Night Elie And His Father's Relationship Analysis

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How does Elie Wiesel’s relationship between him and his father change through out the book. The book is Night by Elie Wiesel Novel.
Elie and his fathers relationship is rough at the beginning of night. Their relationship is rough because his father tells him he can't learn Kabbalah so Elie finds himself a master, “There are no Kabbalist in sighet”( Wiesel 4). The quote shows Elie’s father is not to help him with his dream and telling him he could never be one because no one is a Kabbalist in sighet.

As Elie and his father learn to survive their relationship gets better. At this point in the book Elie and his father were the only ones in there family still together and living in Auchwitz (a death camp for Jews). “Father” I howled “father Get

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