![]() ![]() The text also says, “ Father! I’ve been looking for you for so long… Where were you?” (Wiesel 111). This shows the readers that through the horrid conditions at the concentration camps, Elie and his father had come closer through small things such as just giving each other pieces of bread. The text says, “ My father had brought me a present- half a ration of bread obtained in exchange for a piece of rubber” (Wiesel 79-80). After being seperated from the rest of his family, Elie’s father holds on to his hand because that is the only family he has left, therefore showing affection towards him by holding onto his hand.Īs their time in the concentration camps progresses we are shown more displays of affection between Elie Wiesel and his father. I had no time to think, but already I felt the pressure of my father’s hand: we were alone” (Wiesel 38). The text says, “ Yet that was the moment when I parted from my mother. He felt as if he were alone from the rest of his family.Īfter Elie and his father are separated from his sisters and mother, we are shown the first sign of Elie’s father openly caring for Elie. At this point, Elie and his father don’t show love to one another. That shows that Elie was distant from the rest of his family because even though, him going to school is better for him he would be doing something separate from everyone else. As for me, they said my place was at school” (Wiesel 14). The text also says, “ My parents ran a shop. That says that Elie’s father never openly showed affection for his family or others. There was never any display of emotion, even at home” (Wiesel 14). The text says, “ My father was a cultured, rather unsentimental man. In the beginning of the book Elie Wiesel and his father are shown to be emotionally distant from one another. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the book shows how in the beginning Elie and his father weren’t very close but as they are put into concentration camps, their relationship starts to grow stronger with Elie’s father caring for him more, and near the end we see that Elie takes care of his father like his father had for Elie by making sure all his needs are taken care of. “ Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander ” (Yehuda Bauer- Holocaust Historian). ![]()
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