Night
Joseph Artabane
4/3/13
Mr. Kanai
English II
A.M.D.G
Father Son
In Elie Wiesel’s autobiography “Night” the protagonist Elie has to choose whether to put his needs over his fathers and leave him to die and to strengthen his own chance of survival or let himself struggle to try and keep his father alive. This choice is so hard for a 16 year old boy to make by himself. His love for his father and all he has done for him makes him want to stay, but his constant hunger and own survival is on the line and with people dying left and right he needs his strength if he is to weather the rest of this genocidal storm. In the beginning of the book this choice is extremely easy for Elie. His father was his rock. With Elie being so young he never had to be self-sufficient before. His father had to take care of him like a child and things weren’t that bad yet. His father was there for him when he saw all the horrors and helped him survive another day. Even when he was “face to face with the angel of death” his father was speechless but his pure presence I bet helped Elie sleep and night. His father was there for him with all the things that he was struggling with hunger, pain and most of all, his struggle with what he thought he would always have with him his faith. This lingering effect of making the choice to leave his father was extremely apparent when he met the man that was looking for his son on page 90. When Elie realizes that he has met the man’s he contemplates why the son would have run ahead of his father and a scary thought came into his head. “what if he had wanted to be rid of his father/ He had felt his father growing weaker and, believing that the end was near, had thought by this separation to free himself of a burden that could diminish his own chance for survival” he then goes on to pray to God that he never makes that choice that the man’s son made… “Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu’s son has
4/3/13
Mr. Kanai
English II
A.M.D.G
Father Son
In Elie Wiesel’s autobiography “Night” the protagonist Elie has to choose whether to put his needs over his fathers and leave him to die and to strengthen his own chance of survival or let himself struggle to try and keep his father alive. This choice is so hard for a 16 year old boy to make by himself. His love for his father and all he has done for him makes him want to stay, but his constant hunger and own survival is on the line and with people dying left and right he needs his strength if he is to weather the rest of this genocidal storm. In the beginning of the book this choice is extremely easy for Elie. His father was his rock. With Elie being so young he never had to be self-sufficient before. His father had to take care of him like a child and things weren’t that bad yet. His father was there for him when he saw all the horrors and helped him survive another day. Even when he was “face to face with the angel of death” his father was speechless but his pure presence I bet helped Elie sleep and night. His father was there for him with all the things that he was struggling with hunger, pain and most of all, his struggle with what he thought he would always have with him his faith. This lingering effect of making the choice to leave his father was extremely apparent when he met the man that was looking for his son on page 90. When Elie realizes that he has met the man’s he contemplates why the son would have run ahead of his father and a scary thought came into his head. “what if he had wanted to be rid of his father/ He had felt his father growing weaker and, believing that the end was near, had thought by this separation to free himself of a burden that could diminish his own chance for survival” he then goes on to pray to God that he never makes that choice that the man’s son made… “Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu’s son has