The book Night by Elie Wiesel is about the Jew’s experiences in the Germen concentration camps during World War II. In this book, there are many times his describes father/son relations grow, change, or end. These relationships are sometimes helpful or harmful to someone’s survival. Fathers would abandon their sons; Sons would abandon their fathers. Their family is all most had left, and the thought of losing them would be unbearable. There are many occasions where Wiesel and his father have helpful moments do saving the others live. Early in the book, Wiesel describes when his father would give his ration of bread to him; and later Wiesel starts giving his ration to his dad when he was so weak to move. They was trying to help each
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He spoke of a time when a young man and his father were running along with the rest of the men to the newest concentration camp to escape the Russians. When Wiesel met the Rabbi Eliahou, the young man’s father, he was looking for his son. Eliahou asked Wiesel and his father; “have you seen my boy? He didn’t notice that I was falling behind in the marching?” At first, they could not recall seeing him and told Eliahou that they haven’t. After Eliahou went on, Wiesel did remember seeing his son running past them, looking back to see his father falling behind and continued running forward. Another instance was when they was in the railroad carriage heading to a camp. The guards on duty starting throwing bread at the prisons and enjoyed watching them hurt one another to get a bite to eat. A man had gotten a piece of bread and was trying to hide the bread from others so he and his son could have it. But, when his son seen that his father was eating bread, he jumped on his father and started choking him to get the bread. The man yelled “Meir Meir, my boy, it is me, your father.” The son continued to choke his own father until he died. After the boy had killed his father, he picked up the bread and another man stuck him for the bread and he boy layed next to his father and died from the blow of the
He spoke of a time when a young man and his father were running along with the rest of the men to the newest concentration camp to escape the Russians. When Wiesel met the Rabbi Eliahou, the young man’s father, he was looking for his son. Eliahou asked Wiesel and his father; “have you seen my boy? He didn’t notice that I was falling behind in the marching?” At first, they could not recall seeing him and told Eliahou that they haven’t. After Eliahou went on, Wiesel did remember seeing his son running past them, looking back to see his father falling behind and continued running forward. Another instance was when they was in the railroad carriage heading to a camp. The guards on duty starting throwing bread at the prisons and enjoyed watching them hurt one another to get a bite to eat. A man had gotten a piece of bread and was trying to hide the bread from others so he and his son could have it. But, when his son seen that his father was eating bread, he jumped on his father and started choking him to get the bread. The man yelled “Meir Meir, my boy, it is me, your father.” The son continued to choke his own father until he died. After the boy had killed his father, he picked up the bread and another man stuck him for the bread and he boy layed next to his father and died from the blow of the