Night Elie Wiesel Analysis

“His voice was terribly sad. I realized he did not want to see what they were going to do to me. He did not want to see the burning of his only son.” (21) Over one night Elie Wiesel’s entire world is turned upside down and changed immensely. Perhaps just as drastic though, was the change in the relationship between Elie and his father. As events in the Holocaust concentration camps ripped families apart a previously distant and unemotional relationship between a father and son was fortified in a way that one would never suspect possible. Just as Elie Wiesel and his father’s care for each other was strengthened, so was their internal determination to survive one excruciating day at a time. Before Elie Wiesel was expelled from his home with his family he and his father did not have an especially strong or meaningful relationship. “My father was a cultured, rather unsentimental man. There was never any display of emotion, even at home. He was more concerned with others than with his own family.” (1) Within a period of months Elie’s view of his father and consequent relationship with him change monumentally. It is due to this change that Elie survives the terrors of concentration camp life. …show more content…
How could you not lose sight of what was real and what was all a dark nightmare? “I pinched my face. Was I still alive? Was I awake? I could not believe it. No, none of this could be true.” (21) Each prisoner was stripped of his name and metaphorically tossed aside with his shirt and trousers. Everyone became one of millions of numbers to eventually be scratched out once their breath had given out. Chlomo Wiesel was Elie’s last tie to who he actually was and where he really came from. As they entered the atrocity that was Auschwitz they did so hand in hand, tying each other together and to the life they were leaving