One of the Blockältestes who is standing beside Elie asked if that was his father. When Elie responds with yes. The Blockälteste then proceeds to say that the doctor or himself are unable to save him from his dreadful conditions. He reminds Elie that he needs to move on and think of his own survival: “Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every man for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even your father” (Wiesel 110). Elie is doubting himself because knows that his best odds of surviving will be will be without his father but also doesn't want to give up on him. The Blockälteste along with others are putting words in his head, where he starts to believe more and more that his father is dragging him down with him. The stress of survival as Elie fights for his life, is tearing him apart on whether to focus on himself since his father is almost at the end of his life or to try to keep his father alive and fighting as long as possible. Elie began at the camps and only thinks of him and his father surviving together, but by the end, as he witnesses all the deaths and suffering he now has thoughts of leaving him to die. Elie shows the struggle to keep a relationship under the pressure of survival, as he grows distant from his dad over the time in the
One of the Blockältestes who is standing beside Elie asked if that was his father. When Elie responds with yes. The Blockälteste then proceeds to say that the doctor or himself are unable to save him from his dreadful conditions. He reminds Elie that he needs to move on and think of his own survival: “Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every man for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even your father” (Wiesel 110). Elie is doubting himself because knows that his best odds of surviving will be will be without his father but also doesn't want to give up on him. The Blockälteste along with others are putting words in his head, where he starts to believe more and more that his father is dragging him down with him. The stress of survival as Elie fights for his life, is tearing him apart on whether to focus on himself since his father is almost at the end of his life or to try to keep his father alive and fighting as long as possible. Elie began at the camps and only thinks of him and his father surviving together, but by the end, as he witnesses all the deaths and suffering he now has thoughts of leaving him to die. Elie shows the struggle to keep a relationship under the pressure of survival, as he grows distant from his dad over the time in the