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 …show more content…
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 …show more content…
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
Even though Wiesel did not die, I can't help feeling more sorry for him. I try to imagine something as agonizing but I can not. I think Wiesel wrote this quote to show how the rapid deaths finally got to him. Death was such a big part of his life at this time.
On the march to Buchenwald, the prisoners stop at a town along the way. There, Shlomo watches Wiesel rest, making sure that Wiesel does not sleep too long and die. Wiesel describes the toll that Shlomo’s actions take on Shlomo. He writes, “When I woke up, a frigid hand was tapping my cheeks. I tried to open my eyes: it was my father.
Mr.Wiesel wanted to survive the Holocaust with his family, but they were separated and he was luckily left with Elie and they stayed alive for a long time during the Holocaust, so through the years Mr.Wiesel survived a long time for the reason of his son and wanting to survive the genocide with his family, then they went through some life threatening events but they were still fighting to survive. The author wrote and stated “My father swallowed my ration” (Wiesel 50). Based on this, I can infer that Elie was helping Mr.Wiesel build up strength by feeding him his ration, also wanted his father to eat his rations for the sake of not wanting to lose his father. In the same way, Mr.Wiesel would have done the same thing and fed Elie his rations.
He was not moving. Suddenly, the evidence overwhelmed me: there was no longer any reason to live, any reason to fight.” This quote helps display Wiesel’s strong bond and love for his father. When Wiesel believes his father has passed, straightaway he feels vanquished and no longer wants to endure life without
You see things from his point of view and you feel his struggles, ache for him when he loses his family, and although you can’t relate exactly to what he went through, everyone can still find a small part in their life when everything was too much to handle; the death of a loved one, being bullied, or even racism. Elie Wiesel is such a strong and courageous person and, from reading this book, he has become one of my role models. He took care of his father the whole time, determined to never be separated from him, even though he would have benefited from losing him. Wiesel kept his family at heart, even during the hardest times. He never gave up on his family of himself, fighting each day to continue
In Night, Elie has a conversation with his father. His father says “Did you eat?” Wiesel’s response was, “No.” His father then asked, ”Why?” Wiesel told his father, “They didn’t give us anything…
Norman Cousins once said, “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” The author of Night, Eliezer Wiesel, was a young boy when he was taken to Auschwitz. He lost his parents and his youngest sister. He lost everything he cared about and, perhaps the most overwhelming, his identity.
The repetition of the parallel events in the memoire also helps trace Wiesel’s changes throughout the course of his imprisonment at the concentration camps. For example, when Rabbi Eliahou is looking for his son after the 42-mile march, Wiesel realizes that during the run, the Rabbi’s son had intentionally run near the front of the pick after seeing his father stagger behind. Understanding that the son had been trying rid himself of his father whom he thought to be a “burden,” Wiesel prays to God to give him the resolve to never think about abandoning his own father (87). However, later on, when his father is struck with dysentery and is taken away on January 29 at the verge of death, Wiesel thinks to himself, “And, in the depths of my being,
If he didn’t obey he most likely would’ve been killed. It takes strength to not talk back to someone who took everything from you. Another reason is, Wiesel is being moved from camp to camp because the Allies are getting closer to their original camp. He was hurt in the hospital, and didn’t know if he should move on with the rest of the camp or stay behind in the hospital to be supposedly killed. Wiesel and his father had to make a big decision.
Throughout the memoir, Wiesel talks about how disgusted he is with how the conditions he and the rest of the prisoners are in have destroyed family bonds and have made everyone selfish and destroyed any compassion they’ve had for each other. He believes that the family bond should be strong and constant, like the bond he has with his father. He continuously explains how he felt like his father depended on him, and that it was his own responsibility to care for his father as much as he could by staying alive as long as possible. On page 86 while talking about how his father was the only reason he wouldn’t let himself die, he says, “ I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me?
Mr. Wiesel and father were able to escape the crematoria but were often terrorized. Could you imagine living in a world where you are harassed just for being who you are? How about the children who grow up learning what their parents teach them and really do not know any better; for example in the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem lived in a world filled with prejudice and people seeking revenge. Scout and Jem Finch were one of the lucky ones. Their father, Atticus, was a lawyer, and one of the fairest there was.
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.
To begin with, Wiesel could not believe what was happening. He didn’t believe how cruel the Germans were. Wiesel was living a nightmare and couldn’t escape it. For instance, Wiesel stated, “I pinched myself; was I still alive? Was I awake?
Annotated Bibliography Estess, Ted L. “The Holocaust Poisoned Eliezer’s Relationships.” Readings on Night, compiled by The Greenhaven Press, San Diego, Greenhaven Press Inc, 2000, pp. 94-97. Excerpt originally published in Elie Wiesel, Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1980. “The Holocaust Poisoned Eliezer’s Relationships” primarily focuses on one of the main points of Night, the destruction of Wiesel’s primary relationships due to life in the concentration camps.
Wiesel addresses not only his own situation, but also the effect survival had inwards other fathers and sons in the camp. The memoir