Naight Essay

Essay Night

Would you give your life for your father's? This question is always asked by the reader in Elie Wiesel's auto-biography Night. Elie is an example of someone who would aid his father until the end. On the other hand, there are other characters along the story who give up to their father's life. Under critical conditions, people have extremely different levels of preference when deciding between a father's life or yours'. Eliahous' son shows ver little resistance on the matter compared to Elie. Elie still waits next to his father until the end of his life without running away. Finally Elie shows how he also has a limit, although his limit is seen after his dad dies.

Rabbi EliahousÒ' son abandoned his father. It is possible that if the Rabbi would have been next to his son for a longer time, maybe he would have not died. When running about forty

miles the Rabbi's son decided to continue his path and let his father get lost, "...free himself from an encumbrance which could lessen his own chance of survival."(p. 87) It was a hard decision to make. Under such circumstances, running forty

miles in the snow, it is easier to understand the RabbiÒ's son actions.

Elie also believes the correct thing would be abandoning your father although he cannot do this because he loves his father too much to do something like that. By deciding to wait until the end next o his father Elie is risking his life immensely, "...having two rations of bread, two rations of soup..."(p. 105)Every gram of bread under Elie's situation was helpful. I love you. This action of waiting until the end next to his father means that Elie still has something he can lose. He still has a reason to be alive. It is important to note that this quote is said just before Elie's dad died. In the moment his dad dies, we can see how Elie feel pain for the first time since long ago. Elie was used to been hit, and it did not hurt him; he was used