Anthony Cacia Opperman/Mosely CP English II 12 April 2024 Exploring Father-Son Relationship throughout Night and Mississippi Trial, 1955 “It’s a big time in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I’m a work in progress; I have revelations every day.” -Rick Rubin. Themes can give the reader an idea or prediction ahead of reading a story, also they are key things since it can create ideas, and thoughts about the story and we can see some themes are happy, sad, aggressive, inspiring, eventful, etc. In Ellie Wiesel’s Night and Chris Crowe’s Mississippi Trial, 1955, the theme of father-son relationships is used to show...the human within the characters and to show how the characters adapt over time and also adapt to their environment …show more content…
In Elie Wiesel’s Night, we see young Elie in the midst of the Second World War, and he shares his experiences of when the liquidations and riots happened, and how his father was headstrong in not losing hope and keeping faith that they would make it out of this situation. We see towards the end his father begins to slowly die as he gets weaker and weaker everyday and not losing hope and Elie begins to become the man taking care of his own father not wanting to lose him he keeps hope and faith that he and his father will make it through. In Chris Crowe’s we see Hiram Hillburn leave Mississippi by his father’s request and they move to Arizona away from Mississippi and it causes Hiram to resent his father since his father begins to preach to him about not being racist and to respect colored people and not give into southern values, they go head to head for a while but when his grandfather contracts diabetes and suffers a stroke, he goes back but it is different than the last time he was there and now he faces a tough decision since he witnessed what his father was trying to do to the people of the state keep him away from and now he then begins to think like his father since he knows it is wrong what he saw and now he is turning into his dad and when he witnessed the trial of Emmit Till he then goes back to Arizona and him and his father have a moment and when Hiram begins to talk about grandpa his dad says “I wasn't talking about grandpa.” saying he wants to forget what happened and focus on Hiram being happy and knowing this is what the South was really like at the time and why he wanted to be a part of it to keep him from
In both of these accounts, the people are young when they are sent away to an unknown place with no idea what is going on. Both are stripped of their freedom and their rights without any say and are forced to live in a camp and give up everything they own. In Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne described this scene as such, “About all he [her father] had left at this point was his tremendous dignity...and he would not let those deputies push him out the door. He led them.” (Wakatsuki). This is a significant quote out of the book because after everything, Ko will not let go of his pride and dignity and stands for what he believes in. Elie Wiesel and Jeanne Wakatsuki are both different from most other people and that is why they are similar. Elie feels alone a lot since he and his father have to work in the camp so he doesn’t get the attention that every child needs. Jeanne’s parents are always busy with something else and she is the youngest of their children so they don’t have much time for her either. Neither of them had a normal childhood or upbringing and turned out different than what they would’ve been, had not these hardships fallen on
“My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me. He was running next to me, out of breath, out of strength, desperate. I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his sole support.” This quote from the book night represents the father son relationship in the book written by Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel was a famous writer and a Holocaust survivor. He wrote many nonfiction books, and night being one of his most successful. Through this book, Elie Wiesel indicated that when night came bad things happened. Elie, a young Jewish boy, and his family were forced into small ghettos by Nazis during World War II. Elie and his family later departed to the unknown were the Nazis sent them to a concentration camp in Auschwitz.
In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, a bunch of relationships change dramatically according to Elie. This novel shows many changes with people that really affects the story. His relationship with with his father is the biggest change of all. It can be seen from the beginning to the end. Elie’s relationship with God changes as well. He had strong faith in God but yet as the story goes on, the camp starts to affect him and slowly loses faith. Another is the relationship with his friends. As the the story progresses, he slowly grows apart. He became more more independent except for being with his father.
One rhetorical feature that Elie Wiesel uses effectively is pathos. By including the story of the young boy and his journey, the audience gets a sense of somberness about the events that took place and the situations the Jews were put into. When the young boy says, “Tell me, what have you done with my future? What have you done with your life?” he is questioning Wiesel about the impact he has made in the world. Those questions make the audience wonder what they have done to help the oppressed and all those who have perished. This part of the speech makes the audience feel a sense of grief so strong, that they are moved to help him in his fight against the people who have forgotten and the people who have stayed silent.
In his memoir, Night, author Elie Wiesel describes the horrors he experienced during the Holocaust. One prominent theme throughout the work is the evolution of human relationships within the camp, specifically between fathers and sons. While they are marching between camps, Elie speaks briefly with Rabbi Eliahu, who lost sight of his son on the long journey. Elie says he has not seen the rabbi’s son, but after Rabbi Eliahu leaves, he remembers seeing the son. He realizes that the rabbi’s son did not lose track of his father but instead purposefully ran ahead thinking it would increase his chances of survival. Elie, who has abandoned nearly all of his faith in God, cannot help but pray, saying, “ ‘ Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu’s son has done’ ” (Wiesel 91). In this moment, his most fervent hope is that he will remain loyal to his father and not let his selfishness overcome his dedication to his father. However, he is soon no longer able to maintain this hope.
In Eliezer Wiesel’s novel “Night”, it depicts the life of a father and son going through the concentration camp of World War II. Both Eliezer and his father are taken from their home, where they would experience inhuman and harsh conditions in the camps. The harsh conditions caused Eliezer and his father’s relationship to change. During their time in the camps, Eliezer Wiesel and his father experience a reversal of their roles. Upon entering the concentration camps, Eliezer and his father demonstrate a normal father and son relationship.
In his novel Night, Elie Wiesel shows the importance of family as a source of strength to carry on. The main character of the novel is a thirteen-year-old boy named Eliezer. He and his family were taken from their home and placed in a concentration camp. He was separated from his mother and sisters during the selection once they arrived in the camp. His father was the only family he had left with him to face the inhumane environment of the camp. Many of the prisoners lost the will to live due to the conditions. During the marches between camps some of these broken souls would drop to the side of the road where they we...
The autobiography Night by Elie Wiesel contains similarities to A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. These works are similar through the struggles that the main characters must face. The main characters, Elie Wiesel and Lieutenant Frederic Henry, both face complete alterations of personality. The struggles of life make a person stronger, yet significantly altering identity to the point where it no longer exists. This identity can be lost through extreme devotion, new experience, and immense tragedy.
Change is an unpredictable and inevitable thing. One cannot know what alteration it may bring but it can, without doubt, be expected said Hazel M, an Honor English student (par.1). Eliezer, the protagonist in Night, encounters change numerous times. One of the mainly considerable changes he comes across, while in the concentration camps, is that of his relationship with his father. Before the Holocaust, Eliezer’s relation with his father was very distant, I will say non existent. Throughout the novel, enormous remarkable changes occurred in the father son relationship between Eliezer’s and his father. To highlight a few, we will discuss Eliezer and his father’s emotional change, the connection between them as father and son, and how their build trust in their relationship. Eliezer’s relationship with his father is quite important as it allows them both to live through the anguish and despair brought upon them. And their love for each other helped them both stay alive during the course of torture that Jews people were put through.
Before Elie Wiesel and his father are deported, they do not have a significant relationship. They simply acknowledge each other’s existence and that is all. Wiesel recalls how his father rarely shows emotion while he was living in Sighet, Transylvania. When they are deported, Wiesel is not sure what to expect. He explains, “My hand shifted on my father’s arm. I had one thought-not to lose him. Not to be left alone” (Wiesel 27). Once he and his father arrive at Auschwitz, the boy who has never felt a close connection with his father abruptly realizes that he cannot lose him, no matter what. This realization is something that will impact Wiesel for the rest of his time at the camp.
‘Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu’s son has done’” (Wiesel 91). The topic of a father and son relationship is extremely personal to Wiesel, which makes him hark back to how he was raised: religiously. Though clouded with a sense of reality from his experience in the camps, Wiesel still has hints of hope in his view of the world from his upbringing in Sighet. Thus, our upbringing affects much of the way we see the
In the book Night, Elie’s father was very ill and he desperately needs help from his son. His father asked for water and wanted to talk with his son, but Elie refused to talk with him and give him some water. Also, he remained calm when his father was harassed by the guards. In the book, Elie said “Then I had to go to sleep”(Wiesel 112) and after his father’s death, the thing he said wasn’t about his sadness. It was about his freedom. He said, “Free at last”(Wiesel 112). Elie is not the old Elie anymore. Because of the circumstance of the camp, the pure and caring boy changed into a boy with an empty heart. Elie says “Since father's death, nothing mattered to me anymore”(Wiesel 113). His heart that was filled with joy and caring
Wiesel, in essence, is now the same as Moshe the Beadle, one of the first Jewish deportees and the only one to return to the city to warn others. “He told his story and that of his companions," (page 4, 5th paragraph). Elie has become Moshe. He tells his story, not for himself, for he has already experienced the horrors, but to make sure that people are aware of what has happened, and so that it never happens again. The mood of night is harder to interpret.
Elie’s decisions and their consequences. Elie is a negative and a hateful person, Elie Wiesel is a young Jewish boy who grows up in a peaceful town but soon is forced into a death camp as the Nazis capture his town and family. Elie is forced to make worse and worse decisions as he tries his hardest to survive the camps, in Night Elie tells his story. In Night by Elie Wiesel, the young boy Elie is forced to make decisions that lead to them having a negative impact on him. Elie often contemplates leaving people or just killing himself as he continues to make decisions that lead to worse and worse predicaments throughout his sojourn in the Nazi death camps which lead to him becoming negative and hateful.
When people are placed in difficult, desolate situations, they often change in a substantial way. In Night by Elie Wiesel, the protagonist, Elie, is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he undergoes many devastating experiences. Due to these traumatic events, Elie changes drastically, losing his passion in God, becoming disconnected with his father, and maturing when it matters most.