Elzer's Relationship With His Father In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

Elie's relationship with his father in the beginning was distant, in the middle he was closer to his father, and by the end it was very deep and tied with their lives.Elie Wiesel in lived the small town of Signet, Transylivannia (current day Hungary). His father ,Shlomo, was a well respected man in the Signet community, but he wasn't very close with his family or with his only son Elie. Wisel recalls about his father's relationships, "My father was a cultured, rather unsentimental man. There was never any display of emotion, even at home. The Jewish community in Signet hald him in the highest esteem." (Wiesel,pg 1)It appears Elie never had a father figure in his life and replaced it with other parts of his life like religion. Within religion

But I wanted to come back to warn you. Only no one is listening to me ..." (Wiesel,pg 7) It was only when Elie entered Aushwitz ,and he and his father were forced together that they developed a meaningful relationship. It existed for simple existing, to keep alive what's left of their family.When the S.S starting seperating gender, his father knew what will happen "I had not had time to think, but already I felt the pressure of my father's hand: we were alone." (Wiesel,22) Throughout the book, Elie is seen trying to keep close to his father and never losing him. Sometimes it leads him to trouble like when Elie when Idek beats his father until he's forced to give him his gold crown. His father also gets into trouble and tries to support his son, when he is about to enter second selection he gives his son things to survive on his on. He quickly tells him "Look take this knife" he said to me. "I don't need it any longer. It might be useful to you. And take this spoon as well. Don't sell them. Quickly! Go on. Take what I'm giving you!"(Wiesel, 55) This shows in the camp while most of the story shows Elie protecting his father and he is unable to stand on his own.

In the beginning he thought that since God only created good things, he believed humanity was naturally good and anything else was a bad apperation. When he meets the Germans, which he was told by Moshe the Beadle to avoid, they were nice people that looked like they weren't going to cause harm.Eliezer recounts, “Our first impressions of the Germans were most reassuring. . . . Their attitude toward their hosts was distant, but polite.” Most of the Holocaust was very lost to the Signet people even as events like ghettos and stars were coming about, people didn't see the meaning behind those concepts. "Anguish. German Soldiers - with their steel helmets and their death's-head emblem. Still, our first impressions of the Germans were rather reassuring." (Wiesel,9) It is only when the people finally reach the concentration camps they see finally the true concept of the Holocaust. The father, the first to figure it out, said "Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possbile, even these crematories" (Weisel,24) Night also shows what cruelity does to people, evil begats more evil. On the train to Buchenwald, a father dies becuase his son wanted his bread even when the father wanted to share. Then the boy died when otheres tried to steal from him. Finally a man says to Elie about how to survive the camps, the Kapo said “Here, every man