Negative Stereotypes In Elie Wiesel's Night

As wisely stated by Junaid Raza, “We hurt people, when we give ourselves more value than others.” When people are on different levels of perspective or beliefs, they tend to hurt each other due to negative stereotyping, mistrust, non-negotiability, and reframing. All of these are projected due to the sense that their values are being threatened, or that only one can obtain superiority. Hatred is prevalent everywhere in this world and there’s no escaping it. This is shown tremendously within Elie Wiesel’s “Night” in the aspects of negative stereotyping and reframing. During WWII those who were Jewish were sent to concentration camps, to be killed or enslaved, all orders of one man, Adolf Hitler. Hitler hated Jews and added to the antisemitism

Augustin Farabundo Marti formed the Central American Socialist Party and led peasants as well as indigenous people against the government. In response to that, the government formed military death squads that killed anyone who was suspected to be supporting of the rebellion. Once the government failed to improve living standards of the country as promised, five main guerrilla groups united to form the FMLN; this is the group Granny seemed to help in the short story. After the guerillas struck the Golden Bridge, it is discussed that a lady rushes to warn Granny that the guards or death squads were searching for her; with the history of the war known they were probably going to have her killed without question, but she successfully drew them off. Neither the guerrillas nor the government wanted to negotiate and come to a middle ground, so the El Salvadorian government turned to violence for the difference of

The old pig sparks rebellion against the Mr. Jones due to their beliefs that humans are a threat as they use the animals for their own consumption and benefit. As time passes reframing is also shown in chapter 5 when Napoleon turns his back on Snowball because of their constant disagreements. After the dogs successfully chased off Snowball, Squealer states that Snowball was a traitor and in reality no better than a criminal; lying for the benefit of Napoleon. When the windmill is approved, in private Squealer once more chimes in on the redirecting, sharing to the other animals that the windmill was Napoleon's idea all along, and Snowball stole it. Supposedly Napoleon only seemed to oppose the idea to get rid of Snowball; which was in fact