Examples Of Outcasts In Night By Elie Wiesel

Many people have differences in their beliefs, personality, and preferences that can lead to being treated as an outcast which can be either a good or a bad experience. However, the majority of the time being considered an outcast to others can be a punishing experience for those with differences. As in the memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel, the author talks about his experience as a Jew, that endured tremendous amount of torture during the holocaust. The Jews had endured so much pain that was caused by the Germans who saw them as outcasts simply because of their religion and based on someone’s opinion. For this reason, is why many people are considered outcast for their differences having a punishing experience with it. Words changed-highlighted

The worker watched the spectacle with great interest”. (?) When Eliezer describes this, he is illustrating how people would ridicule the Jews for their own amusement that shows the negative experience these “outsiders'' had to endure. This experience that the Jews go through also shows that being different to others can lead to severe mistreatment simply because you are seen as something that does not belong. Not only that, but when the son asks the doctor to assist his father, the doctor does the opposite, “In fact, that doctor had come only to finish off the patients.I listened to him shouting at them that they were lazy good-for-nothings who only wanted to stay in bed”. (?) Despite the hard work they had been doing in the concentration camps and the torture they had endured, they were only seen as being to blame for their unfortunate events and lazy people which explain another negative experience the Jews had to go through. They had been mistreated so much to the point that people died and in these situations. Being an outsider is so difficult because they were seen differently and treated as unequals which made their experience so

The Jews are treated terribly and are made to work in extreme conditions all because they were considered as outcasts for their religion. First, they are taken from their homes as in the story it says,”The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them,finally, our illusions''. (?) All the jews were taken from their homes and sent to work in concentration camps that treated them horribly. People who were Jews began to feel afraid and some even changed their identities to not get caught which shows the punishing experience in being judged as an outcast because of how people are fearing being a Jew. Later on in the story, as the boy is describing how he remembers the events, he mentions a guard telling them, “Do you see the chimney over there ?... And the flames do you see ? Over there, that's where they will take you. Over there will be your grave…You will be burned!”.(?) Just because they were Jews they were tormented, starved, and even killed. Every Jew was considered an outsider or outcast in Germany and the horrific experience they went through was all because of their religion. This proves that being declared an outcast by society can be a punishing experience because of the torture that the Jews had to go through from the point of view of Adolf Hitler, who viewed them as