Eliezer's relationship with his father, Chlomo, is a major theme in "Night." Elie Wiesel documents their mutual supportive relationship, Eliezer's growing feeling that his father is a burden to him, and his guilt about that feeling.

Eliezer's relationship with his father is extremely important to both of them, because it provides both with support. Though it is crucial to Eliezer to remain with his father at all costs, the link between parent and child grows weak under the stress of the Nazi oppression.

In Sighet, Eliezer and his father have a good relationship and it is clear that Eliezer looks up to his father. Eliezer's father is responsible, taking care of his family as well as the community.

When Eliezer's neighbourhood is deported to Auschwitz and forced into a concentration camp, Eliezer and his father are separated from his sisters and mother, never to see them again. The...