Over time the bond the one shares with a loved one can undergo many tribulations that can reveal the extents of its love. It is a relationship that can withstand so much - especially between a young Jewish boy and his father during the Holocaust - in which Elie Weitzel portrays in his novel "Night”. Prior to being placed in Auschwitz, 15-year-old Elie and his father did not have a close relationship. Since Elie often spending his time studying the Tanakh and his father often tended to community matters, both had little connection with each other. However, once they both placed within a Nazi death camp, the two become inseparable.Nevertheless, throughout the novel, the bond formed as father and son that begins as a necessity for comfort slowly becomes a burden as …show more content…
Thus causing Elie to be determined to keep his father by his side at all costs. This is shown once the women and men were separated and Elie is only left with his father, the first thing he thinks as, “ [His] hand Palomino 2 shifted on [his] father’s arm. [He] had one thought - not to lose him. Not to be left alone” (Wiesel 37). Physically holding onto his father for a sense of security demonstrates the formation of a strong bond that didn't exist prior to entering the camp. Elie is depending on his father to keep him safe from an unfamiliar place that evokes the only piece of familiarity he has- his father. (transition) “I took a half a step forward. I wanted to see first where they were sending my father. If he went to the right, I would go after him” (Wiesel