Social Inequality In Elie Wiesel's Night

When one is raised in the United States they can only get a slight taste of the inequality happening in the world. In the United States, for decades, there have been many equal rights movements going on for decades. They almost always end in the group getting improvements. The reason why they only get a small taste is because the degree of social inequality is not as great as in other nations. One can gather a greater understanding of social injustice by reading literature from the Holocaust, Stalin's work camps, and middle eastern cultures.
Many times in society there are people treated different based on their religion or their ethnic background. One very good example of this was in the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel.
For starters, the concentration

Each person has their own individual opinions and think their own way, so no one should discriminate them. But this is exactly what the Soviets did. They had work camps similar to the concentration camps that of Nazi’s, but the people that were put in there were for sharing their own opinions. These camps were placed in Siberia, Russia. As you know, Siberia is a freezing cold place. In the book “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” Ivan was a Soviet soldier in world war two and got captured by the Germans. Once Ivan was returned he was sentenced to about eight years in a gulag (Solzhenitsyn). The Soviets say that if you are captured in war by the enemy then you need to kill yourself. This is a crazy thing for them to say, because you can’t expect them to do that to themselves. So if they return from being a prisoner of war then they were made to go to prison or worse. The author, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, was sentenced to the gulag because he wrote anti-Soviet pieces of literature. Being anti-soviet meant that you were against Joseph Stalin’s views. A day in the camp as he explains it is kinda boring. They start off by building a wall with bricks and mortar. Next they go back and put away the tools and go line up outside of the camps to be counted. If they are not all there or the leaders count wrong then they have to wait out there (Solzhenitsyn). Sometimes they had to sit out there for really long times and some of

One can see men and women treated differently in this country, and even Pinnacle High School. First off, the Taliban were extremely unjust to women during their rule. The Taliban set rules for women. Women must always wear a burqa, stay in their own house unless accompanied by a male relative, not speak unless spoken to, and must not be educated (Hosseini). The Taliban thought that the superior gender was men, while this wasn’t true at any time they still thought it was. Their way of getting women to be suppressed was to keep them from being educated and having their own thoughts/opinions. Another problem in the book, was that of women not having a chance to choose who they wanted to marry. As an example, Mariam one day woke up and was told she had a suitor by the name of Rasheed and that she would be marrying him the next day and moving to Kabul, with no choice (Hosseini). She had no choice to whom she wanted to marry, neither did a lot of women during this time. Later on when mariam was in prison, the women would tell mariam about how horrible their husbands were and that is because they weren’t able to love them because they didn’t choose this life. One last difference in this book was that the Taliban treated the men a lot better than the women when it came to hospitals. All but one hospital was converted into men’s only. In the book Laila goes to a