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Dehumanization In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

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The minorities of society fell victim to dehumanization at the cruel hands of SS guards

and the inhumane camp where they were held captive for what seemed to be endless periods of

time also like the life in China. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel the SS guards were torturing

2 many innocent people for no apparent reason. In China the kids are forced to work at a young

age with no choice; kids held in concentration camps are forced to work in brutal conditions.

Chinese people had to go through almost the same things that the people in the Holocaust

had to go through. There was a lot of pain and times that people didn’t want to be alive anymore.

In the article Total Dehumanization in China by Alex Jones it states that “ The chinese children …show more content…

The tests that they had

to go through was not easy for some of them. Many jewish people didn’t make it into the

concentration camps because of their health and their age.

The jewish people and many other races had to go through terrifying acts like beatings,

gas chambers, starvation, etc. In the text of the book Night Elie gets his number called. He steps

forward and they push a crate over to him. One of the officers exclaims, “ Lie down on it! On

your belly!” Elie obeyed as he should. He no longer felt anything but the lashes of the whip

hitting him over and over again. The officer took his time between his lashes. He hit him twenty

five times. This may relate to the multiple beatings in China, but not for no reason. But for

3 refusing to follow their laws. In China if you insist on not working they would either kill you on

sight or beat you to death in most cases.

In both China and the Holocaust there was/is many poor working and living conditions.

In the book Elie had to go work and sleep in filthy conditions. Their beds were tiny strips of

wood put together and was infested with diseases. Many people would die and new people

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