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Animal Imagery In Night And A Raisin In The Sun

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The idea that a movement can be so impactful that a whole society can change and influence other countries is one of the scariest things a person can hear. If this movement grows, the entire planet can be in danger. This happened with the Eugenics Movement and the racial laws they inspired. This research paper examines Edwin Black’s article, “Hitler’s Debt to America,” in which he shows how the Eugenics movement and how America helped influence this movement in other countries. The following paragraph will connect the Dehumanization and animal imagery in Elie Wiesel and Robert Nemiroff’s books “Night “and “A Raisin in the Sun.” These two authors portray the amount of animal imagery and Dehumanization occurring in these two different countries. …show more content…

In the book Night and A Raisin in the Sun, they both shared the animal but were used in different situations. “The SS made is increase our pace.” Faster, you tramps, you flea-ridden dogs!” (85). This textual evidence shows how the SS officers were not even treating the Jews as humans; they were dehumanizing and mistreating them, causing them to have a loss of self and think about what they were doing. “Well, Lord knows, we’ve put enough rent into this here rat trap to pay for four houses by now” (44). This quote shows how Ruth was getting tired of the living situation they had been living their whole life and spending money on something that did not feel like home. In the book “Night,” the SS officers kept mistreating the Jews and still dehumanizing them to the point that they did not even feel like humans anymore; they felt like robots that kept going and never stopped. “Faster, you filthy dogs!” We were no longer marching; we were running.Like automatons”(85).This text shows that the Jews did not feel like they had feelings or even knew what they were doing; they just kept running to the point that they just felt like robots obeying commands. In the book “A Raisin in the Sun” shows how Travis tells Beneatha to leave the cockroaches because they are not bothering her. “Leave them poor little cockroaches alone, they ain’t bothering you none” (55). The text shows how the animal imagery on the roaches symbolizes the living conditions the Youngers had to live in. With all the evidence shown through these two books, It shows how the animal imagery used in these books were made to show Discrimination, Dehumanisation, and Persecution occurring throughout

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But no one replaced us”. This shows that the guards are being subbed in and out to watch over the prisoners but the Jews had to walk for hours without any stopping and no one could sub in for them and take a break. He describes the cold, hunger, and death that he and his fellow prisoners face every day. He also uses powerful metaphors to show the dehumanization of the Jews, such as when he writes that "the SS was no longer human beings. They were beasts with human faces, men with the morals of animals.

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Weisell explains what life was like in a concentration camp; “ Hunger- thirst- fear- transport- selection- fire- chimney: these words all have intrinsic meaning, but in those times they meant something else (Weisellix).” The Jews were treated not as humans because they were not viewed as such in the eyes of the Nazi’s.

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Luke spoerel Ms. Gribbin 7 / February / 2023 English 8 Nothing Left No food, no water, and barely any life, were the conditions that Elie Wiesel a 15 year old holocaust survivor had to endure for 11 months. Imagine you are crammed into small cattle carts and transported to a camp, where you are forced to do hard labor, given no food, and the chance of survival is close to none. All because of your religion. In the book, Night, by Elie Wiesel dehumanization is shown when you are selected either to live or to die based on how you looked, Having to fight and kill others just for a piece of bread and being forced to run until they physically could not.

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Throughout the novel Night and throughout the history of the holocaust, Nazis dehumanized Jewish prisoners with both language and actions. Nazis treated Jewish prisoners like animals; when they behaved well, they were rewarded with extra soup or bread and when they misbehaved, they were physically tortured or even killed. They were also referred to as numbers rather than names. This is shown when Elie Wiesel states, “I never felt anything except the lashes of the whip... Only the first really hurt,” (Wiesel 57).

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In the autobiographical Holocaust novel, Night by Elie Wiesel, the motif of Jewish people being animals illustrates how genocide makes people resort to animalistic senses. When Soviet forces were approaching the concentration camp where Elie Wiesel was enslaved, Buna, the Nazis forced the Jews to walk for hours to another camp in Germany. While on the march Wiesel describes how “if one of us [Jews] stopped for just a second, a quick shot would eliminate the filthy dog”(Wiesel, 85). Wiesel is referring to his own community as a “filthy dog”, the connotations of this phrase imply submission and inferiority. The non-human connotations of this phrase demonstrate how torture and harrassment from the Nazis is making him see himself as less than

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The severely cruel conditions of concentration camps had a profound impact on everyone who had the misfortune of experiencing them. For Elie Wiesel, the author of Night and a survivor of Auschwitz, one aspect of himself that was greatly impacted was his view of humanity. During his time before, during, and after the holocaust, Elie changed from being a boy with a relatively average outlook on mankind, to a shadow of a man with no faith in the goodness of society, before regaining confidence in humanity once again later in his life. For the first 13 years of his life, Elie seemed to have a normal outlook on humanity.

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