When they arrived at the camp, Elie and his father were separated from the rest of their family. As Elie lost his faith in God, his father became the only source of hope and encouragement in his life. When they stopped in the abandoned village during their march to Gleiwitz, both Elie and his father would have succumbed to the cold and the temptation of sleep had they not been together. “I 'll watch over you and you 'll watch over me. We won 't let each other fall asleep.…
I feel like this is something that made Elie’s bond stronger with his dad. It is evident that this a symbolic relationship between Elie and God. God is often referred to as the father and the Jewish people have a convent with Him. This is seen in the story of Abraham where God ask Abraham to sacrifice his son, and then this promise is made. Because of the relationship between Elie and his father, his father is the worldly image of God, which is why Elie turn to God once his father passes away.…
After Elie’s family is sent to the concentration camps, they are separated and Elie is alone with his father. His father is what keeps him alive. Elie pushes through the concentration camp for his father, so he doesn’t have to bare the pain of seeing his only son die. “His voice…
And something within me revolted against this death”(Wiesel 95). It is possible that Elie wanted to survive because he wanted to be with his father. His connection to his father wills him to be able to keep living. Elie is inspired by the fight his father shows, therefore he feels the need to be right there alongside his father. In addition, perhaps it is Elie’s kindness that propels him…
One result of Elie’s father’s life being extended may have been getting good medical treatment after liberation and choose to continue living. Instead, Elie stayed quiet about his father’s overwhelming desire to “rest”, and rest he eventually did because of this silence. Therefore, because Elie’s silence could not change his father’s lack of will to live, Elie’s thoughts reveal that silence halts…
Elie revealed to the readers that he was somewhat relieved that his father had died. Elie and his father were very close. They always protected each other. During the Holocaust, he was only focused on survival, and having his father gone allowed him to just focus on protecting himself. If someone else wrote a book about Elie’s experience in the Holocaust, readers would have most likely never known this piece of information, because it was something Elie thought to himself.…
He did think that his dad was a burden that he was caring around, but he still helped his only family member. When Elie was in Auschwitz his dad got deathly ill and he was told “Listen to me, kid. 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.…
“If only I didn’t find him! If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could use all my strength to for my own survival, to take care only of myself…Instantly I felt ashamed, ashamed of myself forever.” (Wiesel 106). Elie had moved on from his “I would die if I didn’t need to take care of my father” mood. Now, his father was a burden, a weakness.…
“My hand tightened its grip on my father. All i could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone”(30). Elie was already in extreme fear, being separated from his mother, and now his biggest concern was losing his…
It was really sad to read how none of the doctors tried to help the father. Elie was trying his hardest to keep his father alive, literally everything. On January 29, the day that Elie’s father passed away. Elie was all out of tears that he couldn’t mourn over his father.…
Elie states, “The absent no longer entered our thoughts…” (Wiesel 36) After this he says that people only speak about the absent, but their fate didn’t cross his mind, because he was too busy thinking about his life. Not only him, but all of the Jews were incapable of thinking, their senses were numbered, they no longer clung to anything, their instincts of self-preservation, of self defense and pride was gone. They felt like wandering souls seeking redemption without any hope. Next, when his father was getting beaten, he says, “I did not move.…
Elie’s feelings change because he no longer cares for his father with the same affection as before the camps due to the drastically different circumstances. As Shlomo “called out to” Elie, he does not answer. Elie “had not answered” because it is too much effort to answer his father and care for him when Elie’s energy levels are very low and he needs to preserve his energy for himself. Because of this selfish yet survivalist action, Elie’s father dies and is taken away over the night, and when Elie wakes up in the morning he is sorrowful, but he is relieved and he says that he is “free at last” from the weakness of his…
In Maus, Vladek loss his son, his in laws, but throughout that he still did everything he could to keep him and Anja safe. In Night, Elie lost, his father, mother, sister, and himself in the process. ”I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears.” (Elie, 112) Elie lost all hope and nothing mattered to him anymore after the death of his father, that was all he had left.…
Elie has many opportunities to help his father get stronger but then the head of Elies block tries to get him to take care of himself and forget about others by saying, “Don’t forget you’re in a concentration camp. Here, every man has to fight for himself and not think of anyone else” (Wiesel 105). Elie is being told that he needs to depend on himself and if he wants to make it out alive he needs to put himself first. The head of the block then goes on by saying, “there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends. Everyone lives and dies for himself alone” (105).…
For a while, I have noticed that my relationship with my father is not the strongest. We are close in that I see him often, but we both do not have very strong communication skills. I believe our lack of communication negatively affects our relationship. I will first evaluate my relationship with my father for the positive elements of communication, equality and openness. Then, I will look for ways that I can resolve the issues I find in the communication on my end.…