Family In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

In the book, “Night” by Elie Wiesel talks about the challenges from living at the concentration camps. Elie expresses how family is key to survival and how families are crucial in our lives and how they can motivate us to keep surviving.
When Elie and his father were in the cattle car, they recognized a woman named Madame Schächter. Madame Schächter had three children, but, “Her husband and two older sons had been deported with the first transport, by mistake. The separation had totally shattered her” (Weisel 24). The effect of Madame Schächter’s sons being deported was having her heart shattered. This action reveals that because her family left she had no motivation to try to live and ended up turning mad because of the lack of handling

Forcing all of the Jews to run toward their destination. During that time, Elie was on the verge of giving up. Nevertheless, Elie reminded himself that he should try and live because of his father. Saying that “My father 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? I was his sole support” (Wiesel 86-87). Elie told himself that he had to live because his only family was now his father. Because of this, Elie realized that if he died then his father would be alone and he would lose all of his motivation to keep on going without Elie. Resilience is presented in this quote because even though Elie felt like giving up because his body was hurting he thought of his father and he kept on going. It represents how resilient Elie is because even though he felt as if he was on the verge of dying Elie never stopped

When Elie and his father were being selected, the left was for the weak and the right to survive. Elie was sent to the right, and his father was sent to the left. Elie then dashed to the left to construct a big distraction to bring his father back to the right. “I inched my way through the crowd. Several SS men rushed to find me, creating such confusion that a number of people were able to switch over the right-among them my father and I” (Wiesel 96). Resilience is shown through this quote because it shows how even though Elie was sent to the left he knew that without his father his resilience would disappear. Elie used his resilience to cross into the left section and successfully bring his father back to the other side so that they can’t be