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Family In Night By Elie Wiesel

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In the book Night I believe that family is the highest priority to Elie. His father is very important to him and a great motivator to stay alive and keep trying. The book Night is set in a small town in WW2 the main characters are Elie and his father. They are both jews and are soon taken to a concentration camp and the book is about them surviving the camps they go to. Elie’s father is a big motivator for Elie, but in the end of the book Elie’s father dies. He said in the book after his father all he cared about was his bread that he got. “Please sir i’d like to be near my father.”(Wiesel 50) this quote shows how family is important to Elie, later in the book Elie traded food to be in the same bunk as his father. This shows how much family
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When starvation started to settle amongst one of them the other would kindle share their ration of food for nutriment. “Please sir, … I’d like to be near my father” (50). The words of Elie when he was told he and his father were to be separated and work in different areas. Another occasion, Elie’s concentration camp begins to evacuate after being bombed by the Red Army, the first thing he does is not to escape death, but to find his father. “As for me.

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