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The social parallels between section 8 and 9 in the novel Night are significant. For example, when Eliezer finds his Dad suffering after the air raid alert and gives him soups and coffee, but Eliezer feels somewhat guilty in doing so because part of him wanted to keep that food for himself, rather than giving it to his father. This is similar to real life situations of the children in developing countires, for example Sudan. It is similar in the point that the children in countries like Sudan going through major struggle to get food and hydration for their parents in need, but would rather it for themselves, because they are suffering just as much also.

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Elie Wiesel before and after the Holocaust

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Elie Wiesel before and after the Holocaust

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Elie Wiesel Remembers His Little Sister 

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Elie Wiesel Remembers His Little Sister 

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Elie Wiesel Remembers His Little Sister | SuperSoul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network

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After stating that he sees a “corpse” looking back at him, Eliezer adds, “The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.” While it is true that Eliezer, after the Holocaust, thinks of himself as another person, someone utterly changed from the innocent boy who left Sighet, that person, that “corpse,” undergoes a transformation. Looking back, Eliezer realizes that he is no longer the corpse who was liberated from Buchenwald. Indeed, it is Eliezer’s particular burden to remember the look in the corpse’s eyes, because only by remembering and by bearing witness can the survivors of the Holocaust ensure that nothing like the Holocaust will ever happen again. But the memory of evil, as Wiesel realizes, and as Eliezer perhaps comes to realize in the process of separating himself from the corpse he has become as a result of his time in the concentration camps, can coexist with faith, both in God and in man.

Night does not end with optimism and an inspiring,happy message, but neither does it end as bleakly as many believe. What we are left with are questions—about God’s and man’s capacity for evil—but no true answers. Night does not try to answer these questions; perhaps this lack of answers is one of the reasons that the story ends with the liberation of Buchenwald. The moral responsibility for remembering the Holocaust, and for confronting these difficult questions, falls directly upon us, the readers.

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The journey to Buchenwald nearly kills Eliezer’s father. On arrival, he sits in the snow and refuses to move. He seems at last to have given in to death but Eliezer tries to convince him to move, but he will not or cannot, asking only to be allowed to rest. When an air raid alert drives everyone into the barracks, Eliezer leaves his father and falls deeply asleep. In the morning, he begins to search for his father, but only half heartedly as part of him thinks that he will be better off without him as he will no longer have to look out for him. He is a dead weight now. Almost accidentally, however, he finds his father, who is very sick and unable to move. Eliezer brings him food but feels deep guilt, because part of him would rather keep the food for himself, to increase his own chance of survival.

Eliezer’s father has dysentery, which makes him very thirsty, but it is extremely dangerous to give water to a man with dysentery. Eliezer tries to find medical help for his father but the doctors will not treat the old man. The prisoners near Eliezer’s father’s bed steal his food and beat him. Eliezer, unable to resist his father’s cries for help, gives him water. After a week, Eliezer is approached by the head of the block, who tells him what he already knows—that his father is dying, and that Eliezer should concentrate his energy on his own survival. The next time the SS patrol the barracks, Eliezer’s father again cries for water, and the SS officer, screaming at Eliezer’s father to shut up, hits him in the head. The next morning, Eliezer wakes up to find that his father has been taken to the crematorium. To his deep shame, he does not cry and instead, he feels relief.

Eliezer remains in Buchenwald, thinking neither of liberation nor of his family, but only of food. That’s all that matters now. With the American army approaching, the Nazis decide to exterminate all the Jews left in the camp. Daily, thousands of Jews are murdered. On April 10, with about 20,000 people remaining in the camp, the Nazis decide to evacuate, and kill, everyone left in the camp. As the evacuation begins, however, an air-raid siren sounds, sending everybody indoors. When it seems that all has returned to normal and that the evacuation will proceed as planned, the ‘enemy’ (not so much for Eliezer) strikes, driving the SS from the camp. Hours later, the American army arrives. Now free, the prisoners think only of feeding themselves. Eliezer is struck with food poisoning and spends weeks in the hospital close to death. When he finally raises himself and looks in the mirror (he has not seen himself in a mirror since leaving Sighet) he is shocked: “From the depths of the mirror,” Wiesel writes, “a corpse gazed back at me.”

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Chapters 8 & 9 - By Lily, Matt, and Oliver

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Chapters 8 & 9 - By Lily, Matt, and Oliver

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This image is of the concentration camp Buna, located in Monowice, Poland. Buna was originally a sub-camp to Auschwitz.  Similar to most concentration camps, A large population of the inhabitants died because of the starvation, savage treatment, and execution. In the camp's barracks, 250 men were kept in them with 3-4 people per bed. The prisoners had to put in 9 hours of hard labor followed by 3-4 to work on the camp itself.

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In chapters 8 and 9 the father-son role is reversed, and Eliezer is forced to take care of his father. Overcome with cold and fatigue, Eliezer's father simply wants to lie down and rest in the snow, even though to do so means an almost certain death. He no longer cares about living, and like a child, begs to simply be left alone to sleep: "'Don't shout, son. Take pity on your old father.Leave me to rest here.Just for a bit, I'm so tired at the end of my strength' He had become like a child, weak, timid, vulnerable." Eliezer's father has given up and no longer wants the responsibility of trying to stay alive. As his son, Eliezer takes on this responsibility for him, but it is not one that he is sure he can handle. But Eliezer’s father keeps calling for water, and the SS solider don’t like it and they beat him and when Eliezer wakes up his father had been taken away during the night and replaced. After his father's death, he becomes indifferent and emotionless, concerned only with eating.

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"I probably brought him more satisfaction than I had done during my whole childhood." Chapter 8, pg. 101

"But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like-free at last!" Chapter 8, pg. 106

"After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more." Chapter 9, pg. 107

"From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me." Chapter 9, pg. 109

As Elie's father cries out for water, an officer gives him a severe blow to his head. On January 28th, 1945, Elie sees his father for the last time: "his blood-stained face, his shattered skull."

"I have nothing to say of my life during this period. It no longer mattered. After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more."

"'Don't shout, son. Take pity on your old father.Leave me to rest here. Just for a bit, I'm so tiredat the end of my strength' He had become like a child, weak, timid, vulnerable."