never thought it possible” (Wiesel 19) until the transportation order came to the ghetto and he could no longer restrain his emotions. Elie and his father are very distant but the Nazis under Hitler’s reign will change this relationship and the pressure to protect