The story of Night covers the holocaust from the view of Eli Whitney. He shares his experiences along with the details of his past. The story begins in Transylvania, where he grew up. He covers the misery and abuse that all the Jews, his father, and himself went through. Some of the themes he wrote about are survival, family, and death. To begin, Eli and his father were heavily abused by the Germans. They had to survive the test of time and abuse. The pain and suffering they went through was very intense, it was the most intense mass killing in history. “What can we expect? It's war....” (pg. 4). You could say they were doomed from the start. Now, in the beginning of the novel, Eli and his father were not that close. Eli’s father often puts himself and the family first before Eli. Throughout the essay, his father starts to become deathly ill, and Eli cares and attends to him. This is one of the family bonds in the novel. “My father’s presence was the only thing that stopped me. He was running next to me, out of breath, out of strength, desperate. I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his sole support.” (pg. 87). …show more content…
This is due to the harsh conditions in the camps, along with him not accepting his rations. Eli told him he should be eating, but his father insisted that Eli should take them instead. “I woke up at dawn on January 29. On my father's cot there lay another sick person. They must have taken him away before daybreak and taken him to the crematorium. Perhaps he was still breathing.… No prayers were said over his tomb. No candle lit in his memory. His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered. I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!” (pg.