Examples Of Inhumanity In Night By Elie Wiesel

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World War II has no shortage of examples demonstrating man’s inhumanity to man: the atomic bombs, the Holocaust, the fire bombings, and the war itself all evidence the horrors that humans can visit upon other humans. Night, by Elie Wiesel, establishes certain examples of cruelty, like tossing infants into fire and using babies as target practice. Fire is the common theme in these examples, as much of the death resulting from the war and genocide is attributable to fire. Thus, inhumanity and fire are linked by the human capacity for violence. When the people of Sighat learn of the horrors Moishe the Beadle witnessed, they didn’t believe it; they couldn’t even imagine one human doing the things he described to another human being. Wiesel himself