Night

Night by Elie Wiesel In the novel 'Night' by Elie Weisel we learn about the relationship between Elie and his father and how it changes through out their experiences of being in the death camps at the time of the Holocaust. The novel is an autobiography by Elie and is written in first person narrative and relates the events from his perspective. Elie lived in a small Jewish community in Sighet, Translavanyia. There he lived …

…a truncheon, Elie says 'I did not move. I was afraid. My body was afraid of also receiving a blow.' This is at the end of the novel and it shows that now Elie has no feelings for anyone but himself. As he gets told by a SS officer ' Here there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends. Everyone lives and dies for himself alone.' He realises that the officer is right.