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Night Dehumanization Essay

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The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a monumental novel that impacts the lives and minds of all those that read it, but there is more to Wiesel’s story than is on the pages that he wrote, which the readers will have to look deeper into the words to truly find the emotion behind them. This book recounts factual events that occurred during the horrific time of the Holocaust. Wiesel tells his readers about the tragic events of the Holocaust from his life as a fifteen-year-old. The Holocaust was filled with dehumanization that is revealed through this book which quite literally reaches into your soul and makes you feel the anger, fear, sadness, and defeat that Wiesel and all the other victims of the Holocaust felt. My personal definition of dehumanization is when you are ripped from your family, when you lose control of your life and your rights, when you are living in quarters that could be compared to unclean animal stalls heaped with piles of, excrement, and where once you are broken or unable to carry on, with you are thrown out like a crippled mule. When he was telling his story in this book, Wiesel must have had one of the hardest times in his life because …show more content…

The way he writes about these events captures his audience’s attention until the very end. Some of the examples are such as: they were given barely any rations, their possessions were taken from them as soon as they got to their destination(pg 21 & 27), they were herded like cattle into cattle cars, they had their families ripped apart due to gender(pg 27), they were forced to live in unsanitary living(if you can call it that) quarters, they were shaved clean on every part of their body like sheep(pg 33), and they were forced to do brutal and taxing jobs(pg 32-106). When Wiesel mentioned these events and treatments in this book, it quite literally reached into my soul and yanked it out in

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