Have you ever felt like you didn't need to or feel the want to do something, but because there was a person that motivated you to persevere because you didn't to let them down? In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel him and his father are sent to a concentration camp and can hardly survive the harsh weather, the cruelty, and the starvation. Elie Wiesel needs a way to live and his father helps him achieve this by being his motivation to keep his own father alive.
Elie’s father becomes weak and old which now leaves it up to Elie to start getting him food and other utilities, “I fought my way to the coffee cauldron like a wild beast. And succeeded in bringing back a cup. I took one gulps. . The rest was for him”(pg 106). Elie cares for his father and is willing to get almost trampled in this line of hungry, thirsty people ready to eat at whatever costs for his father and it's the reason of why he needs to survive so that he may …show more content…
At any time if the guards saw a Jew out of step while marching they were punished and to prevent it Elie taught his father so that his father may live and he would have something to live for. Elie would also help his father by helping him from place to place. Elie helped his father by telling him a better place to lie down would be. He tells his father, “Come, father, let's go back to the shed…. Come, father. It's better there. You'll be able to lie down. We’ll take turns. I'll watch over you and you'll watch over me. We won't let each other fall asleep. We’ll look after each other”(pg 89). Elie shows great compassion for his father by helping him to a better place so that he may be comfortable and so that he may live. Although it is his father watching him as well it is mostly Elie helping his father, but his father helps him by giving Elie a purpose to
Elie’s father becomes weak and old which now leaves it up to Elie to start getting him food and other utilities, “I fought my way to the coffee cauldron like a wild beast. And succeeded in bringing back a cup. I took one gulps. . The rest was for him”(pg 106). Elie cares for his father and is willing to get almost trampled in this line of hungry, thirsty people ready to eat at whatever costs for his father and it's the reason of why he needs to survive so that he may …show more content…
At any time if the guards saw a Jew out of step while marching they were punished and to prevent it Elie taught his father so that his father may live and he would have something to live for. Elie would also help his father by helping him from place to place. Elie helped his father by telling him a better place to lie down would be. He tells his father, “Come, father, let's go back to the shed…. Come, father. It's better there. You'll be able to lie down. We’ll take turns. I'll watch over you and you'll watch over me. We won't let each other fall asleep. We’ll look after each other”(pg 89). Elie shows great compassion for his father by helping him to a better place so that he may be comfortable and so that he may live. Although it is his father watching him as well it is mostly Elie helping his father, but his father helps him by giving Elie a purpose to