Theme Of Suffering In Night By Elie Wiesel

Human suffering is everywhere in the world but it does not concern men or women as we find out in the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel where he is controlled by the Germans to work long hours, eat a minimal amount of food and sleep on wooden beds were the rest who are not chosen go to the gas chamber. The movie “The Help” is another example of a text were people suffer by others who don’t care how they live. In “The Help” the coloured are looked upon as dirty and disgraceful people who should work as house maids and have a minimal wage. Both texts involve human suffering from the suffering inflicted by others to being treated with no respect or how they live and being watched by other people who see them suffer every day and don’t do anything to

During Elie first weeks at the prison camp he went through selections deciding whether he go to the gas chamber or sent to work, live on wooden beds and eat simple and small portions with other Jews. It’s the same as in ‘The Help’ were the coloured are controlled by the whites to work long hours on low wage. The whites are seen to not care how the coloured live or get treated as long as their children are looked after and their house is clean they are happy. The coloured are also controlled in the instance where they get kicked off the bus and have to walk the rest of the way and the whites get to stay on the bus until their actual stop. With these both texts we see the suffering both Elie and the rest of the Jews and suffer from getting selected to work long hours or sentenced to death and the Help were the coloured are treated with little wage and controlled by the

In “Night” a lot of the German soldiers would just stand around and watch them suffer like in the gas chamber were they would watch through the small windows were it could take 15 minutes for the Jews to slowly die. The German soldiers also watch the Jews live in horrible conditions were they had little food which had to be equality divided, slept on wooden beds with multi Jews and work hard labour were the Germans would just watch them suffer every day. The German soldiers more than likely had three meals a day and a comfy bed to sleep in compared to the Jews. In “Night” the whites are the people who watch the coloured woman and men suffer from getting kicked off a bus because of their colour and having to work every day for little money. The white people who hire them watch them suffer every day earning little money and having to deal with everything that goes on in the house. If one item goes missing in the house the coloured maids get the blame even if they did not do it. Showing that the coloured suffer from discrimination but it does not concern any of the white’s men or