In Night, analyze how the changes in his relationship with his father affect the way Eliezer sees himself as an individual. How do they affect way he...

Over the
course of his hellish experiences, Eliezer increasingly comes to feel that his father is a
burden. Like every other prisoner in Auschwitz, Eliezer's whole purpose in life is to survive,
and looking out for his father makes this harder. Elie's father is becoming weaker by the day,
requiring more effort on Elie's part to help him. But Elie finds it hard enough to look after
himself, let alone anyone else, even his closest surviving relative.

So he
becomes increasingly indifferent to his father's welfare, looking on impotently while he's
savagely beaten to within an inch of his life by two SS guards. It gets to the point where Elie
actually wishes that his father would die to put the both of them out of their misery. And when
Elie's father finally does die, Elie can't even bring himself to cry. All he can think about at
that moment is where his next meal's coming from.

Elie recognizes that he's
become a different person due to his experiences in Auschwitz. Somewhat less than a man, he's
been reduced to the status of an animal by the Nazis' systematic brutality and
inhumanity.