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- "I knew that I was no longer arguing with him but with Death itself, with Death that he had already chosen." "I remained in Buchenwald until April 11. I shall not describe my life during that period. It no longer mattered. Since my father's death, nothing mattered to me any more…I spent my days in total idleness. With only one desire: to eat.
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As the prisoners from Birkenau move into new barracks at Auschwitz’s main camp, Eliezer watches a veteran inmate beat his father in response to a polite question. This moment marks one of the first instances in which Eliezer witnesses someone target and attack his father specifically.
Fathers and Sons. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Night, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. As his family is being marched from its home, Eliezer sees his father weep for the first time. By the end of the book, his father is dead, another victim of the Nazi death camps.
Quote 1. My father's voice tore me from my daydreams: "What a shame, a shame that you did not go with your mother …. I saw many children your age go with their mothers …". His voice was terribly sad. I understood that he did not wish to see what they would to do to me. He did not wish to see his only son go up in flames. (3.55-57)
- Elie Wiesel
- 1956
- “Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.” ― Elie Wiesel, Night.
- “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” ― Elie Wiesel, Night.
- “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....
- “I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.” ― Elie Wiesel, Night.
To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing. To break rank, to let myself slide to the side of the road… My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me." Eliezer becomes preoccupied with ideas of death as he and the rest of the prisoners from Buna march through heavy snow toward another camp.
Jan 2, 2020 · He was only a number: prisoner A-7713. “I’ve got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He’s the only one who’s kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.” (Chapter 5) Hitler's "final solution" was to extinguish the Jewish population. Millions of Jews were being killed, so his plan was working.
