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Examples Of Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Through the stages Dehumanization, the gruesome act of stripping one of their positive human qualities or traits. This process happens more than most people realize; it's especially common in any abusive atmosphere. However it is very common for many of the humans that have experienced the act of dehumanization to not even realize it has even happened to them. Alternatively those who do realize notice there are usually stages that one goes through during this time being naivety, survival, and finally acceptance. Being naive is something that almost everyone experiences at least once in their life. However this usually happens during the early stages of life when they are still young and inexperienced. During the beginning of Wiesel's journey we see his naivety during childhood and the way he treats hope and trust towards others (Wiesel 4-6). When going through dehumanization it is often something that most are not used to; this can cause the thoughts and feelings of someone going through it to be naive or childishly hopeful. Through the duration of time that Wiesel was in the ghetto we see his childlike innocence and hope that him and his family will be fine and live life like usual and that he believes the German …show more content…

Every human in existence has felt the need to survive whether it be literally or figuratively. Almost the entirety of Wiesel's journey involved him surviving, we see this most commonly during the time he is in the concentration camps towards the beginning (Weisel 48-56). Surviving can come with many exhilarating feelings and often puts one's body into overdrive and makes strength out of what once was weak. During the events this happens to Wiesel multiple times but especially when he is asked to run for many miles in the freezing cold and is able to go on longer than he ever would if he did not need to survive (Wiesel

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Being the last sentence of the book, and out of all the passages I highlighted this one stood out to me and described Wiesel’s experience in just a few simple sentence. He looked at himself for the first time in many years, and did not recognize himself he saw a different person. This showed me that the concentration camps changed him he was a different person inside and out. The events that occurred to him had scared him so much that the man he saw in the mirror wasn’t him, but one who had been drained of life that looked lifeless from the events occurred in the concentration camps. He was weak and this whole passage embodies his weakness and the whole point of the concentration camps.

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Wiesel also loses hope in humanity because of the violence. For example, he starts to lose faith in surviving because he thinks that humanity has changed as a whole, because all the horrendous things that the Germans are doing. Wiesel has changed through the book because before the holocaust he was hopeful and after he has grown an shell of deliel towards humanity .Wiesel states “One more stab to the heart one more reason to hate. One Less Reason To Live”.

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In this work, Night  by Elie Wiesel, the author expresses that restricting basic needs and one’s individuality, leads way to dehumanization, in which deconstructs a culture.  As Elie’s struggle slowly comes to an end, he analyzes his experience living in concentration camps and the loss of his character, which is emphasized toward the end of the memoir.  While beginning to adjust to the environment and the camp itself, Elie is approached by a hostile gentleman wanting to have his gold crown because of its value. This instance is shown when it says, “If you don't give me your crown, it will cost you much more!"(Wiesel 55). Due to the fact that the camps had given the prisoners, small rations of food, and stripped them of their valuable items, the crown's value had increased.

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