Elie from night begins the story as a child who cries when he prays and begs to learn more about his religion “I cried because… because something inside me felt it needed to cry” (4). Inhumane circumstance led to a cause of tears of confusion. Two key themes for inhumanity are lose of faith and also inhumane. Through the book they are oodles characters who try to hold onto their faith, but after all the inhumanity lose it. In fact, when passing by the crematorium Elie shows he is no longer afraid of it “very close to us stood the tall chimney of the crematorium furnace. It no longer impressed us. It barely drew our attention” (104). However, if we look back into the beginning of the novel we can see how Elie and other prisoners were afraid to end in the crematorium. Therefore, at the end it didn’t even call their attention. Therefore, Elie knew his dad would leave him soon and he had to survive “He felt his father growing weaker and believing that the end was near, had thought of this separation to free himself of a burden that could diminish his own chance for survival” (91). Indeed, …show more content…
However, on their way to Kaschau Elie sees how she gets hit on the head “She received several blows to the head that could have been lethal” (26). Thus, we can see how the prisoners were treated and several times wasn't in an good way, in fact the Germans didn’t care if they were kids in the place. Also, in the buna concentration camp Elie saw when the oberkapo was being tortured “The oberkapo was arrested on the spot. He was tortured for weeks at the end, in vain. He gave no names. He was transferred to Auschwitz. And never heard of him aging” (64). hence , Elie sees how the Germans don’t care if the prisoner help them in the camp or not if you did something wrong you died. In fact, through the novel we can see how the prisoners were treated by the Germans in a inhumane