Night by Elie Wiesel

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The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir about a young boy and his father going through the Holocaust. Elie was 15 years old from a small town in Transylvania when the Holocaust happened. Before Elie and his father went through the Holocaust, they didn’t really get along but when they were in three different camps for eighteen months, their relationship change more because they only had each other. In the beginning of the book, Elie and his family live in Sighet, Transylvania. Elie was closer to Moishe the Beadle than his father. Elie and Moishe were closer because they mostly did everything together and Elie trusted more Moishe than his father.Together they would read over and over the same page of the Zohar (5). Mr. Wiesel was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. Mr. Wiesel would spend most of his time at his store than with his family. Mr. Wiesel rarely displayed his feelings not even with his family (4). As soon as Elie and his father go to the camps the relationships changes between them. Life in Sighet and Elie’s relationship with his father change as soon as the SS man came and took the Jews to the trains. When the SS man separated the women and the men that’s when Elie realized that he was left with his father. While Elie and his father were walking, Elie’s hand tighter on his father’s hand and all he could think of was not to lose his father ( 29-30). When Elie and his father were in the camps, Elie was happy that he was near his father. Elie’s father would give Elie tips to survive. Mr. Wiesel was chosen in the selection and he gave Elie the family inheritance. The inheritance was a spoon and a knife (75). Mr. Wiesel told Elie that he mustn’t eat all at once (44). Mr. Wiesel and Elie were giving each other reasons to live. Leaving Gleiwitz and going to Appelplatz, Elie and his father were very close to each other. The train stops in an empty

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