There are three clear examples of father and son relationships in Night: Elie and his father, Rabbi Eliahu and his son, and the example of the father and son (Meir) on the train. Compare these three relationships to one another describing each one, and then explain how you (the reader) are impacted by the juxtaposition of these three relationships. What purpose do the other father and son examples have in Wiesel's novel?
The relationship that Elie and his dad have is really close. Elie and his dad are really connected because they are always together in the concentration camp. They both look after each other and both try to survive. The relationship that Rabbi Eliahu and his son had was different than the relationship that Elie and his dad had. Rabbi's son left his dad because he was slowing him down. He didn't want to die so the son left his father. Meri was a father and his son was taken away. He lost hope because he didn't have his son with him. he didn't want to fight any more. he just wanted his son. This shows the Meri loved his son a lot and just wanted to be near him. The purpose of the other father and son examples were because he wanted to show the different relationships that he saw in the holocaust.
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Victor Esteban
11/19/2013 10:41:41 am
Father and son relationship is an important motif, in the book Night. We are able to see many examples of this, throughout the story. This motif is a beautiful topic due to the fact that a father and a son are there to help each other. Just like Elie and his father, which they were always there to support each other and give each other a hand. However not all father and son relationship are good. For example, Rabbi Eliahu and his son, in which his son leaves his father behind during the march, due to the fact that Rabbi was running slowly. Another example, is the old man and his son, Meri, whose father had a piece of bread in which Meri wanted due to the reason that he was hungry. Which then, Meri killed his father to get the bread. As you can see, some father and son relationships could be good but others can be bad. Us as the reader, see this topic with sadness and happiness due to the fact that some fathers and sons would help each other for survival and others would fight for survival.
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Yerlin Lopez
11/19/2013 11:16:14 am
Father and son relationship is an important motif, in the book Night. Elie and his father have a strong relationship they look after each other and protect each other as much as possible.While in the case of Rabbi Eliahu and his son,we read that his son left Rabbi behind because he was too much weight for him.Rabbi really loved his child since he would ask people if they knew anything about his son.Also we see in the case of the old man and his son Meri,that he killed his own father just for a piece of bread even though Meri's father has told him he has bread for him too.These three different Father and son relationship show how the situations the Jewish people had through go through change who they were this impacts the readers because we see all the things Rabbi Eliahu's son and Meri did as cruel but we must understand under what circumstances they did what they did. I think the purpose of the Father and son relationship in the novel was to emphasize what people did for survival.
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Brian Vidal
11/19/2013 12:02:53 pm
An important motif in the story is the one having to do with the father and son relationship. There are 3 main examples that portray this, with the first one being the relationship between Elie and his Father. Both of them have a good relationship because they are always there for one another. They support and motivate each other under any circumstances, whether they are good or bad. An example of a Father & son relationship that isn't so good is the one between Rabbi Eliahu and his son. Their relationship isn't the best because his son ended up leaving him behind, since we has slowing him down. The third example that can portay the motif stated above is the one between Meir and his father. This isn't a good relationship either because Meir ended up killing his father, just so he could get a piece of bread his father had. All of this could've been prevented if Meir would've waited, because that piece of bread was going to be his anyway according to his father. I think the examples are used in Elie Wiesel's novel, because he wanted to show the readers the things he had seen during the holocaust, at the age of 16.
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Alexander Trujillo
11/19/2013 12:23:09 pm
Father and son relationship is an important motif, in the book of Night. The father son relationship between Elie and his father later became strong when they were in the concentration camps. They had to be together to be able to survival the terrible conditions, and obstacles they had to face. The father and son relationship between Rabbi Eliahu and his son were very different between Elie and his father. The son of Rabbi Eliahu is tried leave his father behind, because his son wanted to survival and not die in the cold. Meri and his son seemed to have a great relationship with each other. Meri's son was taken away and it made him sad and hopeless to go on any farther. He didn't want to fight anymore and simply wanted his son back. The purpose of father and son examples were to show the different point of views that each father and son had taken their own paths for survival.
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Ashley Guerrero
11/19/2013 12:39:26 pm
In Section 7 of Night we were often given the theme of a Father and son relationship. It seems that Elie and his father had a more strong relationship than that of when they started. They stayed near each other at all times and actually cared for one another. In contrast the relationship between Rabbi Eliahu and his son was not as strong as Elie's. Rabbi Eliahu's son left his son behind for his own good, this showed that he lacked love towards his own father. Then Meir and his father had the worst father and son relationship, being inpatient can really effect people. These are three examples of the father and son relationships in the book Night.
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Jocelyne Ramirez
11/19/2013 12:45:38 pm
The comparisons of father and son relationships that are expressed in sections 6-7, not only help set up the tone of the book but also helps the readers grasp a better understanding of what Elie is trying to express when it came to the relationship with his father. Elie in this section has such a sorrowful tone, and the fact that he used many father-son-motifs, makes it a harder tone to bear. It is said that father and son relationships are strong bonds, but in this section Elie expresses that some sacrificed their love one for survival, like sons leaving their fathers, giving up on them, and killing them for a piece of bread so they have a chance at living. Or in another case, where fathers are left without a boy because death clutched them and did not let go; these fathers that had to live on without a son. These examples only make Elie's and his father's bond that much more powerful, they are not one without the other, and they stick together like glue. Elie is the son that thinks that if his father ever died, there is nothing else to live for, because his father is the one person that is keeping him afloat, and the only thing that relates to his past life. Elie's father to him is the one sure thing that he could always count on, and that in itself is the most powerful thing he had. To know you have someone beside you that cares for you, is enough to keep you alive even if that means suffering more pain.
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Tania Celestino
11/19/2013 12:51:11 pm
The motif of father and son relationship is very important in the book Night, Eli and his father have a strong relationship. They protect each other from danger and help each other survive. However, Rabbi Eliahu and his son do not have the same type of relationship. His son decided to not help his father and leave him behind but Rabbi Eliahu loved his son because he went around asking for his son. There was also Meri and his father relationship was not good at all, Meri killed his father to get the bread. The purpose of the father and son relationship was to point out the how the people reacted to be able to survive.
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Jonathan Velasco
11/19/2013 01:01:10 pm
Out of all three of the father-and-son relationships, I would say that the relationship between Elie and his father is the closest. In this relationship, there has been a bad thinking. Like when Elie thought that his father deserved getting beaten by the Kapo. But there was mostly great things in the relationship like when Elie and his father both understood each other so well, when his father smiled at Elie for waking him up, and the fact that Elie woke up his father in the train so he would not get thrown out. The other relationships, on the other hand, were mostly seen as a negative one. Like the one of Rabbi Eliahu and his son where he was looking for his son and Elie remembers that he was running beside him. Then Elie thought of Rabbi's son running to leave him behind. Also the relationship between the old father and his son in the train. In this relationship, the son killed his own father for less than half of a piece of bread. The impact of these relationships on me is that it made me thinks that some relationships remained the same as before where people had their normal lives and how it changed from their normal lives to the camps. The purpose of the other relationships would be to show that probably, not all relationships were all loving and caring during the camps.
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Michael Ponce
11/19/2013 01:03:10 pm
In Night by Elie Wiesel there is three father and son relationships. Elie and his father had a very close relation ship and got even closer when they entered the concentration camps because they were inseparable and cared for one another. Rabbi Eliahu and his son in the other hand had a very distant relationship and very cruel because his own son left him because Rabbi was slowing him down. Meri was very cruel to his father because he took the fathers life just for a piece of bread. That piece of bread shows us how tough times were back then and how people struggled to survive in the trains.
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Jennifer Chupin
11/19/2013 01:14:38 pm
In the book Night, we see a very common motif. The father and son relationship between Elie and his father is stronger than anything. They go even more closer during the concentraiton camps. The realtionship between Rabbi and his son is a different type of relationship. His son left his own father behind because he didn't want to get hurt or killed. Meri treated his father for something so simple. A little piece of bread. It showed how people in the past did not have many priviledges and did had to take the any chance they had.
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Fatima Romero
11/19/2013 01:38:40 pm
In the novel Night there is three father and son relationships. The main one would be Elie and and his father which have a very strong bond. Throughout the book their bond starts to get stronger and stronger. The concentration camp seem to bring them closer than they ever were. In the other hand Rabbi Eliahu and his son are the complete opposite. Rabbi Eliahu's son goes to the front of the pack leaving his father behind. The reason was because his father was slowing him down. Then there is father and son, Meir in the train, which is not a good father and son either. Meir kills his own father to get a piece of bread in order to survive. In the novel comes to show that some families would come to anything, including killing, just in order to survive.
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Susana Gonzalez
11/19/2013 04:23:37 pm
The contrasts of the relationships of father and son that are expressed in sections 6-7 not only helps readers comprehend more on Elie's view on his relationship with his father but also creates a tone for the story. In section 7 Elie has a painful tone, and the presence of many father and sons relationships just makes it harder for one tone to be set. In life it is mostly said that the relationships of a father and son hold and create a strong bond, but in this particular section Elie expresses that some lost their lve ones in order to keep on living, such as sons leaving behind their fthers, some giving up on them for good, and others even killiinf their fathers or one another for food to survive. Or in other cases like where the fathers do not have their sons because they are dead and do not want to let them go. These fathers had to keep on living without their boy's. These examples of father and son relationship just make the relationship of Elie and his father bright more and become more strong, without one another they are not complete, they need each other. Elie is one of those sons that if their father or parent died than there is no more meaning in living because his father is the only factor that makes him keep on going and the only thing that he has left that connects him to his previous life. To Elie his father is the one human being that he can depend on all the time and that it is the greatest thing that he has been given. The fact that there is someone out there that you have that truly cares about you enough besides your own self is sufficient to maintain you alive even if it means that you will suffer even more than before.
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Belen Robles
11/19/2013 04:41:34 pm
Sections 6 and 7 show us two new father-son relationships, including the one we have seen various times, the one between Eli and his father. Eli and his father have a very strong relationship, they are each others reason for survival; they live for each other. Then theirs the relationship between Rabbi Eliahutson and his son, where his son left his father behind because his father was slowing down and he did not want to be killed, which is similar to the relationship between Meir and his father. Meir killed his father over a piece of bread that the father managed to sneak, which he was going to share with him anyways. I imagine Eli put these three relationships because he wanted us to see how people really changed in concentration camps, and how the motif people treated like animals will act like animals. People need to survive, and for some people that means you need to betray the people you love in order to stay alive, that's what the concentration camps did. It messed with peoples minds, took the good things from life and made them focus on themselves, well to some. It explains what concentration camps did to some people and the savagery it brought out upon them.
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Bryan Amaro
11/19/2013 10:17:23 pm
The motif of a father and son relationship is an important motif for sections six and seven of the novel Night. There are three examples of a father and son relationship in sections six and seven. However, the relationship between Elie and his father was very strong; they are always with one another, always trying to stay together no matter what, like staying together during the march through the snow, and just seeing each other gives them support to do almost anything to stay with each other. However, the father and son relationship between Rabbi Eliahu was the same as Elie’s relationship with his father, but the difference was what happened at the end of their relationship. Rabbi and his son had always been together, doing everything together, just like Elie and his father. But one day, during the march, Rabbi's son had left his father behind because Rabbi once had no strength to continue to run, and Elie thought that Rabbi’s son was thinking that his father would slow him down and had left his father for survival. As for the relationship of Meir and his son, the relationship was not a positive one. Meir’s son had killed his own father, just for a peice of bread. These three examples of a father and son relationship are different from each other, where Elie and his father would always stay together and trying to help each other to survive, while the other two relationships where the sons trying to survive, leaving or killing their own fathers. We cannot blame the sons for doing such things, since they had suffered for years, and when the end came near for them, they would do anything for a chance of survival, even if it meant to sacrifice their own father.
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Angel Mis
11/19/2013 11:18:37 pm
ith his father to no end in Night, especially when he thinks about the other people around him. Ellie himself is very good to his father and does.everything he can to.help him and keep him alive. This is not the same to the other people in the camp, many only live for themselves and would easily dessert and murder if it means that they get an extra ration of bread or live without the burden of another person.. For example, Rabbi Eliahu and his son had a completely different view of one another as the son wanted nothing more than to rid himself of his father while the father lived for his son. The same can be said about Meir and his father, as Meir attacks and murders his father to steal his bread. Seeing these differences help to Solidify Ellie's relationship and put it info perspective as it is seen that what he does is rare. In turn, it gives great depth and complexity to Ellie and his father and a honest want for their survival is established in the reader.
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Leticia Diaz
11/19/2013 11:30:18 pm
In sections 6-7 we are constantly running into to the motif of father son relationship. In these two sections we are now presented to two more father son relationships, but in these relationships we see that that bond between one another isn't as strong as Eli's and his father's. in section six we see how some sons think they are getting retained by their father so at any minor opportunity that they get they try to abandon then and get a "load of their shoulders". In chapter seven we see how fathers and sons would be willing to kill for ones survival. They would kill one another for a piece of bread to kill the hunger than grows within them. Eli and his father always stay together, when there deprecated they try and find a way to be together again they are the reason why the other lives. Many sacrifices are done for the survival if at least one if the member but many obstacles and resistances are faced for the survival of both.
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Diane Leal
11/19/2013 11:30:41 pm
Throughout sections 6-7 readers can comprehend the father-son motif. The Rabbi had much love for his son as did his son for him. Although once Rabbi could not keep going anymore, his son left him and pretended that he did not notice his dad stop. As well as Meri who killed his father for a piece of bread. Both sons betrayed their fathers for their well being and to stay alive. The only that has stuck with his father is Elie. When his father can not keep going, he stops to help him and they always help eachother and are there for eachother. Since Elie witnessed all the other boys betraying their fathers, it encouraged him to love his father more and to never give up on him. That is a powerful father-son relationship that could never be broken.
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Yesenia Ramirez
11/19/2013 11:34:50 pm
The motif of relationship between father and son is expressed not only in section seven but in section six too. The readers can see how Eli's and his father realtionship is much pure , united , caring and loving. In the novel on section seven Eli utters , "Suddenly , the evidence overwhelmed me : there was no longer any reason to live , any reason to fight " Eli shows how if his father was gone , he would not want to live either. He's so afraid of the evidence being true and his father was dead. However his father is not dead. In section six of night his father says to him , " Dont worry son . Go to sleep. Ill watch over you." The father shows an act of caring and affection. The reader however, during these encounters of the motif also stumble into juxtaposition. The Rabi's son had left him behind because he was too slow. The Meir's son did not care he was dieing and took his piece of bread . These horrible actions are due to effect of Hitler's actions. The people are doing anything to survive . They act as animals using human instincts . In contrast , Eli and his father remain united and care for eachother no matter how hard life is getting hard for them .
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Diane Leal
11/19/2013 11:38:44 pm
Throughout sections 6-7 readers could comprehend the motif of father-son. Rabbi's son left him when he was weak. Rabbi stopped and his son kept going as if he did not notice him. In the train, Melizer killed his father for a piece of bread. The sons betrayed their fathers for their own well being and to stay alive. Although Elie's father was weak at times and also Elie, they never gave up on eachother and will always find a way to stay together. Since Elie witnessed the relationships the boys had with their fathers, it encouraged him to appreciate his father more and to promise to never leave his fathers side. This is what a call a true father-son relationship, where love and trust it at it's most.
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Heidi Ramos
11/19/2013 11:48:28 pm
In section 6 and 7 shows us father and son relationships. First the book Night shows us Elie and his father's relationship on how they are really close. How Elie would obey his father, like when he said do not fast or when he said take the knife and the spoon, he did. Elie would do anything to help his father because the camp actually made them closer because that is all they have left. Other father and son relationships are the exact opposite for example Rabbi Eliahu and his sons relationship well wasn't at all like Elie's and his father. Elie would help his father, obey his father, and would always be wanted to be with him. Rabbi's son on the other hand was different because instead of him staying with his father when they were marching, he left him because he was going to slow and that meant he didn't care about his father, he only cared about himself. This shows that they didn't have a close relationship with his father like Elie and his father. The other father and son relationship was worst it was Meir and his father. Meir, meir did something that just so cruel and harsh, he killed his own father for food. For a piece of bread. I think the reason why Weisel put those two cruel father realtionships because maybe one that he learned from those relationships, to not be as cruel like that to his father because in section6 he did pray to god and said that to please give him strength so that he would not to what Rabbi's son did to his own father. Also showing us what people did for survival, they left their parents, one even killed his own dad for bread. It could be showing how the camp is corrupting them.
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