Night
In the novel 'Night' by Elie Weisel we learn about the relationship between Elie and his father and how it changes through out their experiences of being in the death camps at the time of the Holocaust. The novel is an autobiography by Elie and is written in first person narrative and relates the events from his perspective.Elie lived in a small Jewish community in Sighet, Translavanyia. There he lived with his three sisters and his parents who owned a local shop. In the first chapter Elie describes his father as a 'rather unsentimental man' and told us of how 'He is more concerned with others than with his own family.' Straight away we learn that Elie and his father were not that close emotionally. Elie's father was one of the leading men in the community and did not approve of Elie reading the Cabbala which formed a barrier of separation between father and son. The first bond between Elie and his father is when they reach the death camp. The first orders they are given is 'Men to the left! Women to the right! Elie did not know at that time he was to be parted from his mother and sisters forever. It is now that Elie and his father start the terrifying journey of life in the camps together. Just after . . .
Depending on what you did you either went to the left or the right. Whilst Elie and his father are resting a man opens the door to the factory. ' Elie was starting to have different feelings about his father and he knew it was coming to and end and wanting to just save himself. The food in these camps were extremely poor and the men were worked very hard. Even though he felt guilty about it he had realised what the camp had turned him into. ' He then later says 'No better than Rabbi Eliahou's son had I withstood the test. Elie grudges giving his dad some of his soup. Throughout the novel you see Elie and his father stick by each other and show there love for each other very clearly. 'What would he do without me? I was his only support. He didn't think about him again until the next morning when he awoke, and decided to go and find him, but even at that moment he thought 'Don't let me find him! If only I could get rid of this dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my own survival, and only worry about myself!' He also writes, 'Immediately I felt ashamed of myself, ashamed forever. Rabbi Eliahou was looking for his son which he had lost on the journey. a shame that you couldn't have gone with your mother .
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