Detrimental. Unimaginable. Unbearable. These three words are the very essence of what Elie Wiesel went through in his memoir, Night. Night is about the struggles of Jewish concentration camps not only for Elie himself, but for Elie's relationship with his father. In the camps, Elie and his father only had each other, and that changed the way they felt about each other from the very beginning. Elie had almost no relationship with his father prior to the holocaust. Back in his hometown of Sighet, Elie's father was a busy community leader, and his work gave him little time for his family. Elie recalls that his father "rarely displayed his feelings... and was more involved with the well welfare of others than with that of his own kin" (Wiesel