Dehumanization In Elie Wiesel's Night

“Faster, you tramps, you flea-ridden dogs!” This quote reveals dehumanization towards Jews during WWII. In his book, Night, Elie Wiesel recounts the horrifying moments during the Holocaust. Elie experiences several events that lead to dehumanization such as the events in the cattle cars, the Germans throwing food in the cars, and finally, the death of his father.

The Holocaust is one of the most well known historical events to this day. As many as 6 million Jews died at the hands of the Nazi soldiers, and many suspect that there were even more. Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir of Wiesel’s time in various concentration camps during the Holocaust. It begins in Wiesel’s hometown of Sighet, Transylvania, and follow the journey of the main character Eliezer. A few main themes of this historic recount are silence, night, and inhumanity. Night has many examples of inhumanity, specifically violence toward the inmates. Wiesel’s memoir shines a light on the violence and the inhumanity of the Nazis, and this impacts Eliezer, the book’s theme of inhumanity, and the reader.

According to webster's dictionary, dehumanization is treating someone as though he or9 she is not a human being. In"Night"written by Elie Wiesel, the Germans treated the jews like animals, and over time they started acting like it. While many fall victim to the fate of becoming a brute, Elie retains his civility. No matter how viciously they treated Elie, he never loses his love for his father. For example, Elie had a choice to stay in the infirmary and become liberated, or go with his father on the march to Buchenwald and risk death.

Dehumanization is to strip the rights and qualities of a person or people. In the Night, by Elie Wiesel uses tone, imagery and diction to explain how the Jews were punished and how cruel the Nazis were to them. They were stripped of their clothes, forced to work and overworked and stacked like cattle in a slaughter house.

Night written by Elie Wiesel is a first-hand account of the mass genocide, discrimination, and segregation of Jews by Nazi Germany. It’s a powerful testament to what people can bring themselves to do when they refuse to see the humanity in others. An example of this dehumanization is how workers would throw bread into the cattle cars that were transferring starving Jews in between concentration camps just to watch them kill over it. Crowds of workers came to observe and...“Soon, pieces of bread were falling into the wagons from all sides. And the spectators observed these emaciated creatures ready to kill for a crust of bread” (page 101). The spectators alienate them ‘they would kill over a simple piece of bread, what

Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a memoir that recounts his horrific experience of life during the Holocaust. Wiesel is only fifteen when German soldiers invade his home town of Sighet, Transylvania. Before long, the Jews of Sighet are forced into cramped ghettos until they are all sent to concentration camps. For over a year, Wiesel suffers various forms of inhumane treatment as he moves between different concentration camps, eventually ending up in Buchenwald where he is freed along with the rest of the prisoners by the Americans in 1945. Throughout Wiesel’s telling of this story, similes and metaphors really emphasize the dehumanization that Jews and Wiesel himself faced at the hands of their German captors by creating a correlation between the Jewish prisoners and animals.

Dehumanization is to deprive of human qualities such as individuality, compassion, or civility. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, Wiesel’s experiences of dehumanization are reflected through starvation, physical abuse, and mental abuse. Wiesel was put through dehumanization many times in the book Night. The other Jews were put through dehumanization also. Let’s get into more detail about how they were dehumanized.

At this point, the Jews are very comfortable and go so far as to recognize

“He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized” (Fitzgerald) F. Scott Fitzgerald, a famous novel and short story author, wrote in his novel Tender is the Night. This statement can be related to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, as they had become so terrible and set on annihilating the Jews that they became ruthless, inhuman people. Consequently, the dehumanization of the Nazis caused the Jews to become dehumanized and treated as though they were animals. In the memoir Night, Eliezer Wiesel shows how German Nazis carried out the dehumanization of Jews in concentration camps, and how rehumanization was ultimately impossible.

At some point in everyone’s life, one faces a great loss. Dehumanization is the process in which one’s positive human qualities become obsolete or nonexistent. Dehumanization is the greatest loss one can suffer from. The Nazis dehumanized the Jews, and they suffered a loss not many can relate to. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, dehumanization is shown by stripping the Jews of their identities, beating the Jews, and starving the Jews.

66 percent of jews died during the holocaust, ⅓ survived the dehumanization and one of those was Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel was sent to concentration camps during the holocaust. He got separated from the rest of his family at the start, so from then on it was just him and his dad. He showed stamina the whole time by trying to survive and help his dad survive to, this goal to survive put him through many obstacles that he had to surpass. Elie Wiesel went through many seemingly insurmountable obstacles during his time in the concentration camps during the Holocaust.

When I first started reading Night, I immediately knew that I was going to thoroughly enjoy this book. I have always been very interested in history. I am especially interested in learning about the Holocaust. In this book, Eliezer is the narrator of Night and the stand-in for the memoir’s author, Elie Wiesel. Night is written on Wiesel's account of surviving Nazi concentration camps as a teenager. Night tells the story of Eliezer’s physical journey as well as his psychological journey as the Holocaust robs him of his faith in God and exposes him to the deepest inhumanity of which man is capable. I can honestly say I was astonished with the horrors that took place during the Holocaust. My jaw dropped many times while reading this story. My

Dehumanization played a big role in the holocaust the Nazis reduced the Jews from living human beings to objects and numbers. “Night” by Elie Wiesel published in 1958. In the novel “Night” is about Elie and his time in a concentration camp and how he survived the holocaust. Being separated from his mother and sisters and only left with his father.Dehumanization the process in which the Nazis reduced the Jews from people to objects and numbers.

Imagine, losing the part of you that makes you unique, or being treated like you were worth absolutely nothing. Think about losing all that you hold on to: your family, friends, everything that you had. Imagine, being treated like an animal, or barely receiving enough food to live. All of these situations and more is what the Jews went through during the Holocaust. During the period of 1944 - 1945, a man by the name of Elie Wiesel was one of the millions of Jews that were experiencing the wrath of Hitler’s destruction in the form of intense labor and starvation. The novel Night written by the same man, Elie Wiesel, highlights the constant struggle they faced every single day during the war. From the first acts of throwing the Jews into

The ground is frozen, parents sob over their children, stomachs growl, stiff bodies huddle together to stay slightly warm. This was a recurrent scene during World War II. Night is a literary memoir of Elie Wiesel’s tenure in the Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel created a character reminiscent of himself with Eliezer. Eliezer experienced cruelty, stress, fear, and inhumanity at a very young age, fifteen. Through this, he struggled to maintain his Jewish faith, survive with his father, and endure the hardships placed on his body and mind.