Elie Wiesel's Night

Painful. Horrific. Terrifying. In the memoir book Night written by Elie Wiesel was based on a true story of the author. Elie was just a young Jewish boy when he lost everything including himself during the Holocaust. Elie's relationship with his family and dad was very weak. Elie's relationship with his father was very distant while living in Sighet but once they arrived at the camps they realized that they only had each other thus creating a bond until the very end. Elie's and his father's relationship was distant while living in Sighet. Before the concentration camps Shlomo was rather distant from Elie and his family. Elie says "My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin" (4). Elie's father was a respected Jewish community leader in Sighet. …show more content…
Thus creating a bond between the two. Elie's mother and sisters were separated from Elie and his father and were less to the crematorium. Then Elie thought to himself, "My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone" (30). After arriving at the camps, Elie and his father tried their best to give each other reassurance and hope. They both stayed together until the very end. By the liberation of the camps, Elie and his father's relationship was strong. Before the liberation of the camps, Elie's father dies from being beaten by a Kapo before being liberated. Elie was liberated on April 11 without his father. Elie says "I shall not describe my life during that period. It no longer mattered. Since my father's death, nothing mattered to me anymore" (113). Even though Elie was relieved the Jewish people were liberated, Elie feels empty and alone without his father. His father was his world during the Holocaust. When his father died his world