Father Son Relationship In Night By Elie Wiesel

The Holocaust was a very terrible time in history over six million Jews perished in concentration camps. Even though in every tragedy there are survivors. Elie Wiesel was a little boy when all of this happened. He experienced all of the terrible things that happened during this time frame. While suffering in the terrible condition of the camp Elie and his father’s relationship goes through a drastic change.

There is nothing stronger than a father/son relationship. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel the author shows how important father/son relationships are in multiple scenarios during the Holocaust. When Elie gave his father marching lessons, when he saved him from being thrown off the train. Also when he switched bunks to be by his father so he would not die alone are all good examples of father/son relationships.

Elie Wiesel, the author of the novel Night, experienced a slew of changes to both his mental and physical state during the Holocaust. These changes included his religious beliefs, relationships with family and friends and his self-value, all which he documented in the book. Before his life-threatening experience, Elie was a hard working, religious teenager who cared about others. His relationship with his father was not the strongest yet it was not terrible either. The reason for this being, his father was a highly respected man in the community and was often sought out from other families to help them with their problems leaving him little time to forge a relationship with his son.

This first begins when young Elie attempts to assist and aid his aged father after he struggles with the expectations of the camp. “My father had never served in the military and could not march in step... I decided to give my father lessons… the inmates made fun of us,” describes Elie (Wiesel 55). Sacrificing himself in many ways throughout recurring events, Elie proves loyal to his father and willing to help him no matter the consequences, despite their contradictory past. Elie’s father soon becomes the main point of Elie’s mind, occupying as much space as though he was a giant.

The Holocaust was one of the most horrific and dehumanizing occurrences that the human race has ever endured. It evolved around cruelty, hatred, death, destruction and prejudice. Thousands of innocent lives were lost in Hitler's attempt to exterminate the Jewish population. He killed thousands of Jews by way of gas chamber, crematorium, and starvation. The people who managed to survive in the concentration camps were those who valued not just their own life but others as well. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author of the novel, Night, expressed his experiences very descriptively throughout his book. When Elie was just fifteen years old his family was shipped off

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.

The relationship between a father and son is one of the strongest relationships between family members. A son looking after his father might seem unusual, but in unusual circumstances, relationships are often forced to adapt. The father is the mentor and the son should look up to the father for support and guidance. This relationship plays out in Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, through the concentration camps. Hitler and the Nazi’s have been deporting Jews to concentration camps and eventually killing them. Wiesel travels through the horrible circumstances. In 1944, Elie Wiesel lives in Hungary with his parents and his three sisters, but they deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and is split up, but remained with his father. Wiesel describes his experiences traveling through different concentration camps with his father, Shlomo. Wiesel tells about the different people he meets and events that happen. Wiesel meets other fathers and sons, whose relationships are not going well. Elie and his father stick together as they face many challenges. As time went on in the camps the fathers became weaker and their chances of survival decreased. The sons helped their fathers go on, but this would slow the sons down. In his Holocaust memoir Night, Elie Wiesel uses the motif of father-son relationships to show that while there are benefits to having a strong connection with someone amidst extreme circumstances, there are also disadvantages because the other person may become a burden.

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,

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

In this memoir, “Night” by Elie Wiesel, a common theme in this memoir is family ties everything together. In the memoir after Elie’s dad died he was so heart broken and didn’t want to keep going. This memoir shows all the struggles that Elie and his father had to go through during the Holocaust. One thing that the author stood by the entire time was his father. His father was the only person or thing that made him keep going and not give up.

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.

The maid that worked at Elie’s home asked his family to come to her house to stay with her, but Elie denied the request because he did not want to leave his family. Later, when males and females were separated at the concentration camps, all Elie “could think of was not to lose [his father]. Not to remain alone” (Wiesel 30). Elie’s lifeline was his father and his ultimate goal was to stay with him and make sure that he was safe and not alone. During one of the selections, Elie and his father were sent into two different lines because Elie could walk fine but his father struggled. Elie immediately follows his father. Even though Elie knew that there could be a possibility for him to be shot by an officer, he did not want to risk losing his father. Elie and his father are only alive because they are stay together and take care of each other. When Elie and his dad had to evacuate the camp from Buna and run to Gleiwitz, Elie was tired and he wanted to give up hope. But while he was running,

In the story, Night by Elie Wiesel, there were many different types of relationships of father and son. The relationship with a son mistreating his father, a son leaving his father to die, a son attack a father just for his food and lastly the relationship between the author and his own son. It is true that self-preservation is a human instinct in which we all have, but would it be enough ruin everything between a father and son. It seems like nothing can separate a father and a son relationship since from the beginning a father will see their son like someone that can be a mini them. Just one thing can ruin everything, the feeling of only caring about yourself, self-preservation.

Throughout Night, the bond that Eliezer has with his father Chlomo passes through a rocky course, but eventually becomes stronger due to the isolation and ultimately the death of Chlomo. This rocky course has events that that go from being inseparable in Birkenau, to feeling as though he is a burden. In between, there are times where Elizer’s relationship is clearly falling apart and then being fixed. The camps greatly influence the father-son relationship that Elie and Chlomo have, sometimes for the better, and sometimes for worse. Originally in 1941 when the Wiesel family was living in Sighet, Eliezer took Chlomo for granted, as any child would. Little did he know that their relationship would permanently change forever.

In his book, Night, Elie Wiesel spoke about his experience as a young Jewish boy in the Nazi concentration camps. During this turbulent time period, Elie described the horrifying events that he lived through and how that affected the relationship with his father. Throughout the book, Elie and his father’s relationship faced many obstacles. In the beginning, Elie and his father have much respect for one another and at the end of the book, that relationship became a burden and a feeling of guilt. Their relationship took a great toll on them throughout their journey in the concentration camps.