Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

This year in English, I had to read Night by Elie Wiesel during the time in class we were learning about Holocaust. The memoir was about a young teenager life in Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp during the Holocaust. While reading this book, I learned many things like how some people did not give up, how Nazis dehumanized prisoners and how Eliezer and many people were changing throughout the Holocaust. While reading Night, I also learned how some people did not give up including Eliezer. Half way through the memoir, you would notice that Eliezer is giving up slowly by slowly but he gets himself up for his father. Many prisoners who believed that god would do the right thing and help them through there but that did not happen. For example, Akib Drummer

Dehumanization made people feel like they are worthless. When they came to the camp, they were dehumanized by giving less food and crammed them into barracks which had little space to sleep, they also stripped them and cut their hair. Nazi generals took their belongings and valuables from Jews. Jews and other targeted groups were tattooed numbers to get registered. On Eliezer’s first day of the camp, “Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky”(Wiesel 34). On Eliezer's first day he passes by a pit where babies were thrown. Nazi threw children, men and women’s bodies into piles of bodies and then burnt them. Victims were also forced to march if one falls to the ground, then they would kill them immediately. When Jews were sent place to place, they were crammed into a cattle car which included “eighty...in the car” (Wiesel 24) and then “100 or so in the wagon” (Wiesel 103). This explains how people got really thin and more people were able to fit in at the end of the memoir. Dehumanization took a big role in the

In the Beginning, Eliezer believed in God and it’s power but after being dehumanized and tortured he has lost faith in God. He says that,”I no longer accepted God’s silence” (Wiesel 69), Eliezer does not like how God’s not helping them get through the horrible time. One evening when Eliezer went to eat after witnessing a death, he finds “the soup excellent one evening” (Wiesel 60). But when he witness a young pipel from Buna’s death he finds, “the soup tasted of corpses” (Wiesel 65). Wiesel felt horrible because the young pipel did not know what’s happening and he was hung for something he did not do. In the text, Eliezer wanted to kill himself (Wiesel 33). But soon enough, Eliezer’s thought of his father keeps him alive. He thought about what his father would if Eliezer died, his father would not have anyone or a reason to be alive and he will suddenly die as well. At the end of the book when Eliezer’s father died, Eliezer felt “free at last!” (Wiesel 112). Eliezer did not have to worry about his father anymore and he was glad and upset but did not his emotions. Eliezer changed a lot from the beginning to the end of the