Alone By Elie Wiesel Analysis

Throughout the book, Eli losses strong relationships and close connection with his family. First Eli losses connection with his mother and little sister. Not only did Eli family loss connection but other Jewish families did too. All the clueless Jewish families lost connection right as they got to the camp and off the train. That day the Jewish community is when women are going one way and the men are going the other way. A family is suppose to stay together through bad and good times but when “Eight words were spoken... without emotion..I left my mother (and) my sister”(29). That is when the families separate and this is the day when many families were separated. When those eight words were said a lot of emotions flow throughout the camp. Some people had a really hard time disembodying from the family which they had never left behind before.
After everything happen and they were going on the death march and when we were almost there Eli's father dies from not being healthy and being beaten in the past at the camp. Which is not a good thing to die from because some people have the choice of being healthy and not being healthy. Eli father had not have that choice and that made the relationship hard between them bad because Eli was doing better than his dad but his dad could not carry on him. So now “on [Elis] father's cot..no prayers were said over his tomb..free at last”(112). With the death, Eli now has more time to focus on saving himself. This shows that Eli was not sad nor was he happy though that his father died. It was his last connection was his family and no one after Eli's dad would be there for