Importance of Father-Son Bonds

Photo from Sheer Luxe

Father-son bonds in this story are an important theme, because Elie makes it an important point that he needs to stay with his father wherever they go.  The father and son in this picture are happy and you can see that they like to be around each other, and so did Elie and his father.  This picture relates to the theme because you see that the father and son seem as though they would do anything for each other, and you see that in the beginning.  But as the story progresses you see that the sons begin to turn on their fathers and vice-versa.