Examples Of Father Son Relationship In Night By Elie Wiesel
In life there are lots of hard things that people face but together they can get through
Elie Wiesel and his father struggled with survival during the Holocaust, but together made it as long as they could. He made it longer than his father and lived long enough to write this book. His father died few days before they were liberated. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel the author used many father son relationship scenarios. Elie and his father love each other and show that by caring for each other. One way they show father son relationship is elie puts his father before himself “I decided to give my father lessons in marching in step and keeping time” He took the time in helping his father instead of helping himself “ Elie’s relationship with his father became much closer than in the beginning of the story. During their time in the concentration camp they were separated from the rest of their family and only had each other. “My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me. I had no right to let myself die. …show more content…
Elie respected his father because he was an important member of his community, but his father wasn’t very supportive of his study goals. Elie wanted to learn Kabbalah but his father said he was too young for that and needed to understand basic studies before he did anything. Elie’s father wasn’t sentimental about anything unlike Elie, him and his father had a very professional relationship. Unil him and his father suffered together in the concentration camp. Even in the camps there were some times when Elie couldn’t do anything to help his father like when the soldier beat him Elie couldn’t do anything about it he just had to stand there and watch, because he didn’t wanna end up having the same thing happen to him. After being there for as long as they were they learned that they would have to work together to
Elie Wiesel and his father struggled with survival during the Holocaust, but together made it as long as they could. He made it longer than his father and lived long enough to write this book. His father died few days before they were liberated. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel the author used many father son relationship scenarios. Elie and his father love each other and show that by caring for each other. One way they show father son relationship is elie puts his father before himself “I decided to give my father lessons in marching in step and keeping time” He took the time in helping his father instead of helping himself “ Elie’s relationship with his father became much closer than in the beginning of the story. During their time in the concentration camp they were separated from the rest of their family and only had each other. “My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me. I had no right to let myself die. …show more content…
Elie respected his father because he was an important member of his community, but his father wasn’t very supportive of his study goals. Elie wanted to learn Kabbalah but his father said he was too young for that and needed to understand basic studies before he did anything. Elie’s father wasn’t sentimental about anything unlike Elie, him and his father had a very professional relationship. Unil him and his father suffered together in the concentration camp. Even in the camps there were some times when Elie couldn’t do anything to help his father like when the soldier beat him Elie couldn’t do anything about it he just had to stand there and watch, because he didn’t wanna end up having the same thing happen to him. After being there for as long as they were they learned that they would have to work together to