How Does Elie Deal With His Father's Death

The novel “Night” tells the story of Elie and his family in World War II. The family get separated and Elie is only left with his father. The reason Elie is affected so deeply by his father’s death is because his father is all he has left and he broke his promise to not follow the actions of the Rabbi’s son.
In “Night” it shows through all the hardships Elie had face the only person that kept him going was his father ,because he is all he had left. For example, the family had a total of three chances to escape ,but didn’t due to the father’s role in the community. The consequence of this is that his family and numerous others are sent to the concentration camps. This effected into the separation between men and women, and is the last time young Elie will ever see his mother and his little sister ,Tzipora. This resulted in Elie not wanting to lose his father ,for he had lost all of his sisters and his mother. When Elie's father dies, Elie had no one and nothing left; all he

cared for was food and work that’s what his world revolved around.
In addition, he felt like he broke a promise he made to himself to always be there for his father and not be like all the other who thought they were dead weight.

For example, in one of the cattle car rides in between camps, workers were throwing pieces of bread into the karts for amusement. The consequence of this is that the Jews began fighting each other for the few crumbs. This effect one elder jew to sneak into the fighting to snatch a two pieces one for him and one for his son, however he is attacked and killed by his own son for the food and is only a few seconds after that killed by onlookers for the food. The results in Elie promising to himself to never be like that and to take care of his father, however he later on when his father gets sick he thinks it better if he were to die so he can focus on his own survival. He then feels ashamed for thinking so and those are some of the last thoughts he has about his father before his dismissal and is affected even greatly because of

that.
In conclusion, with all of the starvation and torture that has happened to Elie the one person who has kept him going had been his father and his death was what broke Elie into not caring for himself and made his life only focus on food and work.