For example the Jews were forced to observe the painful death of other prisoners. The Nazis use death as threat to maintain their authority, keep the prisoners in fear and prevent them from rebelling. Elie is astound to know how cruel the Nazis are, the Nazis made death to be full of suffering and pain. This shows that the Nazi lacked something called Humanity. One can question how does one human torture another with unimaginable brutality.
While Elie and his father were at the train, after the acts of the Jews they realized that the fear makes people evil. We can see that the fear made Jews evil in the train because they were trying to kill each other in the train to survive, and they were also throwing the death bodies out of the train. “Throw out all the dead! All corpses outside!” (Wiesel 94).
Sydney J. Harris once said, “The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts : to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say ‘I was wrong.” But how do people learn what is wrong or right, what is unjust, and what is morally acceptable? Life experiences of injustice give us a feeling that something is just not right, but it takes a truly powerful story or person to truly persuade a person what injustice truly means. In Sounder by William H. Armstrong, when the Boy’s father is arrested he learns that even though people are good at heart it does not mean they are not subjected to racial prejudice and harsh laws and punishments. Elie Wiesel writes of his first hand experiences
For years, our society has been driven to identify who is “like you”. Often times, this includes excluding and judging others because they are not similar to you. Every person is a complex bunch made up of objectives, feelings, and other characteristics that can be different than ours. It is easier to disregard a person as less human and less worthy than we are. The term othering is when one views or treats someone as different from oneself because the group or individual is mentally classifies as “not one of us”.
Can one avoid savagery after an extremely traumatizing experience? Elie Wiesel can not, after being in 3 of the Germans concentration camps. Elie ultimately changes in regards to others, and in his commitment to his father. Elie changes in regards to others.
The “Night” is Dark Can you imagine going on a hayride with two hundred people in a wagon meant for twenty five people. Now imagine that the wagon is enclosed from all sides with just one hole in the ceiling for air. How do you feel? Now imagine that this hayride will last for three days without any bathroom breaks or much to eat or drink.
David Tejada Mrs. Jass 4/5 CHELA 17 April 2023 Despair “It’s over. God is no longer with us.” (Wiesel 76). Elie Wiesel said this in the book Night to signify the true despair he was experiencing.
Raymond Greenlees Miss Crook Adv. Composition Honers 20 March 2023 Inhumanity within Night Cruelty is the intentional infliction of pain and suffering on another person, and the Nazis committed this to an entire group, just ask Elie Wiesel.
When growing up in a certain environment and raised under certain narratives it can be easy to let emotion take control of particular circumstances. Is humankind inherently kind or inherently cruel? That is the question. The book Night by Ele Wiesel is a memoir that follows the story of a teen boy experiencing the holocaust toward the end of WWII alongside his father in Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Nazi, Germany. Due to Wiesel's experiences, we can conclude that humankind is inherently cruel.
Evil comes in many form. It can start off as something innocent only it actually can be a seed that was been planted to grow into a tree of evil. Elie has experienced evil first handedly. He lived through the Holocaust and is one of the very few Jewish survivors. He even shared his story among all of us, in hopes that this evil may never be forgotten or repeated.
Imagine knowing your fate ahead of time. That single moment would be stuck in your head, replayed every second to prevent it. This would obstruct your feeling of morals, making you only focus on your own survival. Nothing would get in your way of trying to survive. During the Holocaust, many people were faced with this moment when they stepped in a concentration camp.
“From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me,” Wiesel 109. This quote relates to the thesis by proving if something traumatic happens it's very emotionally draining as well as physically draining. The novel Night, by Elie Wiesel tells us how inhumanity affects people by being forever traumatized and losing their own humanity. Eternal traumatization is caused by inhumanity. For instance,”The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine has never left me,” Wiesel 109.
Nobel Peace Prize to author Elie Wiesel, there are good things that come from bad experiences. Elie spent a year of his life in Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Holocaust in the concentration camps. Writing down these experiences in the novel, Night, has won him the Nobel Peace Prize for human rights. I believe these events during the Holocaust have influenced his life and are reflected in his retelling of the story. Being dehumanized puts a perspective of how life without rights can be during the Holocaust.
First thing that readers may notice about the book “Night” is that throughout the book you can see so many different ways of inhumanity. In the book “Night” Elie, the main character, goes through countless things at the Nazi concentration camps and there is a lot to break down throughout the book. Elie Wiesel develops the theme of inhumanity through symbols and imagery. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel the theme of inhumanity is developed by symbols throughout the book.
Inhumanity and Cruelty in Night Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany, conducted a genocide known as the Holocaust during World War II that was intended to exterminate the Jewish population. The Holocaust was responsible for the death of about 6 million Jews. Night is a nonfiction novel written by Eliezer Wiesel about his experience during the Holocaust. Many events in the novel convey a theme of “man’s inhumanity to man”. The prisoners of the concentration camps are constantly tortured and neglected by the German officers who run the camps.
