Night Father-son Relationship

Elie Weisel’s memoir Night focuses on Elie’s harsh life in the concentration camp. One of the important aspects of the books is the change in not only Elie’s father-son relationship but other father-son relationships in the book. The book reveals a great deal on how humans can change in a harsh environment like the concentration camp. The concentration camp is the cause of the change in the father-son relationship. For the father-son …

…is the concentration camp. Without law and order, some people turn into savages not caring about anything but food. Usually everyone is close to their parents and loves their parents, but the characters in the book distanced themselves from their father in the concentration camp. It is the concentration camp that changes many peoples way of thinking because of the harsh treatment they go through, and the harsh treatment that they see others suffering from.