The novel Night written by Elie Wiesel provides an example of the struggle of keeping relationships table during a stressful time. The main character in this novel Ellie gets forced to use his survival skills in the camps during the Holocaust which causes him to experience an internal conflict, weakening the relationship with his father. When Ellie first arrives at the camps the camp worker separates Elie from all of his loved ones beside his father, he makes it his number one priority for them to stick together. However, as they are living several months in the camps with the dreadful conditions they grow weaker and find it more intolerable for them to encourage each other to stay fighting. Elie's father's growing unsteady and Ellie forces
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One of the Blockältestes who is standing beside Elie asked if that was his father. When Elie responds with yes. The Blockälteste then proceeds to say that the doctor or himself are unable to save him from his dreadful conditions. He reminds Elie that he needs to move on and think of his own survival: “Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every man for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even your father” (Wiesel 110). Elie is doubting himself because knows that his best odds of surviving will be will be without his father but also doesn't want to give up on him. The Blockälteste along with others are putting words in his head, where he starts to believe more and more that his father is dragging him down with him. The stress of survival as Elie fights for his life, is tearing him apart on whether to focus on himself since his father is almost at the end of his life or to try to keep his father alive and fighting as long as possible. Elie began at the camps and only thinks of him and his father surviving together, but by the end, as he witnesses all the deaths and suffering he now has thoughts of leaving him to die. Elie shows the struggle to keep a relationship under the pressure of survival, as he grows distant from his dad over the time in the
One of the Blockältestes who is standing beside Elie asked if that was his father. When Elie responds with yes. The Blockälteste then proceeds to say that the doctor or himself are unable to save him from his dreadful conditions. He reminds Elie that he needs to move on and think of his own survival: “Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every man for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even your father” (Wiesel 110). Elie is doubting himself because knows that his best odds of surviving will be will be without his father but also doesn't want to give up on him. The Blockälteste along with others are putting words in his head, where he starts to believe more and more that his father is dragging him down with him. The stress of survival as Elie fights for his life, is tearing him apart on whether to focus on himself since his father is almost at the end of his life or to try to keep his father alive and fighting as long as possible. Elie began at the camps and only thinks of him and his father surviving together, but by the end, as he witnesses all the deaths and suffering he now has thoughts of leaving him to die. Elie shows the struggle to keep a relationship under the pressure of survival, as he grows distant from his dad over the time in the