Someone can keep their sense of humanity even when faced with evil and cruelty by keeping empathy and compassion towards others. Throughout human history, there have been events that have led people to ask. Why would someone do such a thing? Inside the two books Night by Wiesel and “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Goodrich and Hackett, an incredibly evil event is taking place, in particular, The Holocaust. The Holocaust was performed by German officers led by Adolf Hitler. He killed approximately six million Jewish people inside gas chambers, and incinerators, shooting them, starving them, and even working them to death. Survivors of the Holocaust have even stated that they could not even recognize who they were. Meaning that they were, starved so brutally that by the time they saw themselves in a mirror, they were …show more content…
One specific example of humanity being preserved is when Eliezer, inside the book Night, feels ashamed and embarrassed at even the thought of leaving his father. This is shown (Wiesel 106) in the story when it says, “If only I had relieved myself of this responsibility, I could use all of my strength to fight for my survival, to take care only of myself.Instantly, I felt ashamed, ashamed of myself.” Eliezer is frigidly talking about his fragile and ill father to have a chance of survival. He then comes to his senses and realizes those thoughts are awful and wrong. Realizing how he could just leave his father like that after all they had been through. Without him, he believed that he would not have been able to survive telling the story. On page fourteen of Night, a sign of hope is shown. A friend of Wiesles father had come to their home. He was an inspector of the Hungarian police. The inspector was trying to reach them from the outside by knocking on a window facing outside. By the time the Wiesel family had gotten to the