Elie's Relationship With His Father Analysis

Elie’s Relationship With His Father and How It Changed
When you and your family are all forced into a death camp, separated, and treated as subhuman, you tend to protect the only ones you love enough to risk your life for. In the camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, one teenager and his father find themselves in exactly that dilemma, starving and with only each other to rely on. Elie Wiesel, a child thrown into these camps with his father, miraculously survived and went on to write about his experiences and struggles, most notably in his memoir Night. This book shows what really happened behind the scenes of Nazi Germany during World War 2, things that would not be revealed for years to come. And more specifically, it shows how Elie's relationships to his father and to the
When Elie and his dad were sent to the camps together, we started seeing Elie being more concerned with his dad when he said: “I glanced over at me dad. How changed he looked! His eyes were veiled. I wanted to tell him something, but I didn’t know what” (37, Wiesel). When Elie saw this he started noticing how much more his father was beginning to change throughout their stay at the concentration camps. Later on as the book goes on their relationship got stronger and therefore they took better care of one another. When the Jews were forced to march Elie’s father would have a very hard time marching which caused him to be beaten multiple times. Elie could not tolerate his own flesh and blood getting beat so he took matters into his own hands and decided to try to teach his father how to march: “I decided to give my father marching lessons in marching step, in keeping time. We began practicing in front of our block. I would command: ‘left, right!’ and my father would try” (55, Wiesel). Even though Elie tried his best to help his father, he didn’t have much success; but they stayed together until the