In the beginning of the book, Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie was just a little boy deep into his religion. Reading the kabbalah and talmud and having his own guide to follow. He had a sister, mother and, father. Elie,his sister and, mother were close. Spending time and being together, on the other side with Elie’s father and himself they weren’t close.
The Relationship Between Wiesel and His Father The harshness and the battle of war can never separate a bond between father and son. In his memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. In the town of Sighet, a young Jewish boy named Wiesel and his family is taken from ghetto in 1944 to the Auschwitz, in 1945 Wiesel and other Jews from the camps are set free from the Nazis. While living in Sighet, the relationship between Wiesel and his father are not close.
Night, a memoir by a survivor from the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel is about him in a little town of Transylvania in Sighet. Throughout the book, you learn what Elie did during his time in ghettos, concentration camps, and surviving. But, through most of this torment his father was right next to him. Although family relationship can keep a person alive, there are times when their relationship can be burdensome. Firstly, Stein maintaining hope being he believes his family is alive is a citation of keeping a person alive from family relationships.
In Night Elie Wiesel is challenged and changed fundamentally after realizing how evil humankind can truly be. Elie is challenged faithfully, has difficulty understanding his father testing their relationship, ultimately changing and challenging himself when seeing how awful people truly are, and needed to alter himself to stay alive. Elie is very dedicated to faith in the agnosticism religion, but throughout his time in the concentration camps, the brutal treatment he receives and watching others experience there leads him to doubt his faith. Elie and his father Shlomos’ relationship has implications from the start and the trauma they face throughout their journey in Monowitz and Buchenwald creates an ever-changing bond between the twoElie
The horrific events that occurred in Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, are disgusting because they are events that could have happened to any Jewish person who lived in Europe during the time of the Holocaust. This book urges its readers to consider many aspects of human experiences, especially ones such as morality, and fate. In this book, Eliezer, the main character who is a Jewish teenager from Hungary, goes through the horrific experiences of Auschwitz, one of Hitler’s concentration camps. Eliezer experiences the death of others around him, he survived crematories, and the shootings of the Gestapo soldiers. This book urges readers to consider morality because it makes people think of how immoral humanity can become with the genocide of an entire race of people.
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky,” are the words Elie spoke upon his first arrival in a concentration camp, highlighting the importance of this quote is the use of anaphora on the words, “Never shall I forget”(Wiesel 32). The author of the autobiography, Elie Wiesel, is a Jew born in Sighetu Marmației, România who was taken by the Nazis to Auschwitz when he was only fifteen. His autobiography, Night, depicts his firsthand experience as a prisoner during the Holocaust.
In the book Night, we the readers witness the hardships and struggles in Elie’s life during the traumatic holocaust. The events that take place in this story are unbearable and are thought to be demented in modern times. In the beginning Elie is shown as a normal teenage Jewish boy, but the events are so drastic that we the readers forget how he was like in the beginning. Changes were made to Elie during the book, whether they were minor or major. The changes generated from himself, the journey, and other people.
Relationships are a fragile thing, and harsh conditions can make or break relationships. Oftentimes going through something traumatic and horrible can bring people closer together. Other times it can tear them apart because of the amount of damage the conditions brought on. Throughout the book Night written by Elie Wiesel, Elie and his father go through one of the hardest things a person has ever had to go through and it strengthens their relationship. Relationships are a delicate thing that can break down or grow stronger in horrible conditions.
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
Tragedy Brought Them Together Since tragedy causes agony to one’s emotional and physical health, having family through the process therefore can help mend the soul back to upright health. Family has been an influence in my life when there are trials and tribulations. During these bumps in the road, I wouldn’t have been in suitable mind without my family. These relationships that we form with one another will build a solid foundation for present and future events. Provided throughout my paper will be key situations from the book Night, in which Elie Wiesel was in need of family and relationships to help him through the tragedy of the concentration camps.
“Night” is a nonfiction story that is narrated by Elie Wiesel. He is a Jewish philosopher and poet that happened to witness the tragedies of the holocaust and miraculously survived. The story is filled with agony, despair, and hopelessness. However, at the end of his contemplations with the Holocaust, readers may come to the assumption that Wiesel has decided to wipe out his beliefs with Judaism and God. Throughout the story, Wiesel's own thoughts seemed to imply that he could no longer be a part of the Jewish life.
The Holocaust was a cruel and terrifying time, especially for the groups targeted. Before it began, the Wiesels had been a deeply religious Jewish family. Elie Wiesel was only a teenager when he and his family were torn from their home and sent to concentration camps. There, he faced many horrors including the deaths of his family and the distortion of the person he once was. Wiesel has recounted these horrific events in his memoir, Night.
Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night tells the personal tale of his account of the inhumanity and brutality the Nazis showed during the Holocaust. Night depicts the story of a young Jew from the small town of Sighet named Eliezer. Wiesel and his family are deported to the concentration camp known as Auschwitz. He must learn to survive with his father’s help until he finds liberation from the horror of the camp. This memoir, however, hides a greater lesson that can only be revealed through careful analyzation.
“I realized that he did not want to see what they were going to do to me. He did not want to see the burning of his only son”(42). When Eliezer arrives at Auschwitz, the separation of his family puts an emotional toll on his father since he realizes that only him and Eliezer are still alive. This will be a catalyst to their relationship becoming stronger as they endure more together. Elie Wiesel, the author of the novel Night writes his own personal accounts of experiencing the Holocaust through the character Eliezer.
Night Critical Abdoul Bikienga Johann Schiller once said “It is not flesh and blood, but the heart which makes us fathers and sons”. But what happens when the night darkens our hearts our hearts? The Holocaust memoir Night does a phenomenal job of portraying possibly the most horrifying outcomes in such a situation. Through subtle and effective language, Wiesel is able to put into words the fearsome experiences he and his father went through in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. In his holocaust memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel utilizes imagery to show the effect that self-preservation can have on father son relationships.
