Examples Of Dehumanization In The Book Night

In Elie Wiesel’s novel Night, Wiesel writes about the experiences of Eliezer, his family, and fellow Jews, he explained how the Nazis gradually changes the way the Jews lived little by little. Dehumanization is the process of stripping a person of every quality that makes him human and changing them to fit their needs. Dehumanizing started when Eliezer and other Jews in his community are evacuated from their homes in Sighet. They were transported in cattle cars which related the Jews to no more than livestock. After the harsh transportation the Jews arrived at Auschwitz a concentration camp where Eliezer spent many months of his life. They were whipped, ran, and starved till some of the Jews could not take it. In Elie Wiesel book he explains how he found the stamina to survive these cruel conditions.

Although Eliezer survived the bloodcurdling Holocaust, countless others succumbed to the Nazi’s inhumanity. The Nazi’s progressively reduced the Jewish people to being little more than “things” which were a nuisance to them. Throughout Night, dehumanization consistently took place, as the Nazis oppressed the Jewish citizens. The Germans dehumanized Eliezer, his father, and other fellow Jews for the duration of the memoir Night, which had a lasting effect on Eliezer’s identity, attitude and outlook. Wiesel displays the Nazi’s vicious actions to accentuate the way by which they dehumanize the Jewish population. The Nazis had an abundance of practices to dehumanize the Jews including beatings, starvation, separation of families, crude murders, forced labor, among other horrific actions.

The slaughter of millions of innocent Jews was the outcome in the concentration camps ran by Nazi Germany. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the author, a concentration camp survivor, shows the cruel, inhumane acts by the Nazis in the camps. Elie faced starvation, dehydration, and beatings by the German soldiers. In order to survive, luck and motivation by Elie was needed. In my opinion, he was extremely brave. For example, on page 52, he says, ’’Couldn’t you wait a few days, sir? I don’t feel well, I have a fever.’’ The dentist was going to remove Elie’s ‘’gold crown,’’ but Elie was brave enough to lie. In the beginning of the book, German soldiers invade Hungary and were to put all Jews to concentration camps. When Elie and his father arrive

While Hitler targeted mainly the Jews, he also killed many Muslims, disabled people, Jehovah’s Witness, Serbians, and Slovic people. In the novel Night written by Elie Weisel, the main character, Eliezer, is taken to a concentration camp and experiences near-death situations. Elie Weisel perfectly provides a situation necessitating perseverance. In Elie’s case, perseverance was vital to his survival. Eliezer had his father with him, to ease some of the fear, but times still became difficult. Closer to the end of the book, Eliezer had surgery on his foot, but was then informed that the camp was getting bombed the next morning. In result, Eliezer flees the hospital and finds his father to walk miles on end with SS soldiers and officers. Ellie and the others are told that if the can survive the journey, they would be free. Many people died, but Elie perseveres. Eliezer could have relied on another trait such as trust, but trust wouldn't have helped him as much as perseverance did. Perseverance allowed Elie to survive, and live a long, successful life up until July 2016, when he passed away. Before Elie died, he said he had to make something out of his life. “If I survived, it must be for some reason. I must do something with my life. It is too serious to play games with anymore, because in my place, someone else could’ve been saved. And so I speak for that person. On the other hand, I cannot” (Elie Weisel, CNN

The holocaust is one of the most horrific, disgusting, painful things that have ever happened in history, but how did that affect suffering the victims of this time. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie is affected by the events in the book because he stopped believing in his religion, no longer cared about his father, and lost his humanity.

The Holocaust was one of the most horrific and dehumanizing occurrences that the human race has ever endured. It evolved around cruelty, hatred, death, destruction and prejudice. Thousands of innocent lives were lost in Hitler's attempt to exterminate the Jewish population. He killed thousands of Jews by way of gas chamber, crematorium, and starvation. The people who managed to survive in the concentration camps were those who valued not just their own life but others as well. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author of the novel, Night, expressed his experiences very descriptively throughout his book. When Elie was just fifteen years old his family was shipped off

At the beginning of the book Night, Elie essentially does not believe that people do such horrible acts of hate towards a person or a group of of people, as the Germans do to the Jews. It is until Elie as a child enters the concentration camp, is his childhood and innocence taken away from him, by being ripped away from his mother and sisters, and seeing babies being dumped into furnaces.

The autobiography “Night” written by Elie Weisel, exhibits the tragedies and horrors of the Holocaust. It clearly explains how Eliezer and his family, along with the rest of the Jewish inhabitants were dehumanized during the Holocaust and World War II. This process began when the Jewish community was forced to leave their homes in Sighet, move into ghettos, and then stuffed into concentration camps. In his autobiography, Wiesel described the changes that people under went causing them to dehumanize their own people.

The book of night is a sad book because of the dehumanization and the torture the jews went through like stavation from the Natize and i understand they were just following orders but you can make your own decision especially when you know you are doing the right thing.

Many themes exist in Night, Elie Wiesel’s nightmarish story of his Holocaust experience. From normal life in a small town to physical abuse in concentration camps, Night chronicles the journey of Wiesel’s teenage years. Neither Wiesel nor any of the Jews in Sighet could have imagined the horrors that would befall them as their lived changed under the Nazi regime. The Jews all lived peaceful, civilized lives before German occupation. Eliezer Wiesel was concerned with mysticism and his father was “more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (4). This would change in the coming weeks, as Jews are segregated, sent to camps, and both physically and emotionally abused. These changes and abuse would dehumanize

Within human nature there is a want to act against the corruption and evils of society. A human’s moral compass directs each person to fight against what is considered evil and to praise everything that is believed to be good. “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (The Devil Came on Horseback). This means that in order for humans to rise above the evils of the world, good men have to take action against those who have committed a wrong. “Not a cry of distress, not a groan, nothing but a mass agony, in silence.”(pg.84). Due to Elie and the other Jews submission to the powerful Nazis, the dehumanization of the Jews remained

“In a few seconds, we had ceased to be men” (PG.36). Elie is a jewish boy from Transylvania and is taken to Auschwitz where he is separated from his mother and sister. His father and Elie are moved the the concentration camp called “Buna” and spend most of their time there. They then had to be evacuated to Gleiwitz, where they ran about 42 miles to get there. They spent about 3 days there and then they were transported to Buchenwald by train. There they are rescued by Americans and a resistance part that attacked the camp. Sadly Elie’s father dies in Buchenwald due to a sickness and being sent to the crematory. Dehumanization of the Jewish people in “Night” ,by Elie Wiesel, happened in a variety of ways and helped Hitler achieve his ideas about Jewish people.

Throughout Night, dehumanization consistently took place as the tyrant Nazis oppressed the Jewish citizens. The Nazis targeted the Jews' humanity, and slowly dissolved their feeling of being human. This loss of humanity led to a weakened will in the Holocaust victims, and essentially led to death in many. The Nazis had an abundance of practices to dehumanize the Jews including beatings, starvation, theft of possessions, separation of families, crude murders, forced labor, and much more. There is no greater loss than that of humanity, so one can never truly relate to the horrors of dehumanization the Jews faced. In the list below, I will compile various examples that correlate to this theme of dehumanization.

The nazis dehumanized the Jews so it would be easier to hurt them by treating them as if they were nothing. The nazi soldiers didn’t even call the Jews by their names; they called them by numbers. “ I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Wiesel 60). The Nazis didn’t call them by name because it would have given them human characteristics. The only people that would call him Elie were his family and friends. When ever he was needed, they were called by their number, “ One day, when we had just returned from the warehouse, I was summoned by the block secretary: A-7713?” (69) The nazis didn’t give any respect to any of the Jews.

Women’s physical and mental torture is also well expressed. Some women characters in this novel are treated as minor characters. In some occasions women characters are given a prominent place in the novels of Kurt Vonnegut. The psychological distance women may feel from their bodies might cause them to dehumanize themselves. Sociologists and historians often view dehumanization with aversion and it is always associated with war. Dehumanization attitude leads to World Wars. In the two world wars many innocent people were killed brutally. For example, in Nagasaki and Hiroshima thousands of people were killed mercilessly. They were the innocent victims died for the greediness of a few leaders. A leader must take care of the welfare of the people. But they in turn sacrifice their lives for their whims and fancies. The people are genetically affected and the solution to their disease is yet to be discovered or