Fatherhood In Elie Wiesel's Night

“My father was crying. It was the first time I saw my father cry. I had never thought it possible.” (Wiesel 19) A father for most is a symbol of protection and masculinity, yet oftentimes in society vulnerability is not found to be in association with fatherhood. Elie Wiesel was born on September 30th, 1928 in Sighet, Romania, to Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel. Elie was one of four children, his parents only son. In 1944, at age 15, the Nazi party invades the Wiesel’s small town of Sighet, initially coming across as mild tempered with no ill intentions. The town of Sighet quickly learns the Nazi party was anything but mild tempered as they find themselves forcibly giving up their possessions and moving into fenced in ghettos, days later only

By the end of World War II and the liberation of Buchenwald, where Elie and his father were being held, Elie believed himself to be the only remaining member of his family. He would later find that notion to be untrue, as he would eventually reunite with his two oldest sisters, Beatrice and Hilda, at a French Orphanage. Elie Wiesel wrote a memoir depicting his time in the concentration camps, in which he called Night. In contrast, Roberto Benigni is an Italian born actor and director, who never set foot in a concentration camp but instead is most famous for his 1997 tragicomedy Life is

Life is Beautiful depicts the story of a man so devoted to his son and the conservation of his son’s innocence that he turns their stay in a concentration camp into a complex game, where they must perform assignments in order to earn points and win the first place prize of a real operating tank. Throughout the entirety of both Wiesel’s memoir and Benigni’s film, the relationship between father and son displays how boundless the love of a parent is. By contrast, the absence of religion in Life is Beautiful and the unrelenting revival of the theme of religion in Night allows for the character development, and the overall mood of both works to differ greatly. FIGURE OUT YOUR THESIS !

The relationship between parent and child is one that knows many hardships, but also is full of love and sacrifice, as seen in both Life is Beautiful and Night . The relationship between father and son is an ever changing one, but is overall crucial in the general development of a boy into a man. Elie recalls