Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

Strong bonds built upon trust and dependability can last a lifetime, especially through strenuous moments when the integrity of a bond is the only thing that can be counted on to get through those situations. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he writes about the time of his life spent in the concentration camps, while detailingexplaining the experiences and struggles that he went through. Yet, not everything during that period was completely unbearable for Wiesel. When Wiesel arrived at the first camp, Birkenau, the fear instilled in him and the loneliness he would feel have felt forced him to form a stronger attachment to his father. This dependence towards his father gave Wiesel a reason to keep on living. In turn, his father was able to support

They both look out for, stick with, and confide in one another. For example, when Wiesel’s father became sick, he looked almost dead as he was sleeping. One man told the others who were throwing corpses out of the train to take his father out as well. Wiesel, once indifferent to all the other bodies being thrown out, now states, “I woke from my apathy just at the moment when two men came up to my father. I threw myself on top of his body. He was cold. I slapped him. I rubbed his hands, crying” (94). Wiesel could have just celebrated that there was going to be more room, but instead he desperately attempts to wake up his father to prove he is still alive. Wiesel’s father also looks out for Wiesel and tries to help him in any way he can. When Wiesel was sleeping in the wagon from Buna he explains, “I woke up suddenly and felt two hands on my throat, trying to strangle me. I just had time to shout, ‘Father!’ Nothing but this word. I felt myself suffocating. But my father had woken up and seized my attacker” (96). Even though his father had to call over Meir Katz to get rid of the attacker, he still played a large part. Without Chlomo caring about his son so much, Wiesel would have most likely died. If Wiesel would have let his father be thrown out of the train a few days beforehand, Mr. Wiesel would not

A time when Wiesel had to pay for his father's mistake was when Franek wanted to get Wiesel’s golden crown. If Wiesel had severed ties with his father and not have confided in him, things would have gone a lot differently. Wiesel would not have had to experience the emotional pain of seeing his father beaten for marching incorrectly, nor would he have had to feel responsible for him afterwards and attempt to teach him for two weeks, only for his effort to be in vain. In the end, Wiesel had to give up his own ration of bread to Franek because of the waiting he had to go through. Along with the bread, he still had to give up his golden crown, which is completely unfair. Towards the end of the memoir, Wiesel’s father falls ill with dysentery. Even though Wiesel looks out for his father until the very end, it may have been more beneficial to forget about him and move on. Afterall, the sum of what Wiesel did from that point on was struggle to keep his father alive by placating him and his wants. He was also requesting help from any doctor he could find, all while having to deal with others constantly harming his father and bringing Wiesel more emotional pain. Deep inside, Weisel knew his father was going to die; he even recognizes the part of him that knew it would have been better to leave his father. After his