Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

Within the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the author writes about his experience through the holocaust. The entire novel Elie’s goal was consistent, he wanted to stay untied with his father at all times. In the beginning of the novel Elie and his father were separated from his mother and sister. The author came to the realization that he would never meet his mother or sister again, so he decided that he would always be by his fathers side. The moment Elie was separated from his mother and sister, “all I [Elie] could think of was not to lose him [Elie’s father],” (Wiesel 30). This thought ran through Elie’s mind while he was waiting in line to inform the SS officer his age and profession. Next to him in line was his father and another inmate.

At the end of the memoir, Elie’s father suffered from dysentery. Each day he became more and more ill. Eventually the author tried to get his father to the doctors, but he was too frail to move, so he stays in his bunk. Elie’s father kept begging for water, and in result he would get beaten up by the guards. On January 29th Elie woke up and found another sick inmate in his father’s previous bunk. Elie assumed that the guards must have taken his father to be cremated before day-break, and replaced with another patient. Once Elie’s father died there was no more hope in his life, “since my father’s death, nothing mattered to me anymore,” (Wiesel 113). After this Elie describes his life as being worthless. Through this whole experience Elie had one purpose, to keep his father alive and with him. Elie’s hope lied within his father, so when his father was gone, his faith vanished. With no more determination, nothing seemed to matter anymore. Elie’s father being deceased was a turning point in the book. This was the moment where all optimism was gone and Elie would have to survive by himself. Later on in the book Elie’s only focus was on food. At 6 o'clock in the afternoon on April 10th in front of the Buchenwald gates stood the first american tanks. Soon after Elie was a freed man and survived this terrible journey. The entire book Elie’s