Inhumanity In Night By Elie Wiesel

Alan Paton once stated, “There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.” In the book Night by Elie Wiesel there is so much inhumanity. Throughout reading this novel I thought to myself, how could a human do something so horrific to another human. In the novel Tuesday’s with Morrie by Mitch Albom there is inhumanity, but it is a different kind. Throughout these two novels, there is so much inhumanity, but both Morrie and Elie keep pushing they keep fighting. Unlike Morrie, Elie’s situation was harsh, and lonely. Morrie’s journey was rough, happy and sane. From Morrie having ALS, nice beds and lots of food. Elie had nothing, he had one set of clothes,

Morrie had a killing disease that killed his body but not his brain. He was dying and the outside world keep going. “My old professor, meanwhile, was stunned by the normalcy of the day around him. Shouldn’t the world stop? Don’t they know what has happened to me? But the world did not stop, it took no notice at all…” (Albom 8). This is what happened in Night, Elie and the other Jews were being burned and killed by gas chambers, they were being starved to death and the outside world did nothing to stop it. The outside world thought they were good camps, fun, exciting places but really they were horrifying camps. Elie and his father had to work, they had to go on with life, they had to push and push to stay alive. They had to see one another be beaten and see friends dying of starvation and other

Look at the flames! Flames everywhere…” (Wiesel 26). Elie had to see and smell humans being killed, he had to watch his father dying but keep pushing. He had to feel himself dying but he never gave up. Morrie, he loved dying, after he knew he had ALS he lived his life3 to the fullest he still went on he never gave up. Elie never gave up either, Elie pushed and fought his way through the Holocaust, he survived. “Oh yes. You atrip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much different.” (Albom 83) Morrie was stripped of his body, his brain was the only thing he had left. Unlike Morrie, Elie was stripped of everything he believed in, even his name. They were both stripped of everything but everything was different. Elie was stripped of who he was, of his clothes, of his home, of his dignity. Where Morrie was stripped of his body, his ability to move, to walk. They were both stripped of the things we take for