NIGHT In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he said “The jews were ordered to get off and onto waiting trucks. The trucks headed toward a forest. There everybody was ordered to get out. They were forced to dig huge trenches. When they had finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began their theirs. Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as target for the machine guns”(Wiesel 6). This quote relates to becoming closer to loved ones and loss of faith because when they shoot the men, women, and children because it shows that u can die at any moment, so chairish your loved ones …show more content…
Every time his father is in trouble he does something to save his father. He would do anything to save his father, when he said “I woke from my apathy only when two men approached my father. I threw myself on his body. He was cold. I slapped him. I rubbed his hands, crying: Father! Father! Wake up. They’re going to throw you outside. His body remained inert. The two gravediggers had grabbed me by the neck. Leave him alone. Can’t you see that he’s dead? No! I yelled. He’s not dead! Not yet! And i started to hit him harder and harder. At last, my father half opened his eyes. They were glassy. He was breathing faintly. You see, I cried. The two men went away” (Wiesel 99). This is important because it shows that he would do anything for his father to live. He saved his father’s life because he is becoming closer to his only loved one he has left. His father is the remaining family member he has left so they grew closer over the years. When his father got sick he tried to help him, get him better. He said “I sat next to him, watching him; I no longer dared to believe that he could still elude Death. I did all i could to give him hope. All of a sudden, he sat up and placed his feverish lips against my ear: Eliezer.. I must tell you where I buried the gold and silver… in the cellar… You know… And he began talking, faster and faster, afraid of running out of