Examples Of Inhumanity In Night

When reading Night you think of it as a non-fiction biography of Elie Wiesel illustrating the events that conspired at Auschwitz. The book Night, to me, is more of a human documentary that showed how cruel mankind could possibly be. It's even notable in the book that most things that happened there were only out of the cruel nests and hatred of man towards man. The Jewish people were no more than victims to Germany's problems, and forced to take the blame. It's all just one big statement of man vs man and that's what it's always been. In Elie Wiesel's book, even the first sentence explains a kind man called moise the beagle who was a part of the Germans first act of hatred. They didn't have a reason to kill them; it was the influence of Adoft

One being the pure suffering of people who were killed by other people and the other being the bond between father and son that slowly faded between the lines of the book. Man’s Inhumanity towards man is just a theme, but it basically summarizes the entirety of night. One of the many acts of inhumanity in Night can be found in chapter 3’s “Never shall i forget” testimony which truly explains the true horrors of what man is capable of doing. This stage in the book is important because it permanently changes Elie forever. He could never look at a child the same way without thinking of what he saw, that first night in Auschwitz. Another example of the theme can be found on page 39, when Elie realizes hes forgotten the will to act. A final event that still keeps Elie up at night is in Chapter 4 where the camp leaders were trying to set an example by executing men, each saying the same thing, “LONG LIVE LIBERTY!” This didn’t phase Elie in the slightest after seeing so much death he didn't even blink, But when there was a child, it caught his attention. They never mentioned his real name but he was the Dutch Oberkapo pupil and after the Dutch Oberkapo were caught sabotaging an electric power station and stocking arms, the poor boy was