Examples Of Humanity In Night By Elie Wiesel

Struggles. Something everyone has gone through like failing an exam, or maybe losing a family member. Those struggles would probably be the end of the word for some people. But what Elie Wiesel has gone through far worse at such a young age. He dealt with being in a holocaust camp. He had to go through being dehumanized, starved, over worked and he struggled with staying alive. Something in him made him persevere through this horrible time. Stamina. During Elie’s time at the holocaust he showed stamina. He shown it though physical stamina.

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.

Night Profishency The moment that Elie arrived at Auschwitz the conflict with his father affected him the most. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel. Throughout the book, Elie struggles to stay near his father and not get separated. During their time at the concentration camp, Elie and his father face many struggles and conflicts.

The Holocaust was a time where a genocide wiped away Jews in many countries. Many Jews were treated with little to no respect and tolerance. Throughout the book, Night, the author portrayed many examples of inhumanity and humanity involved in the Holocaust. It is important to realize that during the time of the Holocaust, many Jews were not treated like humans.

Inhumanity can be defined as, the quality or state of being cruel or barbados. The Holocaust is an example of large scale prejudice and discrimination towards one ethnicity of people. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the sheer scale of absolute disrespect and disregard for human life is narrated by Eliezer, who encounters endless hellish behavior against him and his family. At the age of twelve, Eliezer is separated from his mother and three sisters at the onset of a concentration camp.

Targeting people due to their identity. Murdering tens of thousands of innocent people. Disrespecting the deceased. These three scenarios all depict man’s inhumanity to man. The oppression of mass amounts of people is often portrayed in not only life, but also in literature and film. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel describes the inhumanity he endured while in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Additionally, in the film Hotel Rwanda, the producers portray the acts of atrocities toward Tutsi and Hutu refugees during the Rwandan genocide. Inhumanity is a universal cruelty toward human life which man often “turns a blind eye to” due to their apathy.

When it comes to retaining one’s humanity in the face of suffering a person has the choice to preserve it or not. To elaborate, in the novel, Night, there where instances were the loss of humanity was evident. Such as, when Elie witness the prisoners “instincts of self-preservation, of self-dense, [and] of…[desert them]”(Wiesel 36). And others were the loss of humanity wasn’t evident. Specifically, when Elie gets help from a French woman who states,” Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day…the day will come but not now” (53). All in all, these instances were what made up the whole story. As they accumulated, the question of whether a person had the ability to retain their humanity or not became apparent and, rather, hard to

Elie Wiesel suggests how dehumanization is necessary in survival situations through metaphor. Wiesel compares the selection to the Last Judgement: “All the block inmates stood naked between the rows of bunks. This must be how one stands for the Last Judgement” (71). Wiesel suggests that the camp is a living hell on earth that horrifies the inmates to lose their humanity. One can imply that the camps judge what the inmates try to do to survive. For example, when Akiba Drumer and a rabbi are not dehumanized they “[lose] all incentive to fight and [open] the door to death” (77). As a result of losing his faith, Elie “[forgets] to say Kaddish” because he found religion meaningless in the camps (77). From this, Wiesel emphasizes that when people dehumanize in survival situations they “[lose] all

An example of the Jews being tortured by the Nazi guards would be on page 37 when Elie’s father gets struck across the face.“I did not move. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, before my very eyes, and I had not flicked an eyelid.”(Wiesel 37). Elie doesn’t react because he has become emotionally numb to the horrific things happening to him. Being desensitized makes the prisoners turn into animals and do things that they would not do under normal circumstances. On page 101 people are throwing bread into the cattle cars where the prisoners are being transferred to another camp. The prisoners kill each other in order to get the bread because they have become like hungry animals. An old man on a cattle car grabbed a piece of bread and decided to hide it so the others wouldn't notice. A man did see the old man take the bread and started beating him. It was the old man’s son that was killing him for the food. “Meir. Meir, my boy! Don’t you recognize me? I’m your father…you’re hurting me…you’re killing your father! I’ve got some bread…for you too…for you too….” (Wiesel 101). Before the holocaust none of the prisoners would have killed their own father but because they have been so dehumanized they will do anything to survive. The prisoners lose their humanity and faith in their religion because of the way they are treated by the SS

In Elie Wiesel’s autobiography, “Night” there are many examples of dehumanization from start to finish. Dehumanization is stripping a person of every quality that makes them human. This includes their identity, individuality, and soul. The Night shows the process by which the Nazis reduced the Jews to little more than “things” which were a nuisance to them. The book takes place in World War 2, in the Holocaust. Eliezer and his family are very much directly affected by actions taken by the Nazis as well as all the other Jews. Throughout the whole book, the Nazis use practices such as beatings, starvation, theft of possessions, separation of families, crude murders, forced labor, and many more actions represented through the text of this book that are all examples of dehumanization. Eliezer, the narrator of the story, arrived at the concentration camp of Auschwitz when he was fifteen years old. He arrived by the transportation of cattle cars. Within the various camps, Eliezer spent ten months of abuse and dehumanization. He lost so much due to the Germans.

Inhumanity. The cruelest of people are responsible for this. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses imagery, tone, and characterization to show the effects of inhumane actions. Night is about a young boy and his father who get separated from the rest of their family during selection of the Holocaust. This story tells how Elie survived his times in the concentration camps, even with all of the inhumane actions of the Germans.

The actions the Nazis committed during WWII were unbearable for even the strongest people. Prisoners were tortured, starved, and slaughtered just for being Jewish. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, had to endure the atrocities at the age of 15. Wiesel describes these events in his memoir Night. A result of the dehumanization and other cruelty that he faces leads Elie Wiesel to a loss of his faith.

According to article five of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights article five, “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” (United Nations Department of Public Information ). In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel narrates his story as a young Jewish boy during the Holocaust. The captured Jews were sent to concentration camps where they received the absolute worst forms of torture, abuse, and barbaric treatment. The diabolical treatment has clear physical effects, but it also ventilates psychological changes on those that are unfortunate enough to encounter it. However, these transfigurations to their complexion and righteousness cannot be accredited to the weakness of the Jewish adore, but rather to the remorseless treatment they received. Elie Wiesel, in his novel Night, exhibits the brutal torture and punishment he receives, in order to display just how horrendous the German Nazis’ dehumanization of the Jews was.

“Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible, even these crematories” (Wiesel 30).

When living through the holocaust the SS men were continuously cruelty to keep the prisoners in fear of them so they are easy to control. Elie Wiesel uses his personal experiences from living in the camps to write the memoir Night. The memoir shows how cruelty can change a person's personality, and how they react and treat other people. Cruelty is not always a physical thing, the SS men used emotional cruelty to bend the prisoners to there will. Several cruel things happened to the prisoners, but the Nazis were not the only ones who were cruel. The prisoners became rude and ruthless to each other.