Night is just one of many memories written by Elie Wiesel. Who survived the Holocaust. In Night he narrates the experience of the deaths of his family members, the death of his adolescence and the death in his naive belief in man’s innate goodness. The power of the genre of the memoir is that it captures experience and insists that forgetting about such crimes against humanity is not an option, neither for Wiesel no for the reader. A key point is Dehumanization, dehumanization is to deprive human qualities. The second key point is Propaganda, Propaganda is the spreading of political ideas, information in a way. The last key point is the Inhumane Outcome, the inhumane outcome is cruel and heartless. The genocide in Armenian was similar to the Holocaust because the oppressors used tactics of dehumanization and successful propaganda; both of which led to the inhumane outcome of each genocide. …show more content…
“At that moment in time, all that mattered to me was my daily bowl of soup, my crust of stale bread. The bread, the soup-those were my entire life. I was nothing but a body. Perhaps even less: a famished stomach. The stomach alone was measuring time.” They are strippping him of his humanity becoming animal like. Like animals they do not feel emotions, so Elie is only feeling his body being starved. Confined in small spaces and denied their individuality, the Jews become anonymous beings concerned solely with their own survival. Food was definitely all that consumed Elie’s thoughts. He was only focused on keeping his body alive and the food he was receiving each day. They were no longer people to the Nazis, and unable to prove that they were not simply animals, they began to act as if they