This essay is devoted to a theme of relations between fathers and children and their transformation under extreme circumstances. Eliezer Wiesel, a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and a holocaust survivor, wrote the book “Night”. The book tells about the experiences in the concentration camp in Auschwitz and the relationship between Elie and his father before the holocaust and when they were in the concentration camp. The essay aims to analyze the transformation of their relationship. At the beginning of the Memoir Night Elie and his father’s relationship is not very good. It does not reflect a healthy relationship between a father and a son. Elie describes his father as a cultured man, unsentimental, …show more content…
Elie protects and helps his father as well as he does not sacrifice him for his own survival as so many sons have done to their fathers. However as days pass by, he starts to feel some resentment toward his father especially when he is unable to protect himself from the bestiality of the SS instead of pitying him. In addition to that, toward the end of their way to Buchenwald his father becomes weak and cannot move, maybe because of fatigue or loss of hope. He leaves his father and sleeps deeply, when he wakes up, he could not find him and searches for him half-heartedly because a thought tells him maybe he could increase his chance of survival if he was alone. Fortunately, he finds him, ”Father! I’ve been looking for you so long…Where were you? Did you sleep? How are you feeling?” (p.106). He still cares about his father, and guilt eats him for his behavior, especially when he considers eating the food instead of sharing it with his father. Eliezer is slowly becoming estranged from his father due to the harsh situation but he stands by his father, who suffers from dysentery. Finally, his father passes on, and he feels a sign of relief and does not cry. However, the experience at the camp and their deep concern for one another develops overtime helps them to survive, and not to fall into the temptation of self preservation that makes a son turn against his father and kill
Elie and himself are becoming more apart as a result of his lack of involvement. Because Elie's father never engages with him, their relationship suffers and they are not exceptionally close. In conclusion, their distant relationship is caused by Elie’s father not spending enough time with
Elie and his father relationship changes as both of them go through more hardships. At the end Elie began to think that his father was sort of a burden and he feels guilty for thinking this of his father. Elie looks up to his father in the beginning of the book because his father is a respected member of the Jewish community. Elie’s father refused to be his mentor due to the fact that he did not agree with his decision to study mysticism.
Father son bonds are arguably the most important and influential things on a child’s life. In Night by Elie Wiesel Eliezer’s father harms his chances of surviving. Eliezer and his father get put into a concentration camp. There surviving is hard enough, let alone caring for and giving your food to your father when it should be the other way around. Although some would argue that eliezer’s father helps him through the camp, his father ultimately weighs him down and harms eliezer’s chance of survival through him becoming increasingly frail and weak, his health deteriorating further, and his becoming increaingly dependant on Eliezer for survival.
To Elie, his father is his only source of moral support, motivation, and trust. Until the very end, the kinship between Elie and his father allows them to stand strong together in all circumstances. As a result, familial ties are essential for Elie
The father and son bond is significant to life. Fathers are responsible for teaching their children valuable life lessons and supporting them through the toughest times. In Eli Weisel’s Night, Eliezer, the main character who portrays the author's younger version of himself, is sent through concentration camps alongside his father. In some of the most brutal and torturest conditions of Auschwitz one of the deadliest camps, the pair depend on each other for survival. The bond between Eliezer and his father is crucial to their survival in Auschwitz.
As his father becomes weak, Eliezer begins to feel his father as a burden limiting his own chances of survival. Unlike other sons in the concentration camps who ignore their fathers, Eliezer never leaves his father. He nurses his him when he is ill, defends him against bullies, and struggles to keep him alive. Most of the time, Eliezer isn’t thinking of leaving his father, but of how to stop from losing him. Eliezer doesn’t tell us about his last experiences because to him, nothing mattered once his father had passed away.
At this time Eliezer him self had become the “Patriarch” and still reassured his father that he would not die. Around this time his father had contracted dysentery, limiting his ability to work and move about. Throughout this ordeal Eliezer and his father help each other survive by means of mutual support and concern. I believe by this time Eliezer was so mentally abused he didn’t know what he believed in any more. As Eliezers father grows weaker from dysentery, he helps his father while at the same time questioning his own beliefs about family.
Furthermore, Elie’s relationship with his father worsened as they spent more time at the concentration camp. In this scene, Elie’s father is extremely sick after having been in the concentration camp for a long time. After his father is gone in the morning and assumed to have been sent to the furnace because of his poor condition, Elie expresses to the reader how he did not necessarily feel sad after his father got sick and died. While explaining his emotions surrounding his fathers death,
Despite talking about a significant historical landmark for the Jewish people and the entire world, Night takes a memoir-like form and focuses on the life of Eliezer. Variations in the real life of the author and the main protagonist in the events of the writing exist. However, the differences are either too minimal or analogous to each other such that any reader who has a clue about the writer’s experiences will discern the personal approach Wiesel Elie takes as he produces the book. In other words, there are a number of connections, which call for a consideration of a subjective nature of the delivery of contents of the events of the Holocaust, albeit at a smaller niche. Speaking about the relationship between Eliezer and his father, Chlomo
Elie grew up without the same bond that many have with their fathers, and this resulted in him not being very close to his
Eliezer commits to caring for his father and their unlikely survival, often hurting his chances of survival
When they first arrived at Auschwitz Elie and his father looked to each other for support and survival, Sometimes Elie’s father being the only thing keeping him alive. In their old community Elie’s father was a strong-willed and respected community leader, as the book went on you could see how the roles were becoming reversed he was becoming weaker and more reliant on Elie to take care of him. Their father son bond had always been strong and only grew stronger with the things they had to endure. “My God, Lord of the Universe, give me strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahou’s son has done” Elie was disgusted when he saw Rabbi Eliahou’s son abandon his father to help improve his chances of his survival he prayed he’d never do such a thing, but as his father becoming progressively more reliant on Elie he started to see his father as more of a burden than anything else.
Near the beginning of the novel, Elie wanted to be in the same camp with his father more than anything else. The work given to both his father and himself was bearable, but as time passed by, “. . . his father was getting weaker” (107). The weaker Elie’s father got, the more sacrifices Elie made. After realizing the many treatments Elie was giving his father compared to himself, each additional sacrifice made Elie feel as if his “. . .
In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel narrates the legendary tale of what happened to him and his father during the Holocaust. In the introduction, Wiesel talks about how his village in Seghet was never worried about the war until it was too late. Wiesel’s village received advanced notice of the Germans, but the whole village ignored it. Throughout the entire account, Wiesel has many traits that are key to his survival in the concertation camps.
Eliezer’s relationship with his father contrast with other father-son relationships because they