Theme Of Loyalty In Night By Elie Wiesel

Loyalty Throughout any human’s life you are going to face hardships, and the decisions you make in those troubling times prove who you truly are. Even when you feel like it is just you against the world, your family should always have your back. For some people all they have is their family, and those people will stand in the face of danger to protect one of their own. Alas, a plentiful amount of people would rather believe in self-preservation when their family is in the midst of a life threatening altercation. Basically, these people in particular would not go out of their way to save a relative from the grips of death, instead they would rather escape with their own lives. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the theme of father and son relationships is haunted by self-preservation over love and loyalty.
Eliezer was constantly watching over his father and doing all that he could possibly do to keep him alive. Time and time again, Eliezer would risk his own life and rations for his father, but things began to change when Eliezer became weak. “If only I didn’t find him! If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could use all my strength to fight for my own survival, to take care only of myself” (101). Eliezer’s viewpoint changed to the appearance of his father as a burden and a threat to his own survival. Stressful times can lead to you thinking things that you would normally not even