The author of Night, Elie Wiesel wrote his novel to inform his readers of the gruesome experiences that he witnessed during the Holocaust. Throughout his novel, Wiesel reenacted many different events that took place to illustrate the main themes of this novel and exhibit his emotions. During the course of the novel, the reader is witnessing Elie's personal experiences in the Holocaust, seeing not only what he had to go through, but how he had felt while it was taking place. In Night, Elie Wiesel includes the struggle between a father and his son. While Elie spent his life in the concentration camps, he not only had to ensure his own safety, but his father’s too.
Before the Nazis had came and invaded their community, Elie and his father had a rather close bond. The most important things in Wiesel’s life had been faith, family, and religion. “Eliezer’s relationship with his father throughout the book made him need to act like an adult. He knew that in order to protect his father, he had to mature. In the book, he called himself Eliezer instead of Elie, in an attempt to retain his childhood spirit” (Sanderson). When Elie and his father had been taken by the
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Although, he depicts his efforts toward adulthood meaningless. In the novel, Elie had to act like an adult while his father was slowly slipping away” (Sanderson). Towards the end of the novel, Elie’s father had passed. For Elie this was not as much as a shock as he had anticipated. He almost felt like he was mentally and physically prepared for it. “After Elie’s father died he almost felt like a burden was lifted off his chest and he could become a child again. No longer did Elie have to worry about taking care of his father, he now had the ability to fully take care of himself. The camp was not a place for someone to have to make the transition between child to adult. After his dad died, Elie was able to be finally free again”