Inhumanity In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Night Sometimes life may offer unexpected things in an unexpected time leaving us to face with the world that can change for the worse. The world that was once being imagined as a perfect place, for a short span of time can turn into dread, crashing us down so hard that prohibits to stand up again. The famous book “Night” written during the darkness period of time of Elie Wiesel is an autobibliographical book about his brutal experiences of Nazi Germans concentration camps in Auschwitz and Buchenwald that beastly illustrates the idea of life changing moments. His heart touching lesson taught many readers how life, in a short period of time can change every good thing, every dream and illusion into terror. While Holocaust took apart many peoples …show more content…

Inhuman acts are constantly circling around throughout the whole book, depicting the lack of considering others and displaying cruelty rather than kindness especially when it comes to Elie and his father. Inhumanity towards Elie are performed by everyone along with Kapos, Nazis and even by other Jew prisoners, which demonstrates the idea that anyone with the status of authority has the power to mistreat other people, in this case Elie as not being a human anymore. The sense of inhumanity creates a big influence of perpetuating Elies perfect world illusion, as he becomes aware of the concept of living and surviving a situation where peoples are no longer treated as humans, thus affecting the humanity among Jews as well. As one of the prisoners …show more content…

As he found himself around people and an ambient where everyone survives for himself, he became aware that he has many responsibilities to do compared to his before concentration camp life. Elie develops new ideas based on the responsibilities that each individual possesses as he confronts with corruption. As he encountered with his father’s hard sickness, Elie understood that he holds many burdens that should be completed, since he wasn’t a child anymore. Now it was his time to take care of him as he did once for Elie, illustrated as he says "I gave him what was left of my soup. But my heart was heavy. I was aware that I was doing it grudgingly" (107), which depicts how much more Elie is responsible now than ever before. Edie puts his father first before himself and takes over the duty to take care of his father before his own health and pain, thus allowing him to grow and take the reliability of the new real

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