Night Analysis
As a child you always could rely on someone. A person that could tell you right from wrong and made sure you were always safe. Sometimes as you get older you believe that they are just something that is holding you back. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie relies on his father as a life support and vice versa, while other son’s believe their fathers are holding them back from surviving. These son’s abandon and kill their fathers while Elie fights for his father. Elie and his father always had a strong relationship, but it became stronger once they were the only family the other had in the concentration camps. When one was hurt or wanted to stop, they would keep going for the other. For example, Elie thinks to himself while running, “My father's
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At one camp, Rabbi Eliahu asked Elie if he had seen his son that he had lost during the Death March, Elie replied no. Elie then remembered he had seen the the Rabbi’s son, “But then I remembered something else: his son had seen him losing ground, sliding back to the rear of the column. He had seen him. And he had continued to run in front, letting the distance between them become greater.” Rabbi Eliahu’s son had abandoned him during the Death March when he saw his father was slowing down. The Rabbi’s son saw his father as something that was stopping him from surviving and was weak, he didn’t want to risk his life for others. On the train later on the SS officers were throwing bread to the prisoners like they were geese. Elie noticed a man with a piece of bread nearby, “...His eyes lit up, a smile, like a grimace, illuminated his ashen face. And was immediately extinguished. A shadow had lain down beside him. And this shadow threw itself over him. Stunned by the blows, the old man was crying: "Meir, my little Meir! Don't you recognize m e … You're killing your father… I have bread…for you too … for you too… " He collapsed… But the other threw himself on him. The old man mumbled something, groaned, and died.” The son of a man tackled his father for some bread he had, but he went to the extreme of killing his father just so he could eat. The son saw his father as
At one camp, Rabbi Eliahu asked Elie if he had seen his son that he had lost during the Death March, Elie replied no. Elie then remembered he had seen the the Rabbi’s son, “But then I remembered something else: his son had seen him losing ground, sliding back to the rear of the column. He had seen him. And he had continued to run in front, letting the distance between them become greater.” Rabbi Eliahu’s son had abandoned him during the Death March when he saw his father was slowing down. The Rabbi’s son saw his father as something that was stopping him from surviving and was weak, he didn’t want to risk his life for others. On the train later on the SS officers were throwing bread to the prisoners like they were geese. Elie noticed a man with a piece of bread nearby, “...His eyes lit up, a smile, like a grimace, illuminated his ashen face. And was immediately extinguished. A shadow had lain down beside him. And this shadow threw itself over him. Stunned by the blows, the old man was crying: "Meir, my little Meir! Don't you recognize m e … You're killing your father… I have bread…for you too … for you too… " He collapsed… But the other threw himself on him. The old man mumbled something, groaned, and died.” The son of a man tackled his father for some bread he had, but he went to the extreme of killing his father just so he could eat. The son saw his father as