Unconditional love gives Elie and his father the power and strength to overcome the most dramatic experience of their lives. The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a great book. This amazing novel demonstrates many different things, such as the father-son relationship between Elie and his father is what kept them alive. They always wanted to be together, Elie and Shlomo never gave up on each other and Elie was staying alive for his father. A fathers role is to protect his child and a Sons role is to protect his parent when they are in need. In Night Elie and Shlomo both protected each other. Elie and his father were always together. they loved each other and all that they had was each other. They always wanted to be near …show more content…
Elie knew deep down that he had to help his father so he would’t die. "Listen to me, kid. Don’t forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every man for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even your father. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend” (Wiesel, 110). Elie thought about the idea for a moment and then didn’t listen because he promised never to give up on his father. Elie always thought of his father before himself, even if it would benefit himself. There was a man who told Elie to take his fathers rations but Elie did what was right. Elie ignored the man and “Elie ran to get some soup and brought it to his father” (Wiesel, 111).Elie did the right thing by bringing food to his father. He was starving but still didn’t give up on each other and his first thought was to help his father. Elie and his father always support each other, through all the pain and suffering that they were going through they still though of each other. “We won’t let each other fall asleep” (Wiesel, 86). They kept each other awake from falling asleep in the cold so that they wouldn’t die. They kept each other awake so that they wouldn’t loose one another because one another was all that they had. By Elie and his father not giving up on each other, Elie knew that he had to stay alive for his