World War II was a dark and cruel period that normal people sadly had to go through. "Night" is an amazing novel that really explains some of the things that people went through during the Holocaust. As a young boy Elie witnessed many traumatizing things. Over the course of the novel Elie developed different conflicts and themes that go with one another; one main theme is humanity. Elie wrote this novel to show everyone the darkest period of his life.
Elie wrote about humanity in his novel meaning, that is one aspect of life that he lost from the Holocaust. Humanity means humanness and benevolence; how the Jews were treated was not helping their humanity. "Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns," (6). Treating anyone so terrible is inhumane but especially what they did to the children. Not only would they all die but they were also tortured. "Here and there, the police were lashing out with their clubs: 'Faster!' I had no strength left," (19). While everyone at a camp was being hurt they could not complain or the Nazi's would kill them.
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"The Hungarian Police made us climb into the cars, eighty persons in each one," (22). The way he expresses the things that happened to him make the reader picture it in their heads. He also develops humanity by expressing the way he feels about the current events happening. After the hanging of the youth from Warsaw he said, " the soup tasted better than ever," yet after the pipel was hanged he said," That night, the soup tasted of corpses," (65). Once Elie saw a little boy get hanged and suffer for his life he could not bear it. Every time something would happen, his humanity was slowly breaking