The author of Night, Elie Wiesel, was a Jewish immigrant from Sighet, Transylvania, who had survived during the Holocaust by the grace of god and with the encouragement from his father. Earlier in the story Elie goes to explain how he and his father did not have the greatest relationship. His father was a cultured man and came off as unsentimental. “He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (4). As a result of German troops invading his country, Elie and his family found themselves being deported to concentration camps. It was here where Elie and his father found a new bond for one another in the instances of relying on one another for survival. When one of the two were feeling as if life were coming to an end the other was there to strengthen and push him …show more content…
When starvation started to settle amongst one of them the other would kindle share their ration of food for nutriment. “Please sir, … I’d like to be near my father” (50). The words of Elie when he was told he and his father were to be separated and work in different areas. Another occasion, Elie’s concentration camp begins to evacuate after being bombed by the Red Army, the first thing he does is not to escape death, but to find his father. “As for me. I was not thinking about death, but about not wanting to be separated from my father. We had already suffered so much, endured so much together. This was not the moment to be separate” (82). Last, Elie found himself exhausted after running for hours through harsh weather conditions as their camp was evacuated without notice. He had no power to move on. He starts to nod off into a death sleep when the voice of his father awakens him. “Don’t let yourself be overcome by sleep, Eliezer. It’s dangerous to fall asleep in snow. One falls asleep forever. Come, my son, come… Get up”