Love Between Father And Son In Elie Wiesel's Night

The love between a father and his son is very prevalent throughout Night, Elie does anything in his power to be with his father, his only family left. When they arrived at their Kommandos, he requested to be placed near his father in the workroom when he was in no position to be making demands, especially in a concentration camp. His bond with his father grows throughout this terrible situation. When is father told him to disobey Yom Kippur and not fast, he did not fast. When his father told him to run as fast as he could during selection he obeyed even though he knew his father would not pass. Although he was reluctant, he obeyed his father and took the spoon and knife as a sort of inheritance when the two were being separated. Elie ran with

On page 66, Elie writes, “What are You, my God? I thought angrily. How do You compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance? What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery? Why do you go on troubling these poor people's wounded minds, their ailing bodies.” This shows that he feels as though he has been betrayed by his God, the opposite of how he felt at the beginning of the

Later on in the book, when Yom Kippur came around, the time for fasting came again but Elie did not participate this time. On page 69, Wiesel writes “I did not fast. First of all, to please my father who had forbidden me to do so. And then, there was no longer any reason for me to fast. I no longer accepted God's silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him.” This shows his obedience towards his father, his rebellion towards God, and his character change from the beginning of the book up until this