Examples Of Inhumanity In The Book Night

Inhumanity in «Night»

Throughout the history of the human kind, men established themselves as savages. They started wars, created new conflicts, and found ways to ruin each other’s lives. The Holocaust is one of the most well known crimes against society and an act of inhumanity. The novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel focuses on the acts of inhumanity and other related events that took place between 1939 and 1945. Throughout the novel, Eliezer, the main character, and his father are sent to one concentration camp to another, facing new difficulties and people everyday. From the beginning of the journey when the Jews found out about what was happening and the Hitler’s intentions, their lives had drastically changed. The Jews, victims of the

People’s unwillingness, fear of speaking up displays inhumanity from the side of ignorance and arrogance of the non-Jewish citizens in the beginning of the novel. All the Jewish families were moved to ghettos, forced to close businesses. The other members of the society had a chance to help, bring change, but instead decided to keep silent as if what was happening was reasonable. However, they were not the only ones who turned their backs on the Jewish members of the town, Jews themselves were too a part of it. For example, upon his escape from the concentration camp, Moishe the Beadle tried to warn the people of his town about the danger that was coming. “… People not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen. “ The citizens were not willing, wishing to believe him, instead called him a madman. According to their theory, Moishe wanted their pity; to the Jews it was the only logical explanation to the events that the man was describing. Soon, karma punished the Jews were punished for their inhumanity and crudeness towards the

It was when they first realized that men were evil creatures that will fight anyone and anything in order to get what they want. As they entered the camp all they saw was “…children thrown into flames....” the Jews understood, it would not be a pleasant stay. The new inmates finally saw the cruelty and inhumanity in the German actions. Families were separated, men were sent to the left and women to the right. Throughout this process the SS soldiers were verbally and physically abusing those refusing to follow the instructions. After everything settled, men were organized into blocks and were appointed to the Kapos, prisoners put in charge by the Nazi. Idek, a Kapo in Elie’s block, was an aggressive person who had a hard time controlling his emotions. On occasions, he would take his anger out on the guilty in his opinion prisoners. “ Idek was on edge, he had trouble restraining himself…he began beating him [Elie’s father] with an iron bar. “ Elizer did not do anything, and once again, the silence played a part in the inhumane action. In this scene, however, it is not the most important, but the malice of what was happening is. The harshness and brutality in his actions are unbearable. Idek, being a Jew himself, feels that there is a need to ensure his superiority in the block. By taking his anger out on the inmates, he both assures that they behave and gets his feelings back into place. The people’s inhumane