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Examples Of Cruelty In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Cruelty is something that no human being deserves especially in awful inhumane ways. In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night his writing shows what great evil humans are capable of during the holocaust. In situations of power humans are capable of limitless cruelty. The camp workers brutally killed, stripped them of all their identities and tortured the Jews. At the concentration camp the innocent Jews were killed for invalid reasons and treated like cattle. Elie’s first observation inside Auschwitz was the horrific sight of hundreds of young children being thrown into a giant burning pit of fire. “Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky”(34). The human children were slaughtered
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