People say family is everything, but did Elie need his father to survive? In Night, Elie and his family were one of the many families forced to live in multiple ghettos and make the long journey to Auschwitz. Once Elie and his father made it through selection they found out that Elie’s mother and sister didn’t, forcing their last encounter to be when they were ripped apart from each other. Elie and his father ate the small portions of bread and soup they were given while forced to work. Everyday was the same.
Night Elie’s relationship with his father changed drastically throughout the book. In the beginning of the story Elie admires his father, looks up to him, treats him with the utmost respect, and always feels safe around him. In the book on page 20 Elie’s father offers Elie and his sister a chance to escape and flee to a safe shelter. Elie and his sister refuse because they want to stick together as a family, they do not want to part. They makes this decision because they feel safer with their parents then they do by themselves.
“And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: free at last!...” (Weisel 112). When the Jewish people of Sighet, Transylvania were first being transported to concentration camps, Elie and his father were separated from the rest of his family, never to see eachother again over the course of the book. Elie’s strained connection is exemplified when his father, his only family member remaining with him, dies. Instead of feeling depressed, or even the tiniest bit of sadness, Elie does not feel at all.
In ‘Night’, Elie and his father are placed in the concentration camp together and rely on each other's emotional support to survive. On page 86, Elie and other prisoners were running in the death marches. If they stopped running, they would simply be killed. Elie could not endure the pain as he quoted “The idea of dying, of ceasing to be me, began to fascinate me…. My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me”.
“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.
Perseverance is a theme evident throughout Elie Wiesel's Night, as the author's survival in the concentration camps is a testament to his unwavering determination. In chapter 7 of Night, Elie and his father are transferred to a new concentration camp, where they are forced to endure grueling labor and terrible living conditions. Despite their situation's physical and emotional tolls, Elie remains determined to survive and keep his father alive. " I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me?
This displays their relationship briefly, it shows how his father cared for him and how he saw how sad he was, but was still there for him. These moments happened often throughout the story, but each time their relationship grows stronger and stronger, helping them prevail through tough situations. Relationships are powerful, at the end of the book Elie’s father insisted Elie to stop helping him because he is too weak to move on and feels like he is dragging Elie down and lessening his chance for survival. His father was willing to give up his life to greater the chances for Elies survival, Elie explains; “There were no prayers at his grave. No candles were lit to his memory.
Out of the images Night, Fire and Death, the one that stands out the most has to be Night. Night, throughout the book, symbolizes Death and the loss of hope. Many of the most tragic events happens through the night. “On my father’s cot there lay another sick person. They must have taken him away before daybreak and taken him to the crematorium” (111).
In the novel Night, a non-fiction story about the Holocaust. As the book is non-fiction, Elie recalls events from his memory, through his story we see many times how a father and son bond can be a beneficiary to your survival. Elie Wiesel explores the importance of a father and son bond by highlighting different types of relationships between fathers and sons to reinforce how helpful a strong bond can be in difficult situations. Throughout Night, the bond between Elie and his father, Shlomo, serves as a lifeline in the face of unspeakable suffering. After hours of running through the snow, the Jews reached an abandoned factory where they were allowed to rest.
Victim of Isis are experiencing death, suffering, and with no hope in sight. But the horrific events was not happening in the middle east during present times, but during world war II in Germany. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel explains his experiences during the holocaust. Elie Wiesel wrote this book so he can inform people who weren’t there or didn’t know what happened to prevent this from happening again. Elie Wiesel assert this by show loss of faith, brutality and suffering Elie Wiesel, for a period of time of his life, experienced many things witnessing many deaths and malnourishment for years.
As he is dragged to the barbers, Elie demonstrates his lose of agency over his own existence, losing his former ability to choose what he does. Even though the Nazis try to strip the prisoners of their humanities removing all means of self expression, Elie’s father is still of utmost importance, as his father represents his childhood. In this frightening world in which lie feels little control, he clings to his father since he knows his father represents a source of . Even as Elie becomes a
Physical suffering is when a movie, show, or novel character experiences pain and discomfort due to an injury. In Night by Elie Wiesel, the reader can see how Elie experiences pain during his time in the Auschwitz concentration camp. The novel, states Elie and other Jewish prisoners are walking in the cold collecting stones, Elie tells the reader the physical pain that is coming from his right foot. “Around the middle of January, my right foot began to swell from the cold. I could not stand it.
The memoir Night explains how Elie and his family are originally separated and sorted by sex, age, profession, and physical capability. After being separated from his sister and mother, with only his father by his side, he is forced to go through the grueling process of camp admission, even after learning the horrific fates suffered by his sister and mother. ”Who knows what may have become of them - but we had little concern for their fate. We were incapable of thinking of anything at all... A barrel of petrol at the entrance..
As Elie and his fellow prisoners endure unimaginable suffering and hardship, they are forced to confront their own capacity for empathy and compassion. The dehumanization of the prisoners by their captors serves as a powerful indictment of the ways in which humans can lose their sense of empathy and compassion in the pursuit of power and control. Yet, even in the most dire circumstances, Elie finds moments of connection and solidarity with his fellow prisoners, reminding us of the importance of maintaining our humanity in the face of adversity. Another aspect of being human that is explored in “Night” is the struggle for survival. As Elie and his father fight to survive in the face of starvation, exhaustion and brutality, they are forced to confront their own mortality and the fragility of human life.
PBS, North Carolina, estimates that the average human makes 35,000 decisions a day. However, what if those decisions were the difference between living and dying? In Elie’s case, his every move is the difference between living and dying. Elie is a young Romanian Jew living in World War II. He shares the hardships and horrors he endures while in the ghetto and at Nazi concentration camps where the Jews are constantly alienated and treated terribly.
