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Eliahu's Relationship In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

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Unlike the ones who surround him, Eliezer escaped the fate of turning into an animal and is shown in his relationship with his father when the prisoners are sent to run and he doesn’t leave his father like Rabbi Eliahu’s son, when he runs after his father as he is sent to the left during selection, and when he gives his father his rations of coffee and soup because he is not given anything. In the book Night, prisoners are evacuated from their prisons and sent by foot to other prisons due to the Russians who were going to liberate the prisoners. During this they have to run the whole way so the Nazis can keep their prisoners, many prisoners start to fall behind because of the distance and their bodies. A Rabbi ends up to be one of these prisoners who starts to fall behind and when they get to the other prison he looks for his son. Eliezer remembers his son running next to him and even going ahead as his father falls behind so Eliezer realizes that his son had left him. He even starts to pray, “Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu’s son has done.” (Wiesel, 91) This shows that even as the other people have started to give …show more content…

The selection chooses the stronger or better looking prisoners and when you’re chosen to stay alive, you go to the right. However if you look weak or sick they send you to the left where you’re sent to death. During the selection, Eliezer is sent to the right and his father is sent to the left he “ran after him.” (Wiesel, 96) He is shot at but isn’t killed because when he runs after his father, a crowd forms and so they switch to the right side before anyone notices. This is a choice made only if you had your humanity left in you because were there not a crowd to form, Eliezer would’ve gotten shot and killed by the officers during the selection. This shows he’s still sticking to his morals and taking care of his

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I’ll watch over you and you’ll watch over me... we’ll look after each other(pg.89).” This quote shows that Elie has never said this to his father. Now that they are in a possibility of death, they need to take care of each other. Also, the story of Rabbi Eliahou's son leaving him because he was too weak made his son leave his father.

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