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An Analysis Of Elie Wiesel's Night

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Amid the midst of the Holocaust, millions of Jews, Gypsies, Handicapped, and Homosexuals went through extermination and among all the victims Elie Wiesel lived to tell his story. Elie Wiesel wrote this story so something like this would never occurred again. In “Night” Elie Wiesel and his family witnessed and experienced the horrific treatment and genocide of Jews which led to them becoming practically emotionless and abnormal.
Throughout “Night”, Elie Wiesel described in deep detail the everyday routine at the camp. The first barracks had a floor and a few skylights on the floor and for the next barracks they arrived to “There was no floor. A roof and four walls. Our feet sank in the mud.” Where they figured out where they would work …show more content…

They killed babies and most women right away by throwing them in the furnace;This was the same for older men and women. When they ordered the prisoners to run there would be officers with batons and whips hitting people passing by. It got to the point where it was not painful after a few hits. Elie Wiesel said that “Around five o’clock in the morning, we were expelled from the barrack. The kapos began to beat us again, but I no longer felt the pain.” which shows that they were being beaten the Jews everyday, every chance they would get. The punishments were cruel as well. In “Night”, “An ordinary inmate does not have the right to mix into other people’s affairs. One of you does not seem to have understood this point. I shall therefore try to make him understand clearly, once and for all.” and for that Elie Wiesel was whipped 25 times for catching his boss having sex with one of the female prisoners. A prisoner was shot for trying eat some soup on the ground. With that in mind, Hitler used this tactic to pry the self-confidence and emotion out of the prisoners ultimately dehumanizing the Jews. By the first few days in the concentration camp, Elie’s father already had a blank face and showed no emotion towards anything. And obviously you can tell it was a

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