“A dad is someone who wants to catch you before you fall but instead picks you up, brushes you off, and lets you try again”. So when Elie was working he would quit but Elie’s father won’t let him do that. His father would give him extra food and starve himself. And he showed Elie that being kind and strong for the ones who loves you. He showed Elie the importance of being strong and fighting during the Holocaust. Elie’s relationship with his father change from a distant one to a close one because of their experience in Auschwitz. By the end, Elie had a hard time taking care of his father and himself.
At the beginning of Night Elie’s relationship with his father is distant. For example Elie notes :“ My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his feeling not even within his family and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (Wiesel ). This shows the relationship of Elie and his father is distant because Elie’s father always working and he didn’t have time. Additionally Elie’s father was so into his work more than his own family. “The jewish community of sighet
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“ i am asking you take it, do as I ask you, my son. Time is running out. Do as your father asks you” (wiesel 74). Elie’s father didn’t want him to get hurt so Elie’s father told him to march if he didn’t he would had got hurt. This happen when Elie’s father got hurt. “ I am asking you… take it, do as I ask you, my jon. Time is running out. Do as your father asks you” (wiesel 74). “ I might have found something like free at last!” (wiesel 112). There were some times that Elie needed to look out for himself and not other. “ I did not weep and it pained me that I could not weep.” (wiesel 112). Maybe Elie was so tired taking care of his father that he did not have time to take care of