![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After the family is split up at Birkenau, Eliezer and his father have only each other to live for. The relationship of father to son is traditional-the biblical commandment to honor one's parents is paramount in Jewish families like Eliezer's. In normal life, before the Holocaust began, Eliezer's father has great respect in the community and within Eliezer's house. Yet the narrator also pays attention to other father-son relationships among the prisoners in the camps his observations of other fathers and sons make him think about his duties to his own father. At the heart of this theme is Eliezer's relationship with his own father. In between, Night explores the ways traditional father-son relationships break down under impossibly difficult conditions. By the end of the book, his father is dead, another victim of the Nazi death camps. As his family is being marched from its home, Eliezer sees his father weep for the first time. ![]()
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