How Does Elie Wiesel Show Dehumanization In Night

As stated by Arthur Asher Miller, an American playwright, “The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.” In 1941, World War II started and affected the lives of millions. Many Jewish people were taken from their homes and thrown into concentration camps. These camps brutally killed millions of innocent Jews and worked many to death. One survivor, Elie Wiesel, writer of the novel Night, uses literary discussion to discuss the effects of dehumanization through the camps he lived through. Elie uses literary elements to demonstrate dehumanization. For example, in the novel, Elie uses a metaphor to demonstrate to readers how the camps made other people. During the

(95). So many men were malnourished and waiting for anything that could help keep them alive. After a while, the body will naturally do anything to stay alive, thus making the men kill each other for a little piece of bread. This is such a sad fact. The fact that these men are so desperate that they will kill other men is something animals would do. This proves how when you don't treat someone as a human, they will become less of a person. Additionally, Elie uses personification to describe the realization of his friend leaving his own father. In this part of the story, the dad is looking for his son when, “A terrible thought loomed up in my mind: he wanted to get rid of his father! He had felt that his father was growing weak; he had believed that the end was near and had sought this separation in order to get rid of the burden and to free himself from an encumbrance that could lessen his own chances of survival” (87). A father and son bond is very strong, especially in times of terror. What happened in this case was that the son left his dad for his own selfish desires. Whatever benefited the son was what he did. This caused so much grief and confusion for the father, while the son did what he needed to