Night By Elie Wiesel Analysis

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the author talks about a father-son relationship. The father and son’s relationship grew stronger when they went to the concentration camp in Auschwitz. They had to take care of each other when they other one needed help. They not only had to learn to grow together but they also had to learn to live without each other. Being at the concentration camp was kind of like a survival camp. They had to learn to make it with and without each other.
When they went to the concentration they realized that they had to stick together through most of it because of the hardships that they faced. In the book Night, the author explains, “You are in Auschwitz. And Auschwitz is not a convalescent home. It is a concentration camp. Here, you must work. If you don’t you will go straight to the chimney. To the crematorium. Work or crematorium----- the choice is yours.” The author is saying that this is a place of work and nothing else. The author also mentions “My father had never served in the military and could not march in step. But here, whenever we moved from one place to another, it was …show more content…
The author gives an example of this by saying “I was no longer in the same block as my father. They had transferred me to another Kommando, the construction one, where twelve hours a day I hauled heavy slabs of stone.” At this point in the story, the main character has to leave his father and do other work. Another example of when the author shows this is “Listen to me, kid. Don’t forget this is 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. Each of us lives and dies alone.” In this part, one of the other people at the concentration camp is giving advice to the main character about having to survive alone and forget about the