What is the climax of Night?

It's difficult to find a traditional notion of "climax" in
Wiesel's work.  It makes sense to a great extent because so much of what Wiesel has
presented is so beyond traditional configurations.  I would say that a particular apex
of action is reached when Eliezer's father dies.  There is so much in this moment that
is haunting and reflective of Eliezer's own sense of change and development that the
father dying is one of the last connections to his own past.  The father begging his son
for water, asking why his son is being ignored, and Eliezer simply ignoring such cries
only to wake the next morning to the bed of his father being empty is a climactic moment
because it represents how different Eliezer's experience had made him.  From the boy who
listened to Moshe's experience about wishing to ask God "the right questions" to a being
where survival is all that matters and to one where the traditionalist notions of right/
wrong have been inverted to a level where all reality had lost the moral compass of
ethical direction, the death of Eliezer's father is one of those moments where so much
had transpired.  It also helps to bring out the full meaning of the ending whereby
Eliezer does not fully understand the reflection that stares back at
him.