‘at Times for Elie, His Father Seems a Burden as Their Shared Suffering Continues. However, Elie Does Not Abandon His Father as Other Sons Do. Discuss.’

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‘At times for Elie, his father seems a burden as their shared suffering continues. However, Elie does not abandon his father as other sons do. Discuss.’ Throughout his time imprisoned within he Nazi camps there were many incidences that led Elie to view his father as a burden. Despite feeling this way, Elie never abandoned Chlomo as some other sons did, even though choosing this path would have made life in the camps more bearable. Elie saw it as his duty you ensure his father’s survival and their shared ordeal make them closer, assisting both in their will to survive. During the time Elie and his father spent in the Nazi concentration camps they both changes in different ways but still managed to stick together. The horrifying thing they saw and were made to do forced Elie to learn skills to continue to live. He changed from an innocent child into a young man with only one thing on his mind, survival. As Elie was becoming stronger his father Chlomo had a dramatically opposite effect and was slowly loosing faith. This was shown when Elie saw his father, a well-respected and stern man, crying after finally realizing his family’s fate. ‘My father was crying. It was the first time I had seen him cry. I had never thought it possible.’ At that point was when Chlomo and Elie’s relationship changed as Chlomo relies on Elie in order to get through the rough times they had ahead in the camps. Regardless of Elie’s support for his father, Chlomo’s growing reliance on him does force Elie to view his father as a burden from time to time. Elie feels like its his responsibility to look after his father but its weighing him down. Elie is still a young boy and finds it hard to even help himself. ‘If only I was relieved of this responsibility, I could use all my strength to fight for my own survival, to take care only of myself.’ They are all bashed, starved, abused. Elie

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