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Examples Of Father Son Relationships In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Many examples of father-son relationships are shown throughout the book. Each example plays a crucial role in how the tale unfolds. Night shows a variety of father-son relationships, but only the relationship between Wiesel and his father was stable and ended on good terms. An example of one of the father-son relationships that were unstable and ended poorly was Rabbi Eliahou and his son. This is illustrated when Wiesel says, “[Rabbi Eliahou’s son] had felt his father growing weaker and, believing that the end was near, had thought by the separation to free himself of a burden…”(Wiesel 91). This passage is written shortly after the last prisoners had survived the death marches. Rabbi Eliahou has lost track of his son and has no idea what happened
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