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Examples Of Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

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“We were incapable of thinking. Our senses numbed, everything faded into a fog. We no longer clung to anything.” (Wiesel 36) The Holocaust was a very harsh time to live in and stripped Jews of anything and everything they had. During this time, millions of Jews were murdered, along with thousands being beaten publicly. This became such a normal occurrence, the Jews began to normalize it. The novel Night shows Elie Wiesel’s firsthand experience of the Holocaust. During the holocaust, there were many instances in which the Jews were dehumanized, such as starving, taking away their identity, and becoming numb to everything. He experienced some things during this time that changed his life forever, and some things he will never forget. During the …show more content…

At this point, all Elie had left of himself was his name, and he had got that taken away. He was known as a number. Elie and all the other Jews involved in the Holocaust felt like nothing but an object. “The idea of dying, ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist in the world. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing. To break rank, to let myself slide to the side of the road.”(Wiesel 86). The idea of death seemed to look better than the idea of living any longer, to Elie. He had no will to live anymore, the Holocaust did not bring him any reason for life. He thought everything would be solved if he were dead. He didn’t see reason in going on with life if he was just going to feel like an object. One more way that the Jews were dehumanized by the Holocaust was the fact that they became numb to everything. During the Holocaust, the Jews became so used to the behavior that went on it became normalized. There were very harsh consequences that occurred during this time, such as public beatings and hangings. After the first few times they happened, it did not seem to faze them anymore. “We were incapable of

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“At every step, somebody fell down and ceased to suffer.” This quote by Elie Wiesel explains the people that were Giving up after hunger and loss of family and he noticed these things everyday at the camps and lived to tell the tragic story in his book Night. Dehumanization was a major occurrence in the concentration camps which killed off over six million Jews. Lack of food, cramped and exhausting ways of transportation and separation of families during the Holocaust was the worst ways of dehumanizing the Jews and it was going on for years with no help. Food was scarce for the Jews in some areas around World War Two, so every little thing mattered evento the point of killing others.

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