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Ivy Huang
Hanson
Hon. English 10, 4
1 March 2018 Night Essay Political leader Nelson Mandela once said, “To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” Night is about a Jewish boy’s experience in the Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. The inmates in the novel experience a series of deportation, from Sighet to a ghetto, then to various concentration camps such as Birkenau, Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald. As the inmates’ rights and freedom are stripped away, the novel reveals the darkness of humanity and the changes on Wiesel’s life during the Holocaust. In the
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For instance, the inhumane blows given by the Gypsy inmate shocks Wiesel so much that he could not even comprehend what happened. Wiesel’s father “[has] just been struck, in front of [Wiesel]” (39), yet Wiesel did “not even blink” (39). Inmates are turning against their own people as they are brainwashed to do as the Nazis orders. The act of unreasonable blows and strikes show how the inmates are stripped of not only their voice to protest, but also their right to defend themselves against absolute cruelty. Another example is the author’s shift in religious faith and his relationship with God. Wiesel’s faith in God diminishes after the night the pipel is hanged as he believes that God is also “hanging here from this gallows” (65). He believes that God is no longer in existence because God did not appear in time of crisis. Faith no longer exists in Wiesel because the Nazis have stepped over the lines to hang the child. Furthermore, family members turn against each other for crusts of bread because their bodies are denied sustenance to survive. Wiesel witnesses a father in the wagon dragging himself towards a crumb of bread as a “shadow [throws] itself over him” (101). Battling for food, the father collapses due to his son’s blows. These inmates no longer have compassion to their own family due to inhumane treatments. These treatments and conditions experienced by Wiesel and the inmates leaves them as nothing but callous