Examples Of Relationship In Night By Elie Wiesel

Joyce Myers once said “We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.” In Night, if Elizer and his father encouraged each other and helped each other out, maybe their relationship could have been better. Their relationship wasn't bad, but it was not good. Their relationship struggled because the Holocaust was going on, and they were worried and struggling with that. Now that Elizer's father is dead, they both have more freedom in many different ways. At the beginning of Night Eliezer and his father's relationship was pretty distant, Eliezer was in his own world and more into studies and such. Once Eliezer and his father were thrown into the Holocaust, Eliezer starts to become a

He was more concerned with others than his family.” (Wiesel 14) In the beginning his father did not care so much about family, and was more concerned about other things, this made Eliezer feel alone because his father did not care. They did not speak to each other that often, and his father cared more about the community and his surroundings. Eliezer’s father never wanted to study the cabbala with Eliezer because he was too young, and he thought it was too complex for his age. As they move camp to camp they become each other's anchor to some extent, they are suffering together and going through the death of Shlomo and his younger sister, they have had to deal with hunger and fear. Eliezer and his father got a closer connection “He did not want to see the burning of his own son” (Wiesel 42). When they arrive at Auschwitz, the loss of their family puts a big effect on Eliezer's father since it is just him and Eliezer now. Him saying this shows that if he saw the burning of his own son it would affect him, because he cares about his son and it would make him sad. This shows how their relationship from here gets stronger than how it was in the beginning, because they now only have each