Elie Wiesel's Character Analysis

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In Elie Wiesel’s novel “Night”, Elie’s father is dying of dysentery due to the harsh conditions of the holocaust. Elie struggles to keep his father alive because of his biggest fear “not to lose him” (Wiesel 104), his father is his only remaining family member and Elie’s only will to live. Elie urges medical attention for his father by keeping him hydrated and fed by giving his own serving of food to his father to improve his father’s health because "He had become childlike: weak, frightened, vulnerable" (Wiesel 105). As his father nears death, Elie's thoughts alter when told by the head of the block “stop giving you ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore. And you are hurting yourself. In fact, you should be
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