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Eli Yanakakis Character Description

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Eli Yanakakis is just your average fifteen year old son of billionare Rex Yanakakis. Well, except for the fact that him and almost his entire family are currently surviving in a luxorious underground bunker while the outside world is supposedly in ruins from a nuclear attack. Eli, who is the narrator and main protagonist, is still coming to terms with the fact that his identical twin brother, Eddy, did not make it to the Compound- six years after the doors shut. To keep a part of his brother with him, Eli had not cut his hair since he was twelve (page 10). Eli is also a very stone cold and abrasive guy, taking out his frustrations on his younger sister, Terese. In one of the many instances, they were playing basketball together and the way he described her and her movements and his tone of voice when talking to her was so unecessaryily harsh …show more content…

For the six years that him and his family have been in the Compound, he has not touched anyone- not even a hug for his own mother (page 24). Even though they are now in a closer proximity to eachother, Eli makes no effort to talk to his family and purposely avoids them at all costs. At one part of the story, he was having a conversation with his mom, and he said that that was the longest he'd talked to his mom in all of their time there (page 75). Personally, I'm very emotional, and I wear those emotions right on my sleeve, so I wouldn't be able to keep up an act of not caring about anything. Also, I think that Eli should make at least some effort to talk to his family. It doesn't even have to be with his whole family, because, honestly, I'm afraid of his dad, too. However, his mother seems to be an extremely caring, patient, and calm person, considering she hasn't snapped on anyone, yet, and actually put effort into Eli's birthday dinner (page 23-24). Hopefully, Eli learns to accept his emotions and not shut everyone out by the end of the

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An of the comparison rabbi Eliahu and His Son with Eli and His Father In the book, “Night” Rabbi Eliahu loved his father just as Eli love his father. No matter what was happening, their relationship’s were really strong. Their relationships weren 't that similar. Each father and son had their own struggles.

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Eli and his father just go with the flow and get all their information from others who have been there awhile. Of course they want to escape and end the disaster, but they instead let it run its course and

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She never though that his dad could be such a bad person, when he acts all innocent and like the loving father everybody wants. Because of this, Eli is able to get his mom to turn against his dad and help

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Rabbi Eliahu only cared about finding his son, he didn't care if was cold, or tired. He searched through other people's dead bodies just to find his family. There is the second example that Elie put into his writing to prove that family is important to keep in a crisis. The theme was represented throughout the story by Elie’s mother and sister

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Elie had the perseverance to keep functioning even after encountering something so terrible. Losing his family was only one one of the barriers he had to overcome. Without a family, it made the experience a

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In Night, family impacts Elie Wiesel through his mental strength. When Elie's

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Eli fixates on this concept and, after spending time around his dad, works towards becoming the good man he had always hoped to be. Upon getting to know his dad, Eli wasn’t impressed, despite August staying resolute in the fact that he was good. It wasn’t until later when he really took on the paternal role in their lives that Eli even considers forgiving him and participates in his attempts to bond, knowing

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All throughout the novel, we see different viewpoints of family and its importance. The most obvious of these viewpoints is the one of Elie and his father. They show a strong connection and sense of what family is. The two stick together through the

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Early on in the book, Eli actively avoids becoming one of them, but he struggles with this as Night goes on. He starts to have brutish thoughts as he sees another son abandon his father for the sake of survival, but quickly decides not to. However, Eli’s morality finally breaks with his father’s death. Although on the surface, Eli feels grief and wishes that his father could still be alive, within himself, Eli finds a feeling of relief, as if a burden had been lifted from him. This shows that the longer Eli spent in the concentration camp, the weaker his moral sense became.

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This is important to the book as a whole because it connects to the theme of optimism. The change is apparent when life isn’t going in Eli’s favor, and the life of his father is taken away from him. Deep inside he feels a sign of relief but guilt at the same time. Eli spends a lot of time praying showing that he is religious.

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It goes without saying Elie was very strong. The mental and physical resilience it would have taken to come back from that experience, to go on and publish books and do interviews is unimaginable. If Elie wasn’t empathetic, he wouldn't have kept his father alive as long as he did, and he himself may not have been around to share his experience. If Elie wasn't resilient, he wouldn't have been able to constantly recount his experiences to the world. He could have simply holed himself up and hid from the world, a thought that would have no doubt been tempting.

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Eli’s father often puts himself and the family first before Eli. Throughout the essay, his father starts to become deathly ill, and Eli cares and attends to him. This is one of the family bonds in the novel. “My father’s presence was the only thing that stopped me. He was running next to me, out of breath, out of strength, desperate.

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Elie an observant twelve-year-old, the only son of Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel, leads readers deep into the undeniable torture that he and his father endured. Throughout the novel, Elie 's father remained engulfed with the delusion that the abuse his people had endured was all for the greater good. After being seperated from his mother and sister 's for some time. Elie began to wonder where they

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and exactly what he has grown up doing and reading. “Eli was enabled to participate in ways similar to his brothers’ and sisters’, making him a reader like them” (Fishman 240). Fishman goes into detail about Eli Jr. and the way his world has portrayed reading to him. But yet again, her focus shifts after this. She puts the reader in an Amish school setting and describes the events going on.

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When Eli’s parents find out that Eli has not been accepted into Whitehill, the headmaster has helped her realize that maybe Eli, despite being a Remenzel, is not suited for Whitehill.. It is at this time that Eli opens up and expresses his feelings to his father for trying to get him into Whitehill. This allows Eli to open up and express his feelings comfortably. We see this when Eli expresses his feelings of anger at his father for trying to get him into Whitehill. At this point he is recognized as an individual, he is ultimately able to mature through his new ability to express himself without being intimidated.

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