Night: Journal Writing Humanity consists of qualities that make us human, the way we love, care, and have compassion for others. In this novel, I can read about how people got tortured, and treated so badly that they were completely dehumanized. As I read how the Germans treated the Jews, for example, having little to no compassion for them, torturing them, making them live under the inexplicable circumstances they did. It rose upon me many questions based on how and why did this happen. How could people, in this case Germans, believe that they are a superior race, and be above others. How could someone be so closeminded to believe that, in this case, Jews, are weaker and less than Germans. How could these soldiers treat fathers, mothers, daughters, and sons the way they did and then go home to their families and act in the norm, like they did not just kill or torture thousands of innocent Jews? Young Jews, such as Eliezer, and older ones, who had faith, who believed in God, Germans had the power to make them doubt that faith, Jews like Eliezer’s father Schlomo, or Moshe the Beadle, asked themselves why, if God really existed, why was this happening to them. …show more content…
He came upon so many experiences that it made him come from being very religious to doubting if God even existed. I talk about his faith because, to me, this is the most impacting way of losing his humanity. He starts to lose it when he first saw the hanging of the young boy, in front of all the other Jews who also questioned God’s existence. “What are you my God? I thought angrily… What does your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all cowardice, this decay, and this misery?” he quotes as he stands before that terrible