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    concentration camp during the Holocaust? You have already heard that it was about the Jewish race. You know that Jews weren’t treated poorly. But‚ do you know everything? The author Elie Wiesel can tell you his story in his book‚ Night. There are multiple themes in the book. One is Father/ son relationships. In NightElie Wiesel uses irony‚ foreshadowing‚ and tone to illustrate the traumatic event known as the Holocaust. One literary device is irony. “...They said that we were sick‚ that we would

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    years prior to Elie’s Wiesel’s experience in the Holocaust‚ Elie and his father shared a distant relationship that lacked a tremendous amount of support and communications but‚ eventually‚ their bond strengthens as they rely on each other for survival and comfort. Elie Wiesel’s description of the relationship he shared with his father‚ Shlomo‚ prior to the Holocaust‚ shows that it is distant and lacks the chemistry a father and son usually possess. Elie retells that his father did not show signs of

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    Father and Son Relationships” in Elie Wiesel’sNight.” In the short story “The Night‚” Elie Wiesel explores that how father and son ruin their relationship in the period of the anti-Semitism. They lose their appearance‚ lovely life and wealth for being Jews. Elie and his family‚ as well as numerous other families‚ were kidnapped from their homes by the German Nazis and were forced to work in concentration camps because of their Jewish heritage. The Jews were required to

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    Relationships in Night In the novel Night tells an autobiography about Elie’s time in the Holocaust and the book explains how the relationships with his father‚ and God change in the event of the time he spent during the Holocaust. One relationship that changes over the course of this novel is Elie’s relationship with his father. At the beginning of Wiesel’s story he has almost no relationship with his father. His father was more involved with the Jewish community‚ and it left no

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    2012 Father-Son Relationships: A vital part of life In the book Night by Elie Wiesel‚ there are many father-son duos. In my opinion‚ a good relationship between a father and his son are vital. Their relationships with each other are varied in terms of agreeability and love for each other. The Germans have sent the Jews off to concentration camps and caused very trying times. They have torn whole family’s apart and sent people at each other’s throats. Elie’s relationship with his father changes

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    In his memoire‚ Night‚ one of Eliezer Wiesel’s main themes is how the relationship between fathers and sons is drastically changed over the course of imprisonment and in different ways. At the beginning of the book‚ new prisoners hold on to the only thing they have: their family. For some people‚ the only thing that gives them the will to keep living is the knowledge that their family is still alive‚ or the need to help their families. The most prominent family relationship in the camps (mostly

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    In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel‚ there are many father-son duos. There relationships with each other are varied in terms of agreeability and love for each other. The Germans have sent the Jews off to concentration camps and caused very trying times. They have torn whole families apart and set people at each others throats. Elie’s relationship with his father changes over time. At first‚ the only reason that he didn’t give up in the camps is so that his father wouldn’t be alone. He says so

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    through the harsh experiences. Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ is an emotional story about a boy and his father surviving through the Holocaust. After Elie and his father separated from the women in their family‚ the two went through many near death experiences. The relationship between Elie and his father was a long and complicated one that played a large role in the story. Their bond grew‚ as their roles got reversed‚ which is a significant contrast to other father-son relationships. As time went by in the

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    There are three different father and son relationships in Night. Some things about them are different and some are the same. The thing that they all had similar was the fathers loved their sons and would do anything to save them. Elie and his father loved each other lots. They had never left one another’s side. Rabbi Eliahou’s son saw him getting weaker and left him for dead when they were running. The man who stole the bread and his son Meir‚ Meir barely remembered his father and he attacked him.Elie

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    1 Relationship: From Night to Day (Rough Draft) In the short but gripping memoir named “Night‚” author Elie (Eliezer) Wiesel deeply reflects on his experiences in various concentration camps with his father during the Holocaust. Before the Jews were shipped off to incessant fear and starvation‚ Elie’s father didn’t have a significant relationship with his family‚ particularly Elie. After they were shipped away and got separated from the females in their family‚ however‚ Elie and his father

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