Literary Night By Elie Wiesel

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.

Wiesel had to deal with his family being separated and tortured as well as his own account with facing injury and death and trying to survive. “Men to the left, women to the right! Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Yet that was the moment when I parted from my mother…we were alone. I saw my mother and sister disappear into the distance” (Wiesel 38).

There were also several negative father/son relationships found in the book. One such relationship is that of a young pipel, and his father. Wiesel writes, “I once saw one of them, 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?’” This is an example of how life in the concentration camp causes a boy to throw aside his relations for the sake of his own survival. A second example is that of Rabbi Elihou and his son. While Rabbi Elihou cared deeply for his son, the Rabbi’s son viewed his father as a burden and left him behind. Shortly following the passage about the Rabbi looking for for his son, Wiesel writes, “But then I remembered something else: his son had seen him losing ground, sliding back to the rear of the column… A terrible thought crossed my mind: What if he had wanted to be rid of his father?” The third example of a poor father/son relationship occurs in the cattle car. A worker throws bread into the cars causing immediate desperate fighting. An old man manages to grab a piece of bread shortly before this passage, “Stunned by the blows, the old man was crying: “Meir, my little Mier! Don’t you recognize me… You’re killing your father...I have bread... for you too…. for you to…but the other threw himself on top of him. The old man

Wiesel was still young when he was forcibly sent to a death camp. He was forcibly separated from his mother and sister at Auschwitz whom he never saw again. Luckily, he was able to stay in contact with his father throughout the book Night. He helped his father a lot, sometime giving up his food or encouraging him to prove he is fit to work because if the SS soldier found you were no help or weak you were most likely to be killed. “I was terribly hungry, yet i refused to touch it. I was

Kids tend to rebel against their parents as they grow older. In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel recalls his experiences with his family during World War II. His mother and sisters were taken away from him as soon as he arrived at Auschwitz, only his father remained. Elie Wiesel witnessed many terrible events during his first night at camp; the only thing that kept him in line was his father. Elie Wiesel’s father kept him from possibly killing himself. When Elie Wiesel lives in the concentration camp with his fellow Jews, he begins to question the fairness of God, who he had followed his entire life. Elie Wiesel lost faith in God, particularly the faith that He would use His divine power to help him, and he began to rely on his father instead, which gave him more reason to live.

If God helped the ones who were suffering, millions of lived could have been saved. Therefore, he believes it was judicious of him, to get angry at God. Mr. Wiesel also represents his relationship he had with his father, in the start. Mr. Wiesel does not regret choosing to go with his father, rather than his mother. He shows he loves his father, as much as he loves his mother. This is where Mr. Wiesel starts to build a strong bond with his father. This interview showcases three main themes: the consequence of human judgement, loss of faith in God, and father-son relationships.

The holocaust is the most deadly genocide in the world that impacted millions of life by controlling and running life because of one mean man. In Elie Wiesel memoir, The Night is describing his own experience before, during and after the holocaust. He describes in meticulous details his experience in the concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Buna with is father. Wiesel depicts how the Nazi slowly destructs every interpersonal relationship in the Jews community. Within the autobiography, Wiesel shows how the interpersonal relationships are important within the population in general, in the concentration camp and in more precisely with is own relationship with his family.

Soon after he and his father were split off from his mother sisters, be began to focus more on his own life rather than others. Occasionally he tried to help his father, but his father refused his offers. Towards the end of the story, Wiesel began worrying that his father would be killed for his feebleness. As stated in the book, "Whose was it? Mine? His? I said nothing. Nor did he. Never before had we understood each other so clearly” (Page 68). Wiesel and his father at first had separated thoughts, each in their own world; at this point, they both share and agree on the same thoughts, without even needing to speak to each other. The book would soon foreshadow the death of both of his parents when Wiesel stated, "How kindly they treated me. Like an orphan. I thought: Even now, my father is helping me” (Page 75). When Wiesel stated “Like an orphan”, he foreshadows the fact that his father would die. His mother would already be considered dead by him, so the death of his father would ultimately make him an orphan. However, Wiesel tried his best to keep his father alive, even though on many occasions, his father would offer his soup and bread to him. When selection came, Wiesel worried that his father would not survive. As he stated in the book, "I tightened my grip on my father's hand. The old, familiar fear: not to lose him” (Page 104). The relationship between the father and the son has grown strong,

Night by Elie Wiesel is a short book about Wiesel's experiences in the Auschwitz sub-camps. The theme developed by Wiesel throughout the text is the idea of loss and dehumanization, which are prevalent during the entire book. Wiesel writes this book from his own perspective, but he alters the character slightly to distance himself from the horrible events that occurred. The book is organized into parts, each with differing times which in turn cover the five years of his experiences. This essay will describe the relationship between Eliezer and his father, Schlomo. The relationship development aspects I will discuss occurred at the fire pits of Birkenau, the constant beating of Schlomo at Buna, and finally, Schlomo's death in Buchenwald.

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.

Elie Wiesel’s Night is about what the Holocaust did, not just to the Jews, but, by extension, to humanity. The disturbing disregard for human beings, or the human body itself, still to this day, exacerbates fear in the hearts of men and women. The animalistic acts by the Nazis has scarred mankind eternally with abhorrence and discrimination.

But a thought came into his head: “Don’t let me find him! If only I could get rid of this dead weight, so that I could use all of my strength to struggle for my own survival, and only worry about myself.” He was immediately ashamed, and would be forever (Wiesel 111). Then Wiesel found his father. In this case, their father-son relationship is both helpful and harmful.

Wiesel’s personal relationship with his father grew drastically during their time at Auschwitz, while his faith was reduced dramatically. Wiesel’s relationship with his father was strongest in arguably the hardest experience he

A son feels a responsibility to care for his father when he is ailing, because the father does the same for him. These themes resound in Elie Wiesel’s novel Night which was written about Wiesel’s experiences in Nazi concentration camps. This novel revolves around the father/son relationship in which Eliezer experiences first-hand and witnesses from afar. When Elie’s

In Night by Elie Wiesel, he tells of father-son relationship among the Jews during their stay in the concentration camps. Throughout the book, Wiesel narrates how these relationships changed over time with the bad situations, harsh experiences, and unfortunate circumstances faced by both fathers and sons alike. Pushed beyond the limits of humanity, father-son relationships that should have been healthy and beneficial no longer mattered. Fighting to survive, some of the relationships became harmful unto death. Fortunately, Wiesel’s relationship with his father does not progress that far regardless of the fact that they did not have a good father-son relationship prior to their imprisonment in the concentration camp.