Night Elie Wiesel Analysis

One internal conflict Elie experienced was the loss of all of his family. While he was in the concentration camps, he and his father were the only ones in his family that were left. “My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone,” which was stated on page 30, explains how he and his father were all that were left and his father would have to be there for Elie during that time. They fought hard together through the cold nights

“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

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 was a distraction to him which helped him to not give up because he knew that would hurt his father even more. According to the book Night (pages 86 and 87), “My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me. He was running next to me, out of breath, out of strength, desperate. I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me?

Constantly worrying about his father, Wiesel recalls one specific event, saying, “I anxiously thought of my father, who was at work” (Wiesel 60). Rather than pushing his father out of his life, he openly invites him into his thoughts, greatly contrasting with their previous relationship in the beginning of the novel. Finally viewing his father in a respectful perspective, their relationship clearly advances after Elie approaches his father for help and advice. “‘What are we going to do?’ My father didn't answer...

In the beginning of the book, before experiencing life threatening difficulties, Elie was much more determined to stay with his family (in order to survive). Eliezer thought that his father was what kept him going and gave him strength, he was certain that the right thing to do was to stay with his dad. In chapter 3 Wiesel states, “My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone” (30). In these sentences, Elie explains that he and his father needed to stay together. This quote also shows what Elie’s emotions were; he was scared to suffer through the concentration camp alone. Elie also shows his need for family when he says, “Franek, the foreman, assigned me to a corner... ‘Please, sir ... I’d like to be near

.As Elie’s father continues to show that now he is dependent on Elie, Elie slowly but surely grows into a parent. Elie believed he needed to be by his father because his father needed him. At one point in the novel, on page 108 Elie makes a sacrifice for the little bit of food that they barely get for his father, “For a ration of bread I was able to exchange cots to be next to my father”. Elie

Mr.Wiesel felt the need to care of his son and knew they had to stick together to stay alive and survive but near the end Mr.Wiesel became very ill and had dysentery, leading from the time he became ill, the roles got reversed and Elie felt the need to take care of his father. So Elie did whatever he could to keep his father alive by giving him some of his rations, helped him up when his father was too weak to stand up by himself, and more. Then Mr.Wiesel became even more weak and his time was up soon, Elie did his best to try and help his father survive but had been taken from the barracks due to the people having to remove all of the dead bodies from the barracks, so when Elie woke up from his discomforting slumber, his father was gone.

Strong bonds built upon trust and dependability can last a lifetime, especially through strenuous moments when the integrity of a bond is the only thing that can be counted on to get through those situations. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he writes about his life spent in the concentration camps, while explaining the experiences and struggles that he went through. However, not everything during that period was completely unbearable for Wiesel. When Wiesel arrived at the first camp, Birkenau, the fear instilled in him and the loneliness he would have felt forced him to form a stronger attachment to his father. That dependence towards his father gave Wiesel a reason to keep on living. In turn, his father was able to support Wiesel and make the experiences in the camps a bit more manageable.

15 years old. Summer. You should be tanning in the bright summer sun or riding your newly bought bike around the path by the lake. Insted, your role has flipped and you are caring for your sick father who is dying, something someone at this age should never have to experience. The Holocaust based texts Night by Elie Wiesel and the film the Last Days produced by Steven Spielberg, are well thought out examples of the young struggling while turning their backs on their youth. All of these examples showcase the struggle teens and young children faced during their time in ghettos and camps. In dire circumstances, these texts argue that Holocaust children are forced to abandon their youth.

In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, Wiesel alludes to the book of Leviticus when he says that his life was “seven times cursed” and to the book of Revelation when he states that he was “seven times sealed.” Wiesel alludes to Leviticus, which describes how God will punish the people who go against his will. He alludes to the book of Leviticus in order to illustrate the atrocities that he had encountered during his days at the concentration camps. The horrid sights that Wiesel saw during his first night at the concentration camp caused him to lose his faith in God. According to Wiesel, due to his abandonment of faith in God, he was harshly punished. The punishments were as severe as the punishments that God threatened to enforce in Leviticus. Later, Wiesel alludes to the text of

“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.

Kofi Atta Annan, a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations once said, “We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values.” (www.finestquotes.com). Just because someone may look or act different, there is no reason to treat that person entirely different when in reality, that person is just the same. Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel struggled to understand why only the Jews were being treated horribly in the world. He knew that deep down, everyone is the same. As the Nazis tortured the Jews, Elie tried his best to be strong and look on the brighter side. Elie and his family were taken by the Nazis to a

many times during the book it talks about Wiesel’s problems. Elie’s first problem would be when he was in Buna, a concentration camp. This was a problem for Wiesel because he didn't have food, water, and at sometimes air. In the book Elie says “ At ten o’clock we were given our daily ration of bread” (Wiesel 34 ). This quote shows how that they only got bread once a day from their SS Officers, and that they didn't have food. Another problem Wiesel had is the loss of family. Elie got taken away from his mom and sister when they were deported on the train but got to stay with his father. Elie says “ I certainly do. But on one condition: I want to stay with my father” (Wiesel 35). With Elie being taken away from his mom and sister, he wanted to stay with his father through the whole thing. Wiesel’s father was his strength to stay alive. Elie had tough adversities he had to go through in his life and he was strong and overcame them.

In Elie Wiesel's Night, the relationship between Elie and his father is put at stake in the concentration camps of Auschwitz. Elie is doing everything in his power to keep him and his father alive. They are the ultimate reason why they made it so far through the camps and why Elie is still alive today. The entire journey