The character Elie in the novel Night by Wiesel experiences many loses, tragedies, and heartbreak. Elie has strong love for his family and his God. The novel Night is a story about hope because anybody who could make it through death camps would need some sort of hope to keep them going. Also because he never gave up on his father and he never gave up through this hard and tragic time. .
Elie's family was very important to him; he loved his family very much and did not want to part with them. When his mother and sister went to the showers he felt alone he had nothing but his father. "Men to the left! Women to the right!" "Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight short, simple words. Yet that was the moment when I parted from my mother. I had no time to think, but already I felt the pressure of my father's hand: we were alone." (Wiesel 27) When his father began to get ill, Elie did all he could to take care of him. Elie helped his father when the selection was made by chasing after his father so that they could both go to the right and live. .
"My father was sent to the left. I ran after him. An SS officer shouted at my back: "Come back here!" I slipped among the others. Several SS officers rushed to bring me back, creating such confusion that many of the people from the left were able to come back to the right - among them my father and myself." (Wiesel 91) .
Another situation that Elie helped his father was when they were on the train. Elie woke up his father by smacking him as hard as he could until he woke up, so that the other passenger's would not throw him off the side to have more room for themselves, mistaking him as a corpse. (Pg 94) When Elie's father was getting beaten because he could not even go outside to relieve himself, Elie was the one who stook up for him, and gave him his portion of bread so that he would get better. (Pg 104) .
Elie never gave up though everything that he had to go through.