Night Eliezer's Relationship

The Jews looked up at God very passionately because he was their idol and guide through life. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, hardships that Jews faced during the Holocaust are portrayed. Throughout the book, the author develops motifs that depict Eliezer’s relationship with his father and his questioning of faith. On the other hand, Elie’s bond with his father is jeopardized due to the challenges they are being put through.
Eliezer’s relationship with his father is greatly emphasized as a motif within the book. Elie emphasizes the central idea of his relationship with his father. For instance, he asserts, “I wanted to see where they were sending my father. If he went to the right, I would go after him...”(29) In other words, he is willing to go to the right, with his father, to be executed and not face the future alone. His main priority is to care of his father, in a time of cruelty. An example occurs late in the novel when his father is weak: “...don't give your ration of bread and soup to your old father. There's nothing you can do for him...” (105) For the sake of himself, Elie is willing to give up his meals to keep his father alive, to

The son, at first, wants to explore what faith was and the “almighty God” but the father didn’t agree with what he was thinking. He thinks Eliezer is too young. Now that they’re suffering the father maintains his faith, however Eliezer doesn't understand and no longer believes. To illustrate, he mentions: “I did not fast mainly to please my father who had forbidden me to do so...there was no longer any reason why i should fast. I no longer accepted God’s. As I swallowed my bowl of soup, i saw in the gesture an act of rebellion and protest against Him.” He no longer has faith and his only purpose in fastening, is for his father. Overall Eliezer’s attitude seems to shift as he realizes the importance of his father's life to his own