Summary Of Eliezer Wiesel's Night

In the end of Night, Eliezer and his weakened father arrives at Buchenwald after a forced march and a death train transportation. In the train, food is thrown into the cars by people in the passing towns who then watches as the starving prisoners fought and killed each other to get food. Dead bodies, whether dead from starvation or illness, are being thrown out of the train cars by guards.
His father barely breathing, Eliezer jolts up and begins to slap his father. “Father! Father Wake up. They’re trying to throw you out of the carriage…” The two gravediggers then begin to seized Eliezer by the collar. Eliezer crying out he isn't dead, he then sets off to slap his father harder. After a movement of his eyelids, Eliezer was able to relaxed and prove his father is not …show more content…
Eliezer arranges to stay in the same cell block with his father and when he father cries for water, Eliezer hesitates because of his father's illness. During the last night of his life, Eliezer continues to sleep soundly above him, Eliezer heard his father call his name once but he does not respond. The following morning on January 29, someone else was in his father's bed. Eliezer looks up and cries out as the guards takes his father to the death chamber known as the crematory. Eliezer is stunned with his grief and his release into freedom, he is now by himself and can concentrate his thoughts and efforts on his own survival. Eliezer stating when he looks off into the distance, "I did not weep, and it pains me that I could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of being, in the recesses of my weaken conscience, I could have searched it, I might have found something like--free at last!”. Following the death of Eliezer's Father, the roles of him being a son is now fading away. Eliezer feeling he lost himself as a son to his father, because of the lack ability to stand up and help his father.