Concentration Camps In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

The Concentration Camps Ever wondered how life would have been during World War II. Well, Elie Wiesel was a young Jewish boy living in Transylvania, Romania. He lived with his father, mother, and 3 sisters. All of which were sent to concentration camps. They both lied about their ages so they could be together in the same camps. Throughout the book there were many relationships between father and son, some were very different from others. Almost all of them died. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel uses Tone, Characterization, and Foreshadowing to portray the effect of father and son had in concentration camps. Tone can show how harsh people were to each other there. On page 101, a sons were killing his father because he was hungry. “Meir, my

Two gravediggers saw Mr. Wiesel laying on the ground and thought he was dead. Elie slapped him and hit multiple times trying to wake him up so they would not take him. “And I started to hit him harder and harder. At last, my father half opened his eyes. They were glassy. He was breathing faintly.” His father does die at the end. This foreshadows how Elie will react when his father does die.

Another example that foreshadows is on page 55. Franek wants Elie’s crown from his mouth. Elie says no but Franek ends up getting it by beating Elie’s weak point, his father. “‘Let me have your crown, kid’ I answered that I could not because without the crown i could no longer eat.” This shows how Elie feels about his father being beaten by Franek.

There were many examples in the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, that proves that concentration camps affected father son relationships. It came to the point where they were killing each other for food. But some stayed strong like Elie Wiesel who helped his father till the very end, but he still changed his views about his father. Elie used tone, characterization, and foreshadowing to show that fathers and sons have changed throughout their times at the concentration