“Shut up you moron, or I'll tear you to pieces! You should have hung ourselves rather than come here. Didn't you know what was in store for you here at Auschwitz? You didn't know that? In 1944?” In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, a very raw and brutal story from the point of view of a Holocaust survivor. This novel shows the brutality and cruelty the Jews had to endure to a whole different level. Elie Wiesel was there and experienced these concentration camps. He wrote an amazingly sad, detailed novel that shows the terrible, inhumane ways the Jews were treated by German soldiers. When you're faced with such brutality and cruelty daily, I would like to say some humans wouldn't, but I think anyone would become cruel when you experience such brutality to …show more content…
They had to watch their people die daily and wonder when it was their turn. The Jews had to go through so much to have even a little chance of survival. No matter if you were a man, a child, a baby, a woman, as long as you were a Jew, you were dehumanized or killed. “The two men are no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out, swollen, and bluish. But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing. And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writing before our eyes. And we were forced to look at him from close range. He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet extinguished.” I would love to say some people could overcome this cruelty without becoming cruel themselves, but I think all of humanity has a breaking point. Elie gave a very detailed point of view from a Jew. He gave me a sense of better understanding of the concentration camps and what the Jews actually endured. Their bodies were starved of the proper nutrients and overworked to save their lives. They were so starved and worked, their bodies would break down and give up. “Listen to me,