Examples Of Relationships In Night By Elie Wiesel

Relationships in Night In Night by Elie Wiesel, the narrator, Elie Wiesel, gives a first hand account of Auschwitz. A concentration camp led by Germany during World War II. The story begins when Elie starts to notice that things are starting to change in Germany and neighboring countries, that involve the Jewish population. Throughout the book he tells the stories he has from Auschwitz, and explains what was his thoughts and feelings about certain things that go on inside of the camp. Toward the end of the novel it explains what was going on with him and his fellow prisoners escaping the camps and trying to survive outside of the camp. Whilst throughout the course of the novel it explains how Wiesels relationships change with certain people
over the time of the Holocaust. One relationship that changes over the course of the novel is Wiesel’s relationship with his father. In the beggining of the book while the germans were seperating the males from the females, he gets seperated from his mother and sister. After that all he wanted was to stay with his father, anywhere Wiesel goes he hopes his father goes with him. And his father does stay with him throughout the course of the novel. It was his reaction to what happens to his father is when the reader starts to notice that things are starting to change with his father. Such as when his father gets beaten by Idek, the leader of his barrack, and “What’s more, if [he] felt anger at that moment, it was not direct at the Kapo but by at [his]father. Why couldn’t he have avoided Idek’s wrath? That is what life in the concentration camp had made of [him]…” ( Wiesel 54). More towards the end when Wiesel and his father are escaping from the concentration camp. And then his father gets very ill, and that there is nothing left for Wiesel to do to save him. After he has noticed that his father is dead. He wanted to cry, but he knew that he couldn´t cry. Also that is his father death is something that is good now he can have more food and water.
Another relationship that changes throughout the novel is Wiesel’s relationship with God. In the beggining of the novel he is very religeous and emotional towards God. In the middle of the book there is a scene where people get hanged and he starts to question where God is, and he says that god is hanging from the gallows. When Wiesels talks about Yom Kippur “[He] did not fast. First of all, to please [his] father who had forbidden [him] to do so. And then, there was no longer any reason for [him] to fast. [he] no longer accepted God’s silence.” (69). At the end of the novel he returns to accept and believe God again, like the beggining of Night.
Throughout the course of the novel it explains how Wiesels relationships change with certain people over the time of the Holocaust. His relationship with his father and with God has changed throughout the course of Night.