Part 1
Theme and Character Analysis--
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1.) What is "theme" in terms of literature? What is a major theme of Night and how has it been discussed so far? Properly cite at least one quote to support your answers.
2.) Explain the evolution of Elie's relationship with his father throughout chapters 1 through 6. What do you think about Elie and his father?
Part 2
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ReplyDeleteElie's relationship with his father starts out as distant, when they are still in town. When they reach the first camp, thats when they start to get closer. Elie is separated from his mother and has only his father left. Over the course of two to three years, he tries to protect his father because he didn't want to be alone. Seeing a father looking for his son, and yet not telling him that his son had fallen to his death made Elie want to not have the strength to abandon his father. Eventually, his father didn't have the strength to continue, and when he called out for his son, there was no comfort, and the guards beat him to death. Elie may have loved his father, but he knew he wouldn't be able to survive himself if he had gone to his fathers side that night.
ReplyDeletethe theme of this literature is looking for help that may never get to them. "for God's sake, where is God?".(wiesel) these people wonder everyday where is their god they had so much faith in. they would praise him day and night and still no answer from god they begun to lose their faith. so looking for god to save them would be the theme.it has been discussed through out story that they stared out with faith, but as the days went by and the nights got longer and colder they star to think a differnt way. they changed into the mind state of survival. to do all things neccessary to live another day even if that meant to kill one of your fellow men.
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ReplyDeleteDuring the first part of the book "night" Elie and his father were distant. His father said,"you are to younge for that." This was said when elie asked to find him a teacher.Eleie realized that his father was all he had.But throughout the story while they were in the camp together they became closer to one another. Me personally I think that the theme of the story is knowing how it is going to end a coping with that. I think this because they know deep down that they are going to die its just a question of when, and their attempts to block that part out and hope that they will get out alive.
response to mary i do agree because wiesel distant from his father at first,but then he started to get scared and came to realize that he and his father may not make it out of there alive. so his love and appreciation for his fathter grew tremendously. so when his father was getting his brains beat out he did nothing,but sit there just so he could live another day.
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ReplyDeleteI am responding to Mary ferguson:
Your thought of the theme of the story is really truthfull and most people will agree with you theme responce.I think that the way so said how he didnt want to abandon his father was really good. Elie would of been killed is he would of went to his fathers side on that night and I thought that is was pretty nifty that you added that to show how it was beck then and the difficulties they went through.
Theme, according to elook.org, a is unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work. The major theme of Night is what people must do to survive. The people in the concentration camp would do anything to survive from helping the people in charge of the camp to get into good Kommando to betraying others to get more food. When a relative of Wiesel, Stein, said when tears roll down his cheek to his Wiesel's dad: "Take care of your son. He is very weak, very dehydrated. Take care of yourselves, you must avoid selection. Eat! Anything, anytime. Eat all you can. The weak don't last very long around here...(45)"
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What is Theme? according to (http://www.learner.org) "The theme of a fable is its moral. The theme of a parable is its teaching. The theme of a piece of fiction is its view about life and how people behave". Elie's relationship with his father i think is very stong. when the kid ask him for his shoes to put him into a good Kommando he said no he wants to stay with his father.
ReplyDeleteTravis Hale-- The relationship with Elie's father in town before the are moved to extermanation camps is just like a normal father and son, distant. Once there are moved to Auschwitz they become close by the "separation" of his mother and sister. He started to see his father isnt as stone cold as he thought and had feelings like any other person. Later on his father is more easily tired because of his age. The thought passes his mind of abandoning his father, a thought which he will always regret. As his father becomes more and more tired something changes. Instead of Elie relying on his father, his father now relyed on his sons strenth. This hurt Elie very much to see his father in such a state, but out of the love to his father he did all he could to help.
ReplyDeleteto my post please excuse spelling errors- i typed it fast.
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ReplyDeletePatrick Lewis-I think his relationship with his father stands out. It starts off with him letting his father get beat and his father calling his name. It wasn't like it was something he had planned out he just didn't want to get beat either. There was that second time when his father was slapped and Elie did nothing again. He wanted to but he couldn't. I think there relationship feeds off there love. They want to stay with each other no matter what. They go though this hard time but with each other they don't get bitter they just get better. Reading this book it’s almost like you can feel the anger Elie has but his father tries to be so humble and calm about the situation. There is nothing he can really do anyway because at this point he loses if he fights back. They have to be with each other because they are all they have.
ReplyDeleteZaire Worrell-The theme of a piece of fiction is its view about life and how people behave.("literature analying theme")With the story it has many of themes that are happening with in the story. that you will have to do what ever to survive at he camps. wanting to make your self look better in the person who is in changed. knowing that you must do anything to stay a live for one more day.the major and what the story is going for the theme is that it is all about the "survival of the fittest".
ReplyDeleteDanielle Slade--
ReplyDeleteThroughout chapters 1 and 6 Elie's relationship with his father grew when they were sent off to concentration camps and were separated from his mother and sister. In the beginning however, their relationship wasn't as strong, because their main focuses were on their religious studies. But when they only had eachother in the camps, they were willing to do anything to keep them together, especially Elie. Elie's main focus while he was in the camps, was making sure his father was safe. But as time went on Elie began to realize that it was every man for himself, and that taking care of his father was now putting himself in danger. I think that Elie and his fathers relationship towards each other was a typical one for those who were in concentration camps. Elie talked about how many sons were abandoning their own fathers because they knew that they themselves may have a chance to survive, if they were to get rid of the extra baggage.
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ReplyDeleteJackie Blesoch-To me the theme in literature, is the whole point of the story or the reason why the book was written. The major theme of Night, is what happens when you get in something terrible, and what menkind will do to survive. The definition that I liked most about survival is to live on or endure. The people that survived the Holocaust had to endure what happened in the camps as well as afterwards. They had to put up with the brutality that was given from the SS soldiers and team leaders. They were starved and people were doing anything they can to survive. The prisoners had to go threw a lot and what they were able to get their hands on they traded to live. In the end all that mattered is their lives and living to see the next day.
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ReplyDeleteFrom the quote, what Stein means is that to use every moment to stay alive.
response to Travis: I completely agree with your wording, seeing as it is extremely sad to read or even see that a father should rely on his son to make it through something. It's heartbreaking to know that this is all from true occurences too. How Elie had to protect his father from the gravediggers on the train, and how he kept his father from eternal sleep when the camp was evacuated shows that Elie truly cared for his father, enough to try to save his life. And when that night finally came, Elie knew he had to stay silent, to let his father go so that he could suffer no more.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with what you said about the theme. Most of the Jews in the camps were asking why that God is not helping them. Once they believe their god forgot about them, they lost hope and began to go "survival of the fittest" during the concentration camps to survive. You showed that you understand what theme is and found a good example in the story. But you forgot to put what the meaning of theme is. And would it kill you if you capitalize some words when you start a new sentence?
In "Night", Weisel had a very distant relationship with his father before the concentration camps. “He must of have barely known him, always being up to his neck in communal affairs and not knowledgeable in family matters. He was always elsewhere, lost in thought”(Wielsel 43). This changes significantly throughout their indevours. They start to become close, like a father and son should be. even without Weisels mom and sister, they became, a family.
ReplyDelete"Night" At the begining of the book Weisel had a distant relationship with his father until the moment that they were told they had to leave to A Conventration camp. even though that there family was torn apart from when they had to leave to different camps at that moment Weisel started a family with his dad from that moment. Weisel and his father are just like me and my dad. but he see's his everyday. they love each other but dont talk much. and they are willing to do anything to stay together now seeing that they are at the same camps. they have grown very close to each other. and now they are inseprable.. (sorry cant spell)
ReplyDeleteThe major theme of the book Night was bout the darkness of auschwits,and the cruel and evilness it has implamented on the jewish race.One of the major aspects of the story Wiesel portrays, Is lonelyness the charecter in the story is afraid to be alone."My hand tightened its grip on my father all I could think of was not to lose him, not to reamian alone"(Wiesel 30).
ReplyDeleteHis mind set is that everyone who he cares about is getting taken away and he will eventually be alone.
From Chapter 1 to 6 in Elie Weisel's book "Night", Elie's relationship with his father changes and molds into much more in a three year span during the Holocaust. In the beginning, back in the setting of Sighet, Elie's father was a much more distant man. Often times more concerned with the affairs of other people than his own family's, his father's and his bond was weak and seemed only existant by way of Elie being his son. As the book progresses and they arrive in Birkenau, where they are separated from Elie's mother and sisters, their relationship appears to grow out of fear of becoming separated from each other. They are the last living relatives of their family (as far as they know), and in that knowledge brings a sense of determination to stick together. However, fear does not only motivate them to avoid separation, but at times of peril turn their backs on each other. For example, when Elie's father has a colic attack and asks the Kapo where the restroom is, only to be slapped across the face and sent crawling back to his designated spot, Elie, who admits to himself that had it been different circumstances he would have "clawed this man's skin off" for slapping his father, sits there unmoved by what has just occured. Elie curses the Kapo for forcing on him such primitive instincts, and seeing the anger in Elie's eyes his father tells him "It doesn't hurt". Later in the book Elie's father will call to him as he dies, only to anger the SS officer who is beating him further, and Elie will remain motionless, angry at his FATHER for angering the SS officer in the first place, and will refuse to come to his father's side out of fear of receiving a beating himself. My personal belief of Elie and his father is that had they both survived the Holocaust together their bond would have grown tremendously from the time they left Sighet to present, and that the harshness they'd shown each other in times of despair would all be forgiven. At this point in the book (Chapter 6), however, i sense that while their bond is stronger than that of back in Sighet, it is weakened by the surrounding conditions that force them to betray each other out of fear for their lives. I believe moreso that it is Elie (or rather more instances shown where it is Elie), that participates in the "backstabbing" more. Throughout the book there is very little instances that describe a time when Elie's father demonstrates such ficklety.
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ReplyDeleteIn response to Spring: I agree with your meaning of the theme. I think that in the beginning all the people, especially Elie,viewed and believed that God was always around them and was keeping them safe. However, as time went by and they were sent to the camps, I think they still believed in his essence, but their belief that he would keep them safe and protect them was fading. Elie especially believed this because he stopped reciting his prayers and often questioned why it was they praised someone who didn't seem to care about them.
Travis Hale- in response to some themes ive read that people have been posting i recived a differnt message from Night. To me the theme of this book was Mans relationship with God and it also was a great example of the innocent bystander effect. It talked about how God just an innocent bystander in the slautering of millions of Jews. No matter how much the worshiped and praised his name there was still no reply. Many of them thought they were being tested by God. In the end it seemed that Elie was still angry at God, and wouldnt justify the incedent as a "test of faith".
ReplyDeletePatick Lewis- In response to Mike Thayer: I disagree with Mike on his response. Elie and his father were with eachother all the time. They were all eachother had. Everytime something bad happened to his dad he filled up with so much anger and that shows he cares. When they moved camps he made sure that he was with his dad. If you are talking about mentally distant then i still don't agree because im sure his father was mad too he just knew he couldn't show it. There life depended on it.
ReplyDeleteIn response to BB Holden: You say that "Weisel had a distant relationship with his father until the moment that they were told they had to leave to A cc camp. that isnt true at all. he had a good relationship with his dad. he asked his dad to teach him and his dad said not tell he was 30. i think that he had a good relationship.
ReplyDeletein response to mary,I think the relationships between father and son will always have their ups and their downs,but you don't really know what you have till everything you have has been taking away from you and you're left with nothing.That's when you really know what you have and you will do anything to protect it from any danger.As the story goes on the two relize that if they don't watch eachother's back they both will be killed by morning.
ReplyDeletetheme is a word or phrase in a sentence, usually providing information from previous discourse or shared knowledge, that the rest of the sentence elaborates or comments on,according to dictionary.com.i think the theme of the book is what has gone on inside and doutside of the camps to the people involded in all of the killings to survive in the camps,because everybody didn't want to be separted from their love ones that they may not be able to see ever again.When a relative of Wiesel, Stein, said to his Wiesel's dad: "Take care of your son. He is very weak, very dehydrated. Take care of yourselves, you must avoid selection. Eat! Anything, anytime. Eat all you can. The weak don't last very long around here...(45)".
ReplyDeleteTo add on to me response. in the book after they moved to the CC camp. he asked for a Kommando that will let him stay close with his father. i think that Weisel had a very strong and close relatinship.
ReplyDeletejackie Blesoch, 2nd part of the post-Elie and his father were not so close, in the beginning of the book. They had their own agenda and followed threw with it, they got along and did what Jewish men were suppose to do. Elie studied and his father was working, Elie was his father’s only son. He tried to protect his father from the evil in the Holocaust. His father was always trying to make sure that Elie did not do things that were going to anger the SS men or the block leader. They still got along and Elie always made sure that his father was all right and would help him when he could. I think that Elie was a good son and that he and his father tried to do all they could to stay with each other because they were all that they had left. His father was still keeping both their faith in God, because Elie did not believe anymore, so he believed for both of them. His father really cared for him and did not want to see his only son die like everyone else.
ReplyDeleteExplain the evolution of Elie's relationship with his father throughout chapters 1 through 6. What do you think about Elie and his father?
ReplyDeleteArely says :During chapter 1, I believe Elie’s and this father had a typical father and son relationship because his father was never around. For an example “He must of have barely known him, always being up to his neck in communal affairs and not knowledgeable in family matters. He was always elsewhere, lost in thought”(Wielsel 43). This made me believe that Elie loved his father but in way that they weren’t so close to each other. In chapter 3, Elie and his father were beginning to realize that they were the only last strip of hope they had to survive. “I squeezed my father’s hand” (Wielsel 34) this shows that they are beginning to make a firmer relationship. Soon after in chapter 6, Elie realizes that it was a fight for survival and he had to watch out for himself. When his father was calling out for him in a way that he could feel comfort Elie refused to listen because he knew he would get into big trouble. This show that the firm relationship that Elies and his father when arriving to the concentration camp no longer existed. I think that Elie and his father still had love for each other but Elie knew that he could get killed if he were try to help his father. He was being indifference.
Elie's relationship wit his father is good. His whole family is tight knit. So when him & his father go seperate ways from his mom and sister, he is not only confused; but worried as well. Anyways, as him and his father enter the camps they experience little time together before they are stripped down of their everything. When one of the guards ask their age they are told there that they are younger than they are. and in the middle of one of the line ups, Elie's father needs to go to a bathroom because he is experiencing a colic attack and he is slapped just for stepping out of line, which really saddens him because yet he cannot do anything.
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ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you Jackie. I think that Elie and his father had a very strong bond when they were at the concentration camp because it was all they had left of their family. I feel that it was a bond of strength to push each other forward not to leave one another behind. They kept by each others side as long as they could. So I definitely agree what you said.
In response to Danielle- I do agree with you saying that he cared a lot about his father and did what he could to stay with his father. In chapter 6 when they were running and stopped, the Rabbi came to ask to see if they had seen his son and Elie forgot that he had seen him. He saw that the Rabbi’s son had seen him and felt him, Elie said, “Oh God, master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu’s son has done” (Wiesel 91). He prayed that he will have the power to overcome his selfishness to survive. He did not want to leave his father even if he knew that he could survive without him. He left the infirmary when he was not even healed yet. Father and son tried to stay together because they were all that they had left, when they walked away from his mother and sister.
ReplyDeleteIN RESPONSE TO PATRICK LEWIS- i very much agree. they have a strong bond between each other. Wanting to help but have no athority too is kind of hurtful. he was (in a way) really juss yurning for his father. but yet couldnt get to him in a way that he would like. so it was in a way uncontrolable.
ReplyDeleteso it was unbaring to really see.
so i like how ya think young blood!
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"For God's sake, where is God?".(wiesel)The theme of this story is a sad on. They need help and they feel like since they are going through such hardship that GOD is not there.
ReplyDeleteElie and his father started out with not such a close relationship. But then as they were taken from their home and stripped of everything they had, then they became a lot closer. They didnt want to be separated in thec camps, so their realtionship grew. “I squeezed my father’s hand” (Wielsel 34) This is showing that their realtionship is getting stronger.
In respnse to Spring A.
ReplyDeleteI feel the same way. They feel as if god has left them or forsaken them. They are in such a mess and they have absolutely no clue why. Elie and his dad grew a lot closer because they know that family is all they have. Without one another then they dont have anything. They need to have faith. But its hard when there are a million things blocking their view.
In terms of literature, a theme is a central idea in a piece of writing or other work of art. The major theme of Night is the test of faith. Wiesel lost his faith in God as he went to different camps because of what he has been seeing around him. He started to belive that God don't exist. "Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?" (Wiesel).
ReplyDeleteWiesel and his father didn't have a close relationship until the incident at the concentration camps. After being separated from his mother and sister, he always kept the close bond with his father. He believed that they needed each other to survive. As his father got weaker, Wiesel tried his best to keep his father alive until he began to see his father as a heavy burden on him. When he lost his father, it didn't matter to him anymore. All he was thinking about was to do what he had to, in order to live.
In response to Johnathan Heimes: BB Holden is right about Elie's distant relationship with his father before they were sent in the concentration camps. In the first chapter, Wiesel stated that his father "rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin."
ReplyDeleteZaire Worrell-"i once saw one of them, a boy of thirteen , beat his father for not making his bed properly."(wiesel pg 63) have for saying that not all will not survival .
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ReplyDeleteBefore Elie and his family faced the tragedies of the concentration camps, his relationship with his father was impersonal rather than intimate. They had a family business ran by the father and the mother, assisted by Elie's two older sisters, Elie was the scholar of the family. Since they did not necessarily depend on each other to survive, life was business as usual and taken for granted. However, after they had become captives of the Nazis, they began to care for each others' "well-being," so to speak, or else they would be out of each others' lives if one died. In chapter five, Elie and his father were in fear of being separated for good when his father would be "selected." Elie's father had ran over to his kommando to give Elie his knife and spoon saying he wouldn't need them anymore, (assuming he was going to be selected) Elie was almost in tears from his father talking like that, showing his grown attachment to his father(Wiesel 75). Through my perspective, it seemed as though Elie saw himself to be stronger than his father such as teaching him how to march and in chapter 6 with such phrases as, "come father" "you first, Father. Sleep" (Wiesel 89). His father had also coached him along the way, "not here... Get up... A little farther down" (Wiesel 88). Elie and his father, through their experiences, had developed a relationship that used to be a distant father-son relationship to more of a comradery... there seemed to be a new kind of love between them. In my own personal opinion, Elie should have more respect for his father, I think he can owe that to the camps for his hardened heart where day upon day he faced death which is very powerful in demoralizing how someone values an individual.
Zaire Worrell-in response to Travis Hale that the book has more the one meaning to theme people might think that it is with god, there faith, or there survival with night the book come off to many of things . but with my understanding that i think that its about the whole survival of the fittest.
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ReplyDeleteSolid view on the tough choices Elie had to make in his situation I want to expand on your thought. Elie cannot fight back because he WILL lose if he does. I think that some of the people did not understand his situation. These hated Jews were not given freedoms... the only freedom they had was to choose whether they were going to persevere and work hard enough to live or choose to give up and die. Elie's father understood what his son had to do, he was not betraying his father if he had to stand by and watch him get beaten it was just what he had to do. To conclude I will say what you said, "they go though this hard time but with each other they don't get bitter they just get better... They have to be with each other because they are all they have" (Young Lewc May 5, 2009 12:12 PM).
Elie Wiesel a young man as it say's in the book within the chapters he was forced to be an age given by the guards, as the it goes on he was seperated from his mom and sister in the beginning of chapter. Throughout the selections 1-6 the relationship that the son (Elie Wiesle) and his father had seem to be distant and fading away they had no connection within each other,but as it came to the concentration camps they fought for each other and tryed to keep one another alive. Throughout the sections sons were changing and started reacting around there fathers, As it said the book the son was treating his father with disrespect just because he didnt fix his bed the correct way. Also it was hard for them to listen to other people rather than the guards! the had no choice but to keep silent and save your own self. Every man for themself
ReplyDeleteThe Theme of this book in my own words is the faith they have with god. The chance they might have getting saved from the suffering the belief and the praise the give him, as for wiesel he didnt have hope he knew that this god wasnt going to do anything. (Wisel 33) Elie said to his father "If this is true, then i dont want to wait. ill run into eledtred barbed wires. That would be easier than slow death in the flames" so he really didnt want to die slowly, but at least a quick death.
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ReplyDeleteI can agree with john he makes good sense as he explains the theme.The major theme of the book is about darkness of auschwits,and the cruel and evilness it has implamented on the jewish race. He makes a good point in explaining why he said that and the right type of explanation.In the book it is really about discrimination and how the different race of jewish people effected the whole population so i cant relate to what he had to say :) Very nice
Brady S.
ReplyDeleteI think the theme was about him growing as a person. In the begining of the story, he was a very religious person. Always wanted to learn from the Kabbalah but his father said he was too young to learn, yet Moishe the Beadle took him under. When he was sent to the concentration camps, he lost all religious beliefs.
"Blessed be God's name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves?" (Wiesel 67)
While he was losing his faith in God, he was growing closer to his father. In the begining there was no real "relationship" with him. As they get seperated from the rest of their family, they realize that they need eachother to survive. They depend on eachother to get through until the end, where Elie realizes that he can no longer relie on his father anymore to survive. I am glad they grew together, It's something I wish could have happened between mine and me.
Elie projects the theme to be, in my opinion, the book title itself. Night. I know that this is just an articulation of the book title, but the word Night defines many instances in the book just as a general term. It could explain many of the events that had occurred by a mutual understanding. And like Elie suggested, 'Would they at least understand?'
ReplyDeleteThey, meaning us. And that was his main purpose of writing. How could we understand something that is so ineffable? He did go on to tell that out of all his attempts to articulate the unspeakable, 'it' was still not right. Those who did not experience, would never understand.
'After all, it deals with an event that sprang from the darkest zone of man (ix)' You can clearly see, that he acknowledges that "darkest zone of man" is abstruse.
So there is every reason to think, the theme of Night is night. The word can be abstractly defined as, 'Hunger—thirst—fear—transport—selection—fire—chimney (ix)'.
There's two things to consider in the story. One of them being, family, and the other being religion. We all have a desirable compassion for the most important things in our life. And for Elie and his father, and many other Jews, they have adoration for both of those. Although, his relationship with his father was distant, at best, he demonstrated quite a difficult approach to their situation.
In the death camps, victims were subjected to separation and isolation. Which in essence, allowed him to become more closer to his father while descending his faith towards religion, or more specifically, God. Because of the suffering the Germans exerted onto them, they constantly felt that since their whole life revolved around God, serving his every whim, praying in the synagogue, neglecting others warnings [moishe the beadle, the interrogating inmate], that the Almighty had not done anything to their current predicament. It only compiled the advent of disbelief.
And in result to this dark theme, Elie begins to dwell away from his father in order to survive, after being so inseparable, so enduring, and acting sort of like a parasite for a brief moment. Of the previous post about indifference, Elie examples indifference
as he witnessed in so many other victims along his way towards Auschwitz: Mrs.Schachter's psychological meltdown. He had to deny his father to live. And his father, undoubtedly understood this measure. We might infer that he accepted his fate as well because he had fulfilled his duty, as it were; keeping his son alive to presevere.
ChristineRosario, I really take interest into what you referenced. "Why would I sanctify his name? The Almighty?" Because it clearly showed the changes throughout Elie's short time of change in Auschwitz. Especially because you included that his father is a "burden". After they kept so much strength to keep each other alive. Which also brings me to your theme. Test of faith. I think that nicely develops Night's central theme.
ReplyDeleteCarissa Cabrera--
ReplyDeleteTheme, according to me, means the topic or main idea that the authors try to get across. When I went to dictionary.com it quoted that the definition of a theme was, "A central idea in a piece of writing or other work of art." But theme in "Night" is how people were treated in the Concentrstion Camps by the SS soldiers and if you could survive or not. Several people were torchered over stupid incidents but some went through it while others died on the spot. One quote from Night is when Weisel heard some noises and peaked around the corner and seen Idek, who is the head leader of that small group, and a young polish girl. He was caught looking at them so Idek said,"You'll pay for this later.." So he did, by getting hit with the lashes of the whip 25 times. He survived it!This just shows how brutal and tough things were in the Concentration Camps.
In responce to Christine--I totally agree with her because in the beginning where they were just going to the camps he did believe that GOD was still there!!But as time went on and people were still suffering in the camps thats when he started to not believe in GOD because he felt that if GOD was there then him and his father would already be out of the concentration camps.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Tina Deasis, you were wrong about Elie, he did have a choice to lie about his age or not. He chose to live and so he lied. He wanted to live and he wasn’t force to lie about his age from the guards, it was from the prisoners. They did fight to stay together, because they were all they had left. He lost his mother and sister when they first entered the camps. Sons started to realize that their fathers were holding them back from surviving so they started to treat them badly. In the end it was all about what would keep them alive, it was every man for them selves. In the book a lot of people lost faith in God, because they felt that he abandoned them. Most lost their faith after the hanging of their angel in the camp of hell. He looked like an angel and was said to be nice and not like other little boys that had power. When asked, ‘where was God?’ others answered that he was hanging with the little angel.
ReplyDeleteThe relationship between Elie and his father is very indifferent and unpredictable. I appreciate his courage and his ability to stand up for what’s right. He and his father tended to have a distance relationship in the beginning. He always wanted more in life than was offered, but his father always felt that he wasn’t ready to fulfill that task. As the story continued his father realized that Elie was the only thing that could keep him strong. With the battle of loosing their family they developed a relationship that would hold them through until the end. The last straw hat they could no longer face together was when it came to his father's health. When they were in the concentration camp their bond was destroyed by fate.
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