How Does Elie Wiesel Present Social Injustice In Night

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

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