Monday, July 27, 2009
Father-Son Relationship
In the concluding pages of Night, Eliezer’s father is dying a slow, painful death in Buchenwald. But Eliezer is there to comfort him, or at least to try. Does Eliezer see his father as a burden by this point, or does he feel only pity and sorrow for him? Compare and contrast the father-son relationship you see at the end of this memoir with the one you saw at the beginning.
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In the beginning of the book Eliezer counted on his father for things. He expected him to be there and take care of him, he also counted on him to take care of the community. Eliezer's father was a person that you could look up to and you could count on him for the things you needed most. At the concentration camp Eliezer was lucky to have his dad there and survive for that long. He counted on his father to always be there when he was little, but a lot of things changed. Eliezer was no longer the little boy who looked up to his father. he didn't only lose his faith he also lost his heart. Caring for his father when he was sick was like dragging a bag up a hill. The day when he stopped caring for his father and let the guard beat him was the day that he let go of the bag.
ReplyDeleteIn the begining the boy was very close to his dad and promised himself that he would not let his dad go. Eliezer counted in his dad to give him strength. But then at the ending of the book eliezer started to think that he didnt want his dad around because he was becoming to much to worry about. But he still took care of his father when he became sick.
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ReplyDeleteIn the beginning of "Night" Elizer had a stronger relationship with his father than the rest of the family. Elizer depended on his father to take care of him as well as the community. Elizer father was always there for him he was like his right hand.As Elizer once said in the novel that the only thing that stopped Elizer from dying was his fathers perseverance he knew that he could not let his father go they supported each other. I think there were moments that Elizer sometimes saw his father has a burden and pity and it was also hard for ELizer to know what to do at this point. Throughout the book you can feel the love and care Elizer had for his father he sacrificed it for his own safety.But the holocaust turned Elizer world upside down once his father died, Elizer felt guilt and sadness for his father's death.I also agree with christelle he always counted on his father and it must of have been hard to let go of his father and that he did not only loose his father but his heart, who made him complete.But the day that he stooped caring for his father was when the guard told him to let go of his father that he had to do it for his own good and ELizer was looking for his father. Elizer is such a strong person for doing that because i will not have the strength the courage to do that the way Elizer did it.
I think that in the beginning of Night, Elizer did count on his father for many things. As the head of the family, as everyone has said, taking care of the family, buying food, looking after them. But I do not agree with everyone else that is saying that he had a stable relationship with his father in the start. He even says in the beginning that his father was not the type to show much emotion. With that reason, I think that their relationship lacked a lot of emotional display which in my opinion is a big foundation in a parent to child relationship. Towards the middle and the end, Elizer saw his father reveal emotions and seeing how they were the only ones that they had for each other, they built some sort of Father-Son relationship. Although in the end, as Kaira said, he did begin to second guess the idea of taking after his father since his father's life was already on a very thin thread and close to being lost. The day that the gaurd had forced Elizer to cut his father loose was the day that his father died, which is also the exact moment where he stopped looking after him. So in conclusion, it is obvious that they had a much stronger relationship in the end because of the emotional attachment he had with his father right until his father passed.
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ReplyDeleteAt the beginning of ¨Night¨ Elizer counted alot on is father, Elizer expected his father to be there for him. This was one of the best relationships in the family, they were the closes. It had a couples of ups and downs, but it was pretty thight. To Elizer, his father was like the only person he could count on to take care of him and the community. Throughout the whole book, there was always momments when Elizer saw his father as burden and pitty. Elizer was very lucky to have his loving and caring father with him at concentration camp. This also started to become really hard for Elizer to have him there. The reason why was becuase after awhile at concentration camp, Elizer´s father started to get sick, and it started to become really difficult for Elizer to take care of him. It must of been really sad to see the only person you really love and can care for starts to slowly die and suffer. The day Elizer let his dad get beat by a guard was the day he let his heart sink to the floor, and let the one person he most counted on. To my opoinion this was a good thing that Elizer did becuase he alreay saw his father go through too much pain at the concentration camp, and it was getting really hard for Elizer to take care of his father. It was also hard for him to see his father loose his life, little by little. With that said I agree with Kaira and Aurialis, he did not really regret letting his dads life go away becuase he father was already sick enough and he was not really living, he was more like suffuring. So, to end this all, throughout the book, Elizer felt pitty and burden, but at the end his heart, loved one, and protecter had left his life.
In the beginning of the book, Elizer saw his father as the leader of the family. He was the one that kept the family together and making sure the family was taken care of. But when Elizer and his father were first put together in the camp and departed from his mother and younger sister, Elizer promised to stick by his father and he would stay with him. But when his father started getting old and sick, he started worrying about him dying.So he stopped caring for him becuase he knew he had to go at some point. He let the guards beat his father and take him away and that was the day he had to let go of him.
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ReplyDeleteAt first Eliezer is attached to his dad and had to always to to his dad because he was scared and his dad was like his protecter and his provider when he need things throughout the story.I think he felt both sorrow and that his dad was a burden also. First because he would have to give some of his food to his father and has to help him to get better and always had to go looking for him and help him keep up with the others and Eliezer couldn't handle that. On the other hand that was his father and he loved him deeply and he wanted him to live ,but he was a great burden.Eliezer learned to be on his own and provide for himself. The relationship at the beginning was more loving and tighter , but when his father began to be a burden things started departing his still loved his father, but it wasn't as close as the beginning.
Rosaurys
ReplyDeleteAt the beggining of the book, I would'nt say that Elizer was close to his father but he looked up to him. I would have also looked up to my father if he was important to the jewish community. But as they got into the concertration camps and they were separated from their sister and mother, Elizer stayed very close to his father and always by his side. Moving troughout the concertration camps and the father got sick and old, Elizer knew that his father was in great risk of being killed by the Germans.He cared bout his father alot but there nothing that he could really do.Elizer father was becoming a burden as Nataly said because he had too much to worry about and on top of that he had to worry about himself too. Also as i read throught the pages i noticed that the family roles had changed. Elizer had become the father and his father was the son.
I agree with Autumn but i dissagree when she said that Elizer didnt care about his father. Elizer cared alot and especially afther the doctor check-up and his father had to stay behind. At that very moment he felt that he was going to lose his only family that could've been left.
It's a good share about father and son,..
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