Megalomaniacs In Elie Wiesel's Night And Last Night

One day, when Elie returned from the warehouse, he was summoned by the block secretary to go to the dentist. Elie therefore went to the infirmary block to learn that the reason for his summon was gold teeth extraction. Elie, however pretends to be sick and asks, ”Couldn’t you wait a few days sir? I don’t feel well, I have a fever…” Elie kept telling the dentist that he was sick for several weeks to postpone having the crown removed. Soon after, it had appeared that the dentist had been dealing in the prisoners’ gold teeth for his own benefit. He had been thrown into prison and was about to be hanged. Eliezer does not pity for him and was pleased with what was happening

​ Terrible. Depressing. Horrific. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel many terrible things happened. This book was written about the horrific events that took place during the holocaust. In the beginning of the book a Jewish boy named Elie was separated from his family as they entered a concentration camp, Elie was kept with his father but his mother and sisters were taken away. Every Jewish person was dehumanized by being made to feel unworthy, loss of compassion, and having to be concerned with their survival. ​ Every Jewish person was dehumanized by being made to feel unworthy of their life in Night by Elie Wiesel. Our names are given to us so we can be individually called out. The SS took away the Jewish peoples names. This took away

Night is a recollection of Elie Wiesel’s time spent during the holocaust. It is a gripping tale of survival and death. While it is a small book, it has a huge message. During the time in which the book takes place, the Jewish people were srtripped of their humanity. Elie and his fellow inmates at Auschwitz endure dehumanization throughout starvation and on the train to Buchenwald.

To start, as the men of the camp are called to an assembly, a young Jewish boy, Elie, begins to crave independence and dreams of leaving his father behind, who is all he has left. He wants to “get rid of this dead weight, so that [he can] use all [his] strength to struggle for [his] own survival, and only worry about [himself]” (Wiesel 111). At first, when Elie and his father are brought to the camps, Elie can’t stand the thought of being separated from his dear father, but as the situation grows worse, Elie grows selfish, only looking out for himself. It is a natural reaction for people to be selfish when put in difficult and testing situations, therefore a crisis can blind people to their morals and change their views on life. In addition, Elie’s father grows very sick, and the camp’s doctor tells Elie that given the situation, he should begin to focus on only himself, devoid sympathy for his father, and allow him to die. The doctor’s claim that “there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends. Everyone lives and dies for himself alone” clearly captures how selfishness can easily develop, given the right hardship (Wiesel 115). Rather than continue to help his father, Elie is told to only think of himself during this hardship. During a crisis, everyone longs for survival, and they are willing to hurt their loved ones to reach that goal. Selfishness spreads when times get tough, and rather than work together, one would much rather secure their personal safety than risk their sanity to help others. Selfishness is very common in people during a crisis, because many will secretly seek self preservation over group

Elie's internal conflict is a shifts in an interesting, the unexpected way. Initially his hatred is for the Nazis and this fuels him in an sense. However, after that some time in the camp, as his father had grows weaker, Elie begins to turn his anger toward him, and his weakness. He states that was once, after his father is beaten by the Kapo, that Elie himself had wanted to hit him. When his father began to die, Elie began to wish for the end, and felt relief when it was over. This caused greater conflict within him, as he felt guilty for wishing his father dead and hating him for becoming ill and weak.

Imagine that a group of people came up to somebody and started treating that person terribly. These group of people do not treat the person as a normal human being,but instead treats the person as a lower individual. While some may claim that oppressors dehumanize their victims for more dominance, but others claim that they dehumanize their victims for satisfaction. Despite the multiple reasons of why oppressors dehumanize their victims, is that dehumanizing people is still a horrible action. In Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night, there are many scenes where the oppressors dehumanize their victims. There were dozen of moments where the oppressors had dehumanize their victims for many despicable reasons. By many horrible

Dehumanization and brutality first appears when they first leave for the camp on the train. Once they get on the train, they were told that if one person were to go missing, “they will be shot” (24). Not only would they just be shot, but they would be “shot, like dogs’ (24). The SS officers were putting them against each other, choosing their own life was worth more than the lives of the other Jews. Furthermore, they were dehumanized by being separated by gender. “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (29), these words rang in Elie’s ears. For Elie, “that was the moment when [he] left [his] mother” (29). Separating them was separating families as well. The “eight simple, short words” (29), Elie heard struck his whole

How could such tragedies have happened in the twentieth century? Wiesel appeals to ethos for the obvious reasons. The book is a memoir of his life as a Jewish person during World War II. He is a qualified author for this subject. Often, the reader can forget that the story is an autobiography.

Conformity and rebellion affect people in many different ways. Those who defy social norms are often unaccepted or even punished. Also, taking the risk to rebel triggers fright in individuals. Whether it is the fear of physical harm or social intolerance, it takes great strength to overcome this fear in order to resist injustice. In Night, many characters experience conformity and rebellion. Elie struggles with his doubts in God. On Yom Kippur, when he was supposed to fast, Elie explains, “And I nibbled my crust of bread. In the depths of my heart, I felt a great void” (66). By eating on Yom Kippur, Elie stages his personal revolt against his religion. As Elie witnesses the horrors of the Holocaust, he loses his faith in God. He describes,

In the world both have faced many different types of adversity and plenty of different ways. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie was facing adversity in every step he took. Every day was a new challenge to live. Every camp was just as worse as the last. Jews were forced to work in camps every day of their lives and live with little food and resources, yet through it all he still lived in the camps even when death and religion were on the line.

The human race has always struggled with the simple task of being humane. This started with the people killing over land, all the way to terrible events, such as the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel does a great job in his book, Night, talking about some of the things the Nazis did. The Nazis treated the Jewish people in the most inhumane way history has ever seen. The book approaches this just by throwing it directly in one’s face. Elie has a lot to say about humanity and inhumanity, as does Morrie Schwartz. Morrie is a Professor at Brandeis University and does a great job explaining why humanity should overcome inhumanity. Both Elie and Morrie agree that humanity and inhumanity were both very big things in their lifetime and humanity can be achieved through love, and concern for others.

"Never shall I forget that night the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed," -Elie Wiesel, Night. This quote is one of the quotes from Elie Wiesel's book Night that refers to the title of the book. The title of the book is called Night for reasons such as the fact that the first night was what changed his life, it symbolizes the darkness that encased all of their souls, and it also symbolizes how dark and evil the world was. The title Night has a stronger meaning than what it seems.

In a way being selfish is what got humans where they are today.The evolution of humans required competition,and aggressive selfishness. We were forced to be selfish and watch our own back, to always put ourselves first in bad situations. This reaction to put ourselves first is natural, it’s in our blood. However, is the very thing that made us so successful as a species the one thing that so easily tears us apart? As humans we have an incredible capacity to dehumanize others to protect our own self interest.

As humans, we require basic necessities, such as food, water, and shelter to survive. But we also need a reason to live. The reason could be the thought of a person, achieving some goal, or a connection with a higher being. Humans need something that drives them to stay alive. This becomes more evident when people are placed in horrific situations. In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, he reminisces about his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust. There the men witness horrific scenes of violence and death. As time goes on they begin to lose hope in the very things that keep them alive: their faith in God, each other, and above all, themselves.

In the beginning of the story Elie Wiesel and his father were not that close. He says his father worked a lot. This is how Wiesel describes him “My father was a cultured, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his feelings not even with his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than of his own kin”(Wiesel 4). He describes him as a man that worked and didn’t really express his feelings to anyone. Him and his father weren’t that close. Throughout all the events that happen to them in the book he then realizes family is the only thing he has now and he doesn’t want to lose him. Later on, they’re sent to camp and Elie Wiesel and his father are together and that is when they become closer. When they were at these concentration camps he says, “ I tightend my grip on my father’s hand. The old ,familiar fear not to lose him”(Wiesel 104). Before they weren’t that close, later on when they went to these camps they were faced with inhumanity. That got them closer. Now, he feared to lose his father. In the end, this demonstrates that when they faced these cruel things they learned to be closer to each other because they don’t want anything to happen to one