Love Through Hatred “Of course. But one condition: I want to stay with my father.” (48), says Elie Wiesel as he talks to an SS officer, in his book titled Night. The book describes Wiesel’s experience in the Holocaust with his father. The two spend a little over a year in three different concentration camps together. In this book, Elie tells the readers about his physical and emotional struggles. Wiesel goes into detail about the number one thing that kept him going through this traumatizing time, his father. Elie Wiesel, and his dad both, relied on each other to get through this terrible stage in their life. This book shows the real relationships between father and son, the good and the ugly. Stripped down to show real love and sacrifices
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Wiesel use tone to show the desperation and the need of companionship that Elie felt for his father. While being transferred to another concentration camp there is selection that is taken place. Elie and his father are separated, Elie feels abandoned, very worried, and wants his father by his side. In spur of the moment Elie decides to create a diversion so his father can find his way back to Elie, so he is not executed. “I inched my way through the crowd. Several SS men then rushed to find me, creating such a confusion that a number of people were able to switch over to the right- among them my father and I. Still, there were gunshots and some dead” (96). Wiesel uses tone again to show the guilt and the want for his father to stay alive in order to be with him. When they are at the last concentration camp, Elie's father becomes very sick and it seems to be life threatening. So Elie goes and finds a doctor to see if he could help. The doctor says he can't do anything for Elie’s father and for Elie to start eating his father’s rations. “ I listen to him without interrupting. He was right, I thought deep down, not daring to admit it to myself. Too late to save your old father… You can have two rations of bread, two rations of soup… It was only a fraction of a second, but it left me feeling guilty I ran to get some soup and brought it to my father but he did not want it all he wanted was water.” (111). Elie stays by his father side until he dies a few days later.
The theme in this story is that a father and a son relationship can get through a lot. Elie Wiesel and his father's relationship is an amazing example of this message. Through the ups and downs of the Holocaust they stayed strong until the very end. Despite all the terrible things happening right in front of their eyes, their father and son relationship stayed strong and intensely
Wiesel use tone to show the desperation and the need of companionship that Elie felt for his father. While being transferred to another concentration camp there is selection that is taken place. Elie and his father are separated, Elie feels abandoned, very worried, and wants his father by his side. In spur of the moment Elie decides to create a diversion so his father can find his way back to Elie, so he is not executed. “I inched my way through the crowd. Several SS men then rushed to find me, creating such a confusion that a number of people were able to switch over to the right- among them my father and I. Still, there were gunshots and some dead” (96). Wiesel uses tone again to show the guilt and the want for his father to stay alive in order to be with him. When they are at the last concentration camp, Elie's father becomes very sick and it seems to be life threatening. So Elie goes and finds a doctor to see if he could help. The doctor says he can't do anything for Elie’s father and for Elie to start eating his father’s rations. “ I listen to him without interrupting. He was right, I thought deep down, not daring to admit it to myself. Too late to save your old father… You can have two rations of bread, two rations of soup… It was only a fraction of a second, but it left me feeling guilty I ran to get some soup and brought it to my father but he did not want it all he wanted was water.” (111). Elie stays by his father side until he dies a few days later.
The theme in this story is that a father and a son relationship can get through a lot. Elie Wiesel and his father's relationship is an amazing example of this message. Through the ups and downs of the Holocaust they stayed strong until the very end. Despite all the terrible things happening right in front of their eyes, their father and son relationship stayed strong and intensely