Night By Elie Wiesel

In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel describes his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German Concentration camps. In the novel, Wiesel writes about the Holocaust in a way that it can't be forgotten. Between 1933-1945 European Jews were the vicitims of a genocide known as the holocaust. Night tells the story of a young Jewish child who endured the misery of the concentration camps ran by the Nazi's, and how this experience changed him forever, This experience changed Elie Wiesel because he endured countless and numerous beatings at the hands of Nazi forces, suffers starvation, and witnesses his own father's death before his very eyes. These events that Elie endures throughout the holocaust transforms his life, his thinking and

He goes through a chain of problems that make him question God and his deliberative role. Some problems he goes through that make him question God are when he witnesses the horrific events he experienced during the holocaust. "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 a protest against him" (69). Elie Wiesel "turned '' his back against God because he refused to accept God's silence, which implied that God was not helping him. As a result, Elie Wiesel felt as though God had abandoned him. After spending several months at Auschwitz, Elie and his father were forced to witness the hanging of a small child. Witnessing the lifeless body of the small child dangling for30 minutes caused Elie to question God's genuine existence. "Behind me I heard the same man asking: For God's sake, where is God? And from within me, I heard a voice answer: "Where is he?.." Wiesel believes that God wasn't present when he needed him and wondered where he

It does not portray a positive relationship between a father and son. "He began beating him with an iron bar.. I had watched it all happening without moving.. I felt anger at the moment, It was not directed at the Kapo but at my father. Why couldn't he have avoided Idek's wrath?"(54). Elie was not angry at Idek the Kapo while beating his father; he was angry with his father for not protecting himself. At times the reader can see how Elie's relationship with his father significantly improves. They form a tight bond and encourage one another while they go through difficult moments in camp. "Come father. It's better there. You'll be able to lie down. We'll take turns. I'll watch over you and you'll watch over me. We won't let each other fall asleep." This describes the other side of Elie's relationship with his father. In addition to watching out for one another to prevent falling asleep. As you can see Wiesel and his father were crucial to each other for their