Elie Wiesel And His Father's Relationship Analysis

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The changing relationship between Elie Wiesel and his father helped Elie survive the life-threatening conditions of the concentration camps. Elie did not want to die because he wanted to support his aging father, he believed he "had no right to let myself die.” Elie felt as if being separated from his father by death when they were both so weak and vulnerable would not be fair to leave his father all alone especially when all that his father had left was him (Wiesel 86-87). In the concentration camp, the positions that they were in forced Elie to search for hope to continue to battle death or else,"there is no longer any reason to live, any reason to fight" and for Elie, the only reason to fight was for his father (Wiesel 98-99). Even though