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Night By Elie Wiesel Research Paper

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“I couldn't help thinking that there were two of us: my body and I. And I hated that body.” (Wiesel 85). The Holocaust is an extremely dehumanizing story and has a very harsh reality of how the Jews were treated. Elie and his family throughout the book go through very severe dehumanizing things and are not the same people after. There were many ways the Germans dehumanized the Jews. A few of them were beating, selecting, and starving them. Elie was affected as he eventually lost his basic humanity, felt like he wasn’t human anymore, and began losing his faith in God. The Jews faced a lot of tough experiences and had been through a lot, but the worst of them was the Germans beating the Jews. The Jews would get beat if they did anything that the Germans didn’t like or didn’t want. …show more content…

Elie is affected by the beating because it makes him feel like an animal and has lost all his emotions. In the book it also states, “While getting beaten, “[Elie] had watched it all happening without moving. [Elie] kept silent” (Wiesel 54). The Germans didn’t think anything of them and just thought of them as nothing but waste. They hung the elderly and innocent children if they did one thing wrong and did not think twice about it. The Jews also faced a thing called selection. It was where the SS officers inspected each person to determine whether they were “fit” to work. If they are not “fit” to work, the SS officers will note their identification number and they will be killed. In the novel Night it states, “There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose the

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