Night Elie Wiesel Analysis

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

His compassion towards his father, shown through this quote, helps demonstrate the compassion that Elie gave to others in the story. This is very important that Elie did this because of the difficult and hard time of the

When Elie and his family are sent to a concentration camp, he is fortunate enough to not be separated from his father. At first, this is a relief, and is father is his will to survive. “The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot… My father’s presence was the only thing that stopped me. He was running next to me, out of breathe, out of strength, desperate. I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his sole support.”(86)

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.

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”, said Elie Wiesel the author of night. Elie Wiesel is a holocaust survivor, he went through 5 different concentration camps. He was dehumanized, malnourished, and abused. He lost all his possessions, his family, and his humanity. In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, the German Army dehumanizes Elie Wiesel and the jewish prisoners by depriving them of family, food, and self esteem.

As Elie’s life continues he endures more tests that at his age majority of the people would not have experienced. Elie's father was suffering from dysentery and other maladies. On the night of January 28th in 1945, Elie goes to his bunk in exhaustion with his father still alive and in the bunk below him, “I had to go to sleep. I climbed into my bunk, above my father, who was still alive. The date was January 28, 1945”(112). In the morning, Elie wakes up to a new person in the bed where his father had laid. Elie realizes that he has no emotion left to show, especially not sympathy, “I

In Night by Elie Weisel, his father fails to give an account of what he heard at the council meeting so therefore nobody knows what’s going on. Secondly, the sighet residents aren’t listening to Moishe the Beadle who has already experienced a concentration camp. All the Jews are relying on Elie’s Father to give them information because they think what Moishe said was false.Once everyone steps of the train, they find out that what Moishe said wasn’t false. It’s ironic that people believed Elie’s father instead of Moishe the Beadle because Elie’s father was a respected leader of the community and Moishe was not a prominent figure in the town of sighet.

Both Elie and his father craved to put their bodies at ease, yet they both knew that sleeping meant never waking again and so Elie made a proposition, saying “We’ll take turns. I’ll watch over you and you’ll watch over me. We won’t let each other fall asleep. We’ll look after each other,” (89). Different from the other prisoners who followed the idea of “every man for himself”, Elie and his father had each other to count on. Throughout this whole journey, the relationship between the father and son appears to have made their bond stronger out of deepened love, along with their formidable situation and desperation to survive. Although their situation caused the push that made them closer and formed their mutual dependency, the appearance of the dependence on one another also strips the title of ‘hero’ from Elie’s father. Even though his father is the reason he fights to live, he is now an equal to him, where normally a dad, or hero, would be the to place their needs behind the other party. But, under their circumstances, they both equally need help and support from the

“Free at last!” (Wiesel 112). “With the death of Eliezer's father, the spiraling down into the narrowing chasm is complete, and Eliezer is left “terribly alone in a world without God and without man.” The journey is at its end” (Estess). It is reveled in the book that after his father died. It is revealed that after his father died, Elie lost all connection with himself (Wiesel 113). “Throughout the book, though, whenever Eliezer questions his father or considers that he is becoming a burden, he eventually chastises himself, much as he does when he realizes that his father has finally died. Eliezer is not a rebellious teenager but, instead, one with a conscience” (Sanderson). He soon regrets this and feels guilty. “He has survived, but it is a survival he can no more come to terms with than the wholly meaningless deaths visited on his family and the millions of others”

After losing his mother and sister in chapter three of Night, Elie says, “All I could think of was not to lose him [His father]” (30). This quote shows the importance of family because it say that the only thing that Elie could think about is not losing his father. “The baton pointed left. I took half a step forward. I first wanted to see where they would send my father. Were he to have gone to the right, I would have run after him” (32). This quote shows how much Elie’s father means to him. Knowing full well that he would get beat by a guard if he ran to his father, he would have just to be with him. Elie’s relative, Stein, shows how family is important to him by repeatedly saying, “The only thing that keeps me alive, is to know that Reizel and the little ones are still alive. Were it not for them, I would give up” (45). Overall, these three quotes show the importance of family to Elie, his father, and Stein, his

Elie’s thoughts and actions reflect his reliance on his father in the camp. When he is going through selection for a komodo, he begs, “I want to stay with my father” page 48.

But that wasn’t the best situation to be in. He wondered why Elie didn’t go with his mother. at that moment Elie realized that “he did not wish to see his only son go up in flames.” (33). Imagine seeing and knowing that your own flesh and blood will sooner or later die because of who they are and you couldn’t do anything about it. That thought finally hit elies fathers mind and finally sunk in and he started opening up and showing the true love he had for elie and since than they have been getting closer than ever. After that all they wanted to do was stay close to each other, to be in each other’s comfort. while being assigned to stations elie said “ please, sir… I’d like to be near my father.” (50) , all elie wanted was to be next to his father the whole time, the one he knew would never give up on him.

The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, tells the story of a young boy surviving through the Holocaust. The story conveys the effects of this barbaric event on the boy emotionally, physically, and mentally. This crude, genocidal imperial impacted millions of people. This story focuses mainly on Elie Wiesel's perspective on the Holocaust; considering his many years of labor, servitude, and transportation through multiple concentration camps. At such a young age, he was put through torturous anguish. Throughout this story, he explains the effect of the Holocaust on him as a boy along with how he handled it.

As noted on page 111, “In fact, you should be getting his rations...too late to save your father...you could have two rations of bread, two rations of soup.” (Page 111) Here it is shown that Elie will receive his father’s rations, but in the beginning of the book he is always trying to help his father and keep him alive. Realizing that he can’t save his father, he begins to show that there is nothing else left for him to care for. Another example of his loss sympathy would be, “I shall not describe my life during that period it longer mattered.” (Page 113)The death of his father certainly changed they way he thought of his own life, and without his father he showed no more care for anything else. Not only does he lose his sympathy for others, but even his own life wasn’t worth caring

Elie went behind a building because he heard a sound coming from there. When Elie got behind the building he saw that Idek was with a polish girl. The polish girl didn't have a top on. Idek punished Elie for leaving his work, but the real reason why he punished him was because Elie saw him with the polish girl. “I was thinking of my father. He would be suffering more than I” (Wiesel 58). Elie just gotten whipped by Idek so he could keep his mouth shut about what he saw. When Elie was in so much pain that he couldn’t even open his eyes, he wasn't thinking about himself he was wondered about how his father was feeling. Even when he’s in so much pain he care about his father. In my opinion I believe that Elie used all his strength to get better and survive for his father. “I said nothing. Nor did he. Never before had we understood each other so clearly” (Wiesel 68-69). Elie and his father have a bond together that on the day of New Years, when Elie went to see his father before going to sleep they both knew what each other were feeling. When Elie got to his father he got his hand and kissed it. Elie felt a tear on his hand, he didn't know if it was his or his father’s but it didn't matter as long as they were