Night Essay When the wind blows which way does life go, left or right? Left would be with the way of the people, and right would be an unknown path. In the novel Night Elie, the narrator, goes through the traumatic experience of the Holocaust. Throughout this experience he encounters the expanding breakdown of his father, and Elie has to decide if he wants to go left or right. Most authors purposely educate their readers about a certain subject; Wiesel, the author of Night, teaches that during the hardships of time not to be corrupted by others. Wiesel teaches this lesson through the relationship with Elie and his father, that most boys at that time had given up on. In the beginning of the novel, after the Jews have been taken to the concentration camps, Elie and his father’s relationship became very close. Wiesel wrote, “He slapped my father…...I felt petrified….Remorse began to gnaw at me” (Wiesel, 39). Elie feels remorse for his father’s beatings; during this time most boys would not have cared that their fathers were beaten. During this time most Jews had an “every man for himself” kind of outlook on life. With this type of relationship Elie was not being corrupted by the Jews’ outlook on life. …show more content…
They began to feel as if there was no point in life, and wanted to die. Elie too began to feel as if there was no point to life, “Death….It stuck to me like glue”, but did not die because of the relationship he had with his father,”My father’s presence….stopped me”(Wiesel, 86). Elie did not die because his love for his father kept him from leaving his father alone during the great terrors of this time. At this point in the novel Elie’s father was not the most liked man, and was repeatedly beaten.With Elie and his father’s relationship being as strong as it was Elie’s life was not only saved, but his father’s motivation to keep his life, grew