Examples Of Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

“I became A-7713, from then on, I had no other name.” The jews were given a number as a label instead of their names. During the holocaust and a repeating occurrence in the book night, many people especially the jews were stripped of their rights and identity. This is dehumanization, depriving a group of positive human qualities. During the years 1938-1945 jews were targeted to be exterminated.

In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he utilizes a simile to develop the theme that everyone should be treated equally no matter their culture and religion and they should not be belittled over what they believe in. Wiesel uses the motif of dogs compared to humans in a careless tone in chapter 2. This focusses on dehumanization because the germans always would make the jews feel as if they were nothing and they would brutally break the jews down piece by piece. Later it mentions “Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine gun” (Wiesel 6). This supports my claim because when it says this it is showing that they used the babies as material.

On January 30th, 1933, One of the greatest atrocities in human history took place: the Holocaust. The Book, Night, by Elie Wiesel is a memoir of his time at the infamous concentration camp, Auschwitz. The events that took place there were tragic examples of dehumanization. Dehumanization is the act of depriving someone of their basic human rights and qualities, and it’s one of the biggest parts of Elie Wiesel’s time during the Holocaust Body-

Twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel spends much time on Jewish mysticism. His instructor, Moshe the Beadle, returns from a near-death experience and warns that Nazi aggressors will soon threaten the serenity of their lives. Even when the family and Elie were pushed to ghettos they remained calm and compliant. In spring, authorities begin shipping trainloads of Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex. In a cattle car, eighty villagers can hardly move and have to survive on minimal food and water.

Elie Wiesel use metaphor,rhetorical question, and metaphor to demonstrates that dehumanization ultimately causes negative,mental, and physical changes in victims. Wiesel use of metaphor to demonstrate the loss of humanity. For example in chapter four page 63 Elie Wiesel states that “These withered bodies had long forgotten the bitter taste of tears”. To show that they did not cry. They did nothing to not die.

Stripped of Human Qualities In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the theme dehumanization of human beings is shown by taking away their name, disrespectful treatment of the deceased, and the harsh beatings of innocent Jews. To begin, after arriving in Auschwitz, stripped of their families, lives and all their identifying possessions, the Germans took the only thing the Jewish people had left. Wiesel describes, “The three ‘veterans,’ with needles in their hands, engraved a number on our left arms. I became A-7713.

Elie Wiesel had his whole life to tell when he retold and wrote down Night. He was not telling these truths because he felt that it would be entertaining, or funny, or scary. He wanted to warn readers that this should never happen again. By giving the perspective of an actual Holocaust victim, an oppressed individual of the camps they were forced into, it can give a more human aspect to Night. This book emphasizes the point of why this should never happen again, the true cruelty, and the dehumanization and indifference from every single angle, and emphasizes the dehumanization of the prisoners, the suffering they endured, and how they subconsciously not only stopped the guard’s sympathy for prisoners but also the sympathy for each other, and

(pg. 100) This quote shows that some Jewish men were so hungry that men were fighting over a little piece of bread in a dirty wagon. Having their identity taken away from them was also another big thing that Jewish people had to go through with the Germans. “I had watched it all happen without moving. I kept silent.

Hitler’s goal for the Holocaust was to exterminate all Jews. Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, is about a Jew’s life during the Holocaust. It tells his life story from when he was living in his own house, to when he was put into ghettos, the ride to the camps and so on. Elie Wiesel experiences dehumanization by disinfection, abuse, tattoos, and being treated like merchandise.

Not only does the land suffer from a break in the sacred connection between farmer and crops, the men lose a part of their humanity to the machine. Those "men" who run the tractors are described in the novel as being "part of the monster (Steinbeck, 48)." They have given their humanity to the company in return for money to buy food that was produced by machines, not by men. Chapter eleven describes the slow degrading of the spirits of the tractor men and the migrants who no longer know the land. The slow deterioration of the houses, with no people to care for and be sheltered by them, is symbolic of the death of the land and the people when they are not connected. (Steinbeck 158-159)

When Boxer cannot work any longer the pigs have him killed, showing that a world in which honesty sensitivity and decent has been demolished. The first parallel between 'Animal Farm' and the Russian revolution is important because they are the problem that stirs up the revolution. Tsar and Jones. Tsar was the leader of Russia in the times before the revolution.

Those of the lower classes as in society are forced to be concerned almost exclusively with survival, living in dark filthy Closter-phobic quarters, forced to work and provide children to be used as replacements for pieces of the train that seize to stop working. They are forced to live by the ideologies invented by those of higher cultural standing. As the revolutionists make their way up the train they discover that the “protein” bars that they have been given as their only source of food to survive over the past 7 years are nothing but mashed cockroaches cut into gelatin blocks. They were led to believe that this was the only food source aboard the train but as they continue pushing forward they discover that the font of the train has an abundance of food with those of the upper classes enjoying sushi, chicken, vegetables, and liquor. When the revolutionists take control of the water purification compartment they threaten to shut off the water to the front of the train but they are mocked and laughed at by their hostage Mason, an evil weasel of a woman who embodies the hatred and fear that the front of the train has for the end, she tells them “You would only be dooming yourselves, all water comes from the front of the train” showing once again that they are at the mercy of those from the front of the train.

Throughout the novel Animal Farm, there was always some sort of enemy. These enemies were crucial to the story, that for the pigs to always put blame where it would be necessary to keep the animals in line. In the novel, there were more than one enemy, and each enemy had its own reason for being an “enemy”.

First of all, the article is relevant to Animal Farm because the Ethiopians in the article are hungry like the animals living on Animal Farm. In the article, it says that Ethiopians are “desperately short of food,” while the novella says that “Starvation seemed to stare them in the face,” on page 74. The article explains how famine is actually a result of political oppression. For example, a past war Ethiopians were fighting in caused food to be sent to soldiers rather than civilians. Likewise, the pigs took all of the milk and apples for themselves on page 36: “So, it was agreed without further argument that the milk and the windfall apples (and also

They decided to put the deer through immense torture and suffering just so that after all he exertion, the meat of the deer of would be tenderized which would improve the taste of the dish. Although, it can be argued that the villagers did this because they were ignorant of any other method that would ‘‘tenderize the meat’’, it would not be completely unfair to say that they were hard-hearted as the pain of the struggling deer failed to move them and put its life to an end as quickly as possible. Thus, they represent the type of people in society who would stop at nothing in order to achieve their personal goals even if it meant putting another person in a difficult