Eliezer's Survival: A Transformation of Father-Son Bonds

Fear, hunger, and sadness, that was what the Jews had to experience. Especially a fifteen-year boy, it wasn’t easy to survive at that time. Everything can change in a day, first you have everything, and then nothing. The fifteen-year kid was Eliezer, someone that has to survive with his father in a concentration camp without any experience. It’s hard you survive, especially when you don’t have a good relationship with your dad, but you have to be with him and survive with him. They don’t have a good relationship, but as I sad, everything can change. After problems, conflicts and many things, Elie shows how the son bonds change through the book. Elie’s relationship with his dad was very different, their relationship changed because Concentration

“My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. He 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” (Wiesel 4). Elie’s father was more involved into other people’s problems instead of his own. He even spent more time with other people, that’s why Elie didn’t have a good relationship with his dad. He didn’t spend too much time with his dad, they didn’t talk about Elie’s problems. Being in a concentration camp with his dad made change his relationship.
Elie shows son bonds through the book by dynamic character, by seeing how different he was. Elie shows that his relationship changed from before and the relationship they have now. When they were at the concentration at the selections Elie said “We didn’t know, as yet, which was the better side, right or left, which road led to prison and which to the crematoria. Still, I was happy, I was near my father” (Wiesel 32). Elie doesn’t know if he was going to die or to live, but he was just happy because he was near his father. He is starting to have a good relationship with his dad, because he wants to be next to

He had to survive with him, it had to be difficult if they did not have a really good relationship. But through the book and being in a concentration camp changed them. They became closer in the concentration camp, because they were trying to take care of each other and to survive. It is sad to have a bad relationship with someone that you love. Elie had to become closer with his dad at the concentration camp, it didn’t have to be like that if he was a 15 years 0ld. You don’t have to wait until something bad happens to tell someone that you care about them. You can be with them without being in a bad moment of your life, you can just be with them in every moment of their