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How Does Elie Wiesel Present Social Injustice In Night

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In the book Night by Elie Wiesel social injustice is evidently portrayed in both Elie and his father. Elie’s father, after many restless nights in the camp, fell ill. He felt that there was no longer a reason to fight to stay alive because as far as he knew there was no future for him. It was made clear that he wouldn’t make it out of the camp alive. He realized that the pain of living was a far worse fate than the peace that came with death. Elie's father was denied the right to live, he was no longer given food as SS officers viewed the sickly as wastes of space. It never occurred to Elie or his father that being born into their religion would lead them to life of torture and pain. The barracks were where Elie’s father would be left to die. Other …show more content…

He saw himself as less than human. He was made to feel as if he had no other purpose in life than to work. He didn’t get to say no. He was born into a religion that he was not going to be able to get out of. Life no longer mattered to him. He had lost his faith, and his father was the only thing that provided him the will to live. Once his father was gone, his life no longer had value or meant anything to himself or anyone else because in the camps no one could afford to care for others, at least not as much as they had to care for themselves, “I remained in Buchenwald until April 11. I shall not describe my life during that period. It no longer mattered to me anymore” (Wiesel 113). Elie was denied basic human rights. He was no longer treated as another person but as a working machine. He was unable to mourn his father’s death because he knew that being weak in the camp would only lead to his death. The loss of his father only added to the pain he felt, it made it that much harder to have hope that one day he would leave that treacherous camp. Only, he didn’t know if he wanted that day to come, if it meant he would leave be leaving without his

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Although he slowly gave faith away, one reason would be to discourage Wiesel by injustice. For example, Violence, to kill, disadvantage, to anger, would impact the Jews with misery. In Night, the book Elie Wiesel wrote, he admits,”Whenever I dreamed of a better world, I could only imagine a universe with no bells”(69-70). Anyone can dream dearly about the true, genuine contentment in their hearts, but one must face reality when conditions get vigorous.

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He was in a hopeless situation, he was unable to fight back against the one who basically caused his father to die, because of this hopelessness and the trauma he had endured he had nothing left to react to other than continue to move on and fight to stay alive. This social change and the society he was living in at the time people became accustomed to the constant death that they felt guilty but they had to keep on moving, it was everyone for themselves. They had little to no power to fight back. He couldn't get

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Never shall [he] forget those things, even were [he] condemned to live as long as God Himself” (Wiesel 75). This quote leads me to believe that the suffering endured in the camps lead Elie to become lost with who he was. Elie and the other members of the Jewish community try to keep their faith as much as they can even though it is being tested. As shown in Night enduring suffering forces people to become much different versions of themselves.

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He begins to believe that his father has become more of a burden than a comfort of home. As Elie father grows weaker in the internment camp Elie begins to question whether he should save food for himself or share with his father, whether he should stay and help his father while they are running or leave him behind as many of the other sons did. Form the reading you can see that these questions caused Elie to face quite a lot of inter turmoil. This is first revealed to the reader through his father’s beatings. On multiple occasions Wiesel, Elie’s father, received horrible beatings of then for things that Elie had done or failed to do (for example the Elie refusing to give the Forman his gold crown) even so Elie failed to do anything to help/protect his father, this seemed to be as much as a surprise to Elie as it was to the reader, as he states “my father had been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked.

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