The Holocaust is filled with horror, terror, hunger, painful, etc that moves people's heart with pity and shock. Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel which tells the true story of Elie's experience and everyone else's in the concentration camps. During the reign of the nazis, German soldiers invade the town of Sighet, Russia, to expel all of the Jews to the concentration camps. There were many Jews' lives taken and they experienced many hardships during their time.For Eliezel, his hardest hardship is committing to his father. Although he admits to the power of the instinct for self-preservation, because of his commitment to his father throughout the prison camp experience, and because of his reactions to other sons who do abandon or turn on their fathers, Wiesel and his father apparently favors commitment to family over commitment to self-preservation.
In the concentration camps, Eliezel makes a commitment to his father to not abandon him and he tries to help him survive throughout the entire experience. "Do you want to get into a good unit? I certainly do. But on one condition: I want to stay with my father." (Wiesel, 56). This evidence shows that even though they are in a new camp, Buna, Eliezer still stays faithful to his father and tries to bargain with the head's assistant to stay with his father. He could've easily just .
gotten into a good unit and save himself, but instead he tries to get his father to be with him. Eliezer is trying to keep his father safe from the crematories. "I decided to give my father lessons myself, to teach him to change step, and to keep to the rhythm. But my father's progress was still inadequate, and blows continued to rain down on him." (Wiesel, 63). Elie is teaching his father how to march properly so that his father won't get beaten anymore. He is using up his energy to help his father because he knows that if his father keeps getting beaten, he might not survive and he will be taken to the crematories.
