“As for me, I was thinking not about death, but about not wanting to be separated from my father” Elie’s Father was really important to him because it was the last of family Elie had left. Elie did not want to remain alone in the Concentration Camps, for his father was his motivation to stay alive.
The book Night by Elie Wiesel is about a kid who goes through the Holocaust at a young age, the author Is that boy, Elie was around 14 years old when the Germans took him and his home town (All jews) to Concentration camps. Elie’s Mother and his little sister were taken away and were separated, Elie was left together with his Father in the Concentration Camps.
Elie’s Father impacted Elie’s life greatly because his father was known for being a leader so when the S.S Officers brought his father down it really impacted him and the way he saw the world, “I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday I would have dug my nails into this criminal’s flesh. Had I changed that much? So fast? Remorse began to gnaw at me” The Concentration Camps Did change Elie and the way he reacted to certain things like his father getting hit.
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“I tightened my grip on my father’s hand, the old familiar fear:not to lose him” knowing that the Jews were in front of a chimney,it reminded Elie how much it meant to him not to lose his