Father/Son Relationships and Faith in Night
In the memoir, Night, Wiesel shows readers all around the world his experience during the Holocaust. Wiesel and his family were sent to Auschwitz in 1944 where his mother and little sister were killed almost immediately. Him and his father were separated from Wiesel’s older sisters and were sent to Buchenwald, the work camp. During this time, he grew closer to his father, however, being in the concentration camp made Wiesel start to lose his faith in God. As Wiesel’s faith diminished, his relationship with his father grew stronger.
During Wiesel’s childhood his faith was very strong, but him and his father were not all that close. When Wiesel was young, he was very devoted to Judaism. Moshe the Beadle and him would read the Zohar together everyday and pray together. “We would read together, ten times over, the same page of the Zohar. Not to learn it by heart, but to extract the divine essence from it” (Wiesel 3). Although his faith was strong, his relationship with his father wasn’t. Wiesel states, “My father was a cultured, rather unsentimental man. [...] He was more concerned with others than his own family” (Wiesel 2). Him and his father did have a relationship, it’s just that his father was unsentimental and unconcerned with his family. However, as Wiesel explains more of their experiences in the holocaust, …show more content…
“And, in spite of myself, a prayer rose in my heart, to that God in whom I no longer believed” (Wiesel 87). Even though he no longer believed in God, he still sent a prayer to him because he would do anything to keep his father alive. “I held onto my father’s hand. The old familiar fear: not to lose him” (Wiesel 99). The only thing he wanted was for his father to live; however, that didn’t happen. Shortly before Wiesel and the other living prisoners were liberated, Wiesel’s father died of
In the memoir, Night, Wiesel shows readers all around the world his experience during the Holocaust. Wiesel and his family were sent to Auschwitz in 1944 where his mother and little sister were killed almost immediately. Him and his father were separated from Wiesel’s older sisters and were sent to Buchenwald, the work camp. During this time, he grew closer to his father, however, being in the concentration camp made Wiesel start to lose his faith in God. As Wiesel’s faith diminished, his relationship with his father grew stronger.
During Wiesel’s childhood his faith was very strong, but him and his father were not all that close. When Wiesel was young, he was very devoted to Judaism. Moshe the Beadle and him would read the Zohar together everyday and pray together. “We would read together, ten times over, the same page of the Zohar. Not to learn it by heart, but to extract the divine essence from it” (Wiesel 3). Although his faith was strong, his relationship with his father wasn’t. Wiesel states, “My father was a cultured, rather unsentimental man. [...] He was more concerned with others than his own family” (Wiesel 2). Him and his father did have a relationship, it’s just that his father was unsentimental and unconcerned with his family. However, as Wiesel explains more of their experiences in the holocaust, …show more content…
“And, in spite of myself, a prayer rose in my heart, to that God in whom I no longer believed” (Wiesel 87). Even though he no longer believed in God, he still sent a prayer to him because he would do anything to keep his father alive. “I held onto my father’s hand. The old familiar fear: not to lose him” (Wiesel 99). The only thing he wanted was for his father to live; however, that didn’t happen. Shortly before Wiesel and the other living prisoners were liberated, Wiesel’s father died of