...In the book, Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie and his father go through major relationship changes throughout the book and it is interesting to watch the evolution of a father-son relationship like this. Elie and his father live in a town called, Sighet, they live in a Jewish community and are jews themselves. They have a person in the community named, Moshe the Beadle, he is taken away for a bit and when he returns he tells a story of how he and other people were taken out to a ditch and everyone was shot and killed, he escaped. Nobody believes such a thing is possible, until the Hungary police and nazis come in and put them in ghettos, small walled off communities. Then they are sent to the camp. The first time Elie and his father’s relationship is shown, they are distant. His father cares more about the community than his own family. Elie and his father don’t really talk much at all and have no sign of any good relationship there. Elie said, “My father was occupied with his business and the doings of the community” (Wiesel 5). His father has all his time occupied by everything but his family. Elie at this point is devoted to his religion and constantly is studying on it and learning more through a book called the “Cabbala”. It is a higher learning of their religion. Elie and his father’s relationship is getting better, but only due to them being forced to be together in the...
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...In Eliezer Wiesel’s Night, he focuses on father and son relationships. In the beginning Elie and his father did not have a very strong relationship. “my father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than his own kin”, Elie says. His father was not a man of emotion and treated Elie as if he was a spoiled rotten kid. Wiesel details father-son relationships to show how natural, loving bonds deteriorate when individuals are faced with intolerable situations. For example, a prisoner murders his father for a taste of bread, demonstrating the breakdown of humanity. The prisoner then ends up getting jumped and is also killed. Another...
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...Father Son Relationships in Night A relationship can be defined as the mutual dealings, connections, or feelings that exist between people. Across Europe during the Holocaust, families were torn apart. At the arrival of a concentration camp, families were separated, never to be reunited again. The few families that remained had to watch one another suffer and eventually die from the harsh conditions. Those that had lost their families lost their strength and will to live. Eventually, they let the crematories claim their lives. As for Elie Wiesel, he vows to never lose his father and will do anything to remain with him. Wiesel’s memoir Night depicts the true hardships of having a family during the Holocaust. The events portrayed in Night show that the atrocities bring Wiesel and his father closer giving Wiesel a reason to live but also places Wiesel at a disadvantage. In the beginning, Wiesel and his father have a brittle relationship. Their relationship appears weak and lacks a certain connection. Wiesel states, “My father was a cultured, rather unsentimental man” (2). The absence of emotions and personal interactions between them weakens their relationship. Wiesel also claims, “He was more concerned with others than...
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...officers took him and his son from his home and put him on a crowded cattle car. His wife, not Jewish, demanded to go on one of the cattle cars. He went to the concentration camps with his wife and son but the Nazis separated Guido and his son from the wife. Guido realized how much discrimination and the magnitude of the hatred and mistreatment at the concentration camps and wanted to shield it from his young son. Guido told his...
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...the roads or the accommodation" (Goldsmith, n.d.). This quote by Oliver Goldsmith (n.d.) focuses on how every life is a journey that they need to go on. No matter what happens in live, the only place to go is forward. In the movie "Life is Beautiful" (2000) and Elie Wiesel's (2006) book Night, Elie and Joshua's lives are not bright. They are going through one of the hardest times of their lives, whether they know it or not. God provided for both boys to keep their paths straight and keep them moving through the torturous times. With love, life is hard to live; thankfully, both Elie and Joshua had their fathers to stand beside them and give them the encouragement to...
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...person happy and doing the right thing. Most people would think lying is not an acceptable way to create a healthy and sustainable relationship, but to what extent does telling the truth become harmful in a relationship? In the memoir Night written by Elie Wiesel and in the movie Life is Beautiful directed by Roberto Benigni, both father and son Shlomo and Elie, and Guido and Joshua get sent off to a concentration camp due to the heinous matter of discrimination. The father-son relationship in Night differs from the father-son relationship in Life is Beautiful by how each of the fathers deal with the truth which ultimately distinguishes between a healthy...
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...rest of their lives. On of those people was Eliezer Wiesel, author of the book Night (2006), and holocaust server. His story is not the only story out there. The move “Life is Beautiful” (2000) follows the story of a young man and his son though the holocaust. In the novel Night and in the movie “Life is Beautiful,” the holocaust is portrayed both similarly and differently through the fathers and the sons, developments of the fathers, and the faith development in the two boys. The most juxtapose aspect of the two stories was the relationship between the fathers and the sons. Both fathers care about their sons, but in Night (2006) they were not close at the beginning. “It’s dangerous to fall asleep in the snow. One falls asleep forever. Come, my son, come… get up” (Wiesel, 2006, p. 88). Eliezer and father grow in their relationship throughout the book, but at this moment shows how close they now are. After running for a long time, they can rest; Eliezer’s father won’t let him. Out of fear of losing his son, and...
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... Night (Rough Draft) We have very good relationships with our parents, but in the book Night by: Elie Wiesel, Elie and his father had a strong relationship in the story; it all starts in the concentration camp where they watch for each other and care, plus they even get a stronger bond once horrifying events happen at the Nazi concentration camp until his father gets really sick. Later in the story, Elie feels really upset later in the story when his father gets sick and has to abandon him this shows that these two child and son will never leave each other. While at the camp they go through a lot together. They have to go through so many terrible obstacles while at the camp to survive in their relationship to survive, but then it deteriorates later in the book Wiesel states: In the book they would both actually die for each other to stay alive at the camp if it was necessary, they were inseparable. They loved each other and would not let that fade and be separated. Later in the story here is when it starts to go down at Buna, Elie’s father was often picked on for not working hard enough and that he could not march in his step. Elie went from supporting his father and keeping him safe to becoming angry and very critical of him. There was a part in the book where Idek the Kapo attacked his father for not marching in step. Elie was very angry and upset at his father for not avoiding Idek’s blows. He knew that every time his father showed weakness, he would...
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...National Lampoon’s Family Vacation adventures provide us with other types of family vacation time and social dysfunctions. A father and son plan a vacation to Florida, which puts to test their relationship. The father and son while having a distant relationship were brought together by the vacation which included riding motorcycles, buying matching t-shirts, and a relaxing walk along the beach. Randy, my wonderful husband comes from a dysfunctional family. While in middle school, Randy’s parents divorced, and his relationship with his dad suffered. After one of their altercations, Randy left his Dad’s house in Peoria, Illinois, and hitchhiked his way to Union, Missouri to live with his mother. Later in life, his parents reunited, and settled in Kentucky. Randy stayed in Missouri, keeping in touch with his parents, and would visit with them when time allowed. Riding motorcycles was a passion that both the father and son enjoyed; otherwise they were quite different. One was a diesel mechanic, and the other a white collar manager. Randy loves warm weather, the ocean and riding his motorcycle; therefore, he planned a bike trip to Florida with his dad. Taking into account his father’s age and the distance involved, Randy rented an enclosed trailer to haul the motorcycles. The first day, Randy loaded his touring bike and drove to Kentucky to pickup his father. Upon opening the trailer, they discovered that Randy’s bike had fallen over, breaking the windshield. Consequently...
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...romantic drama film. This is about a young black woman Leticia (Halle Berry) who is a single mother to an obsessed son Tyrell (Coronji Calhoun) and who his father Lawrence Musgrove (Sean Combs) is on death row. They were very both artistic artists. Monster's Ball is a very dark movie, and it's definitely not for kids. It's such an ugly depiction of life that it made me cringe at times. A lot has been said about its graphic sex scene. Well, I didn't think it was too graphic, but it was starkly realistic and completely not glamorous. Like the rest of the film, it was ugly. And like most of the film, it was unflinchingly real. Leticia is struggling financially to raise their son while her husband is in prison on death row. She eventually took a job working as a waitress at a diner to make ends meet. Which resulted in her sons Tyrell death one night when they were leaving the diner her son was struck by car. “The Monsters Ball”. And when Leticia meets Hank (Billy Bob Thornton) who stops on the side of the rode to help her take her son to the hospital which he later died. “The Monsters Ball”. And from that night Leticia and Hank went their separate ways until one night Hank sees her leaving from the diner and gave her a ride home which resulted to wild sex. “The Monsters Ball”. After that night Leticia went on with the sorrows of losing her husband and son dealing with it the best way that she could. And the only way she knew how was going back to her domestic ways which...
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...endure and resist the desire of death. In a beautiful villanelle dedicated to his father, Thomas told him: “do not go gentle into that good night,” but to “rage, rage against the dying of the light” (Thomas, 1 and 3). Thomas hoped that his father would find the strength to not give up in his fight for life. Their familial love gave his father the hope to do the seemingly impossible and defy death, for a little longer. Hope is key to surviving in any situation, but it takes a lot of emotional strength to maintain. During the Holocaust, this was truer than ever for millions of people, who faced death every day, and were tortured, starved, and violated. Their hope in religion, the goodness of humanity, and themselves were continually tested and most victims’ hope were eventually lost because of their suffering. One survivor, Elie Wiesel, wrote a memoir, Night, sharing his experiences during the Holocaust and in a concentration camp, and solemnly displaying his progression of hope. Elie's gradual loss of hope caused him to lose the emotional strength that he needs to survive, which made him desperate to cling on to the familial identity that was...
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...involved him and his father during family time at home one evening. A strong bond of love and playfulness between father and son is shown thru Roethke’s recollection of personal childhood memories. The poem takes place at the family’s home on a quiet evening. The father comes home after a hard day’s work which is where Roethke states, “With a palm caked hard by dirt” (line 14) suggests that the father is a blue collar hard working man who provides for his family and puts the food on the table every night. Since he works so much and does not want to come home bitter and exhausted and complain about his long day, he rewards himself with a bit of alcohol. The speakers reveals, “The whiskey on your breath, Could make a small boy dizzy” (1-2). One might get the impression that the father came home drunk out of his mind, but what those two lines say to me is after having a drink or two, or maybe he drank at home, he was in such a good mood that he started waltzing with his son. Also since the father was such a hard worker and most likely was a big fellow, his son mentions the whiskey breath which would be too strong for him but does not make him seem like a drunk. Now that the father is home and sees his family, he starts waltzing around the living room with his little boy. The father is moving quite fast for the little boy which is why Roethke notes, “But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy” (3-4). The waltz itself represented the father and son relationship that they shared...
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...Analytical Essay – My Son The Fanatic For many people it can be hard to break out of the social inheritance, which we all have. It takes time, effort and often, a lot of money. This is just one of the many things, that is happening on in the short story “My Son The Fanatic”. My Son The Fanatic is about Ali and his father Parvez. It takes us threw Ali´s life and how his father Parvez, has a big impact on Ali´s life it. It also shows us the ups and downs in the little families’ lives. The main focus in my analysis is going to be the relationship between Ali and his father, and also on how the relationship develops, how the father helps his son. I also want to look at, the impact that Ali has in his father’s life. If he changed him in any way, maybe Parvez is just living his own life, without any influence from his son, Ali. I will also tell a bit about the environment in the short story. The short story My Son The Fanatic is a about a boy Ali, whom goes to college. He is very religious, a Muslim. He is independent and sees Parvez' beloved Britain as a fraudulent cocktail of "a sink of hypocrites, drug takers and prostitutes.” He seems to bear no resemblance to his father and be very resentful towards his way of sees life. His father Parvez is the caring, protective husband, whose dream is Britain itself; to have his son grow up, educating as an accountant, shine at cricket and school and then set off to marry a good girl and commence his own life. He...
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...In the memoir, "Night", by Eliezer Wiesel, Elie's relationship with other characters is explored. These relationships which are critically centralized within the text play an essential part in the characterisation of the protagonist Elie. One such relationship is that between Elie and his father, which helps in the characterisation of Elie . Another ongoing relationship explored within the text is between Elie and God, which is essential in the further characterization of Elie. Elie's relationship with himself is seen to be centralized in the memoir. Elie's relationship with his father is a critically explored central point in the text because it plays a key role in Elie's character development as it displays Elie's growing selfishness and lack of care toward his father. Through the use of a quote from Pg 35 where Elie is seen to describe that "My head was buzzing ...not to be separated from my father" Wiesel portrays Elie as a loving son and is able to illustrate a strong father-son relationship. Additionally by...
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...Summary of ’my son the fanatic’ "My son the fanatic" is a story about a Pakistani father Parvez and his son Ali. Parvez starts to notice a weird behavior from his son, he stopped bringing friends home, he stopped seeing his English girlfriend and he was throwing out all of his possessions. After a while, Parvez went to his friends, the cabbies (because Parvez is a cab driver) and told them what he was experiencing. The cabbies told Parvez that his son was definitely taking and/or selling drugs, and he was selling his possessions to pay for the drugs. Parvez started to watch Ali's behavior more closely, and he told his good friend, the prostitute Bettina, about his problem. She guided Parvez about what to look for and what to do, if his son was actually taking and/or selling drugs. It turned out that Ali did not do drugs - he was just extremely religious. Parvez tried to talk to his son about this behavior he had suddenly put up, and Ali turned out to be very hostile towards his father. The two of them, who had had a brother like relationship, now had a completely different look at life. a. What has Parvez done to secure his son a good life in England? Parvez has worked very hard as a taxi driver, and he has bought every imaginable thing that Ali could need as a college student. b. How has the son reacted to this in the past? The texts does not inform us about Ali’s reactions in the past, but it is explained that Parvez and Ali had a brother like relationship, which leads...
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