Altruism In Night By Elie Wiesel

In the novel “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor suggests that when humans are faced with protecting their own mortality, they abandon their morals and values. This can be seen in both the Jewish and German people. The German’s are inhumanely cruel to protect their own jobs and safely by obeying government commands. The Jewish captives lost their morals as they fight to survive the concentration camps. Elie Wiesel encountered many obstacles that made many of his ideals changed drastically for Wiesel which was his loss in humanity throughout the book he explains the many ways he does not see people as people anymore. He also explains how all of his natural human rights were no more during the time in the Holocaust. He had to find a sense of self because he could have easily fallen apart. He could not have done anything different, he knew it was going to end poorly. Silence is a very important and prominent theme in this book as silence represents many key symbols such as. God’s silence: Eliezar questions God’s faith many times throughout this book and wonders how he could just sit there and be silent while people are mass murdering people.

At midnight on the third day of their deportation, the group looks at flames rising above huge ovens and gags at the stench of burning flesh. Guards wielding billy clubs force Elie's group through a selection of those fit to work and those who face a grim and improbable future. Elie and his father lie about their ages and depart with other hardy men to Auschwitz. Elie's mother and three sisters disappear into Birkenau, the death camp. After viewing infants being tossed in a burning pit, Elie is now against God, who remains silent. Elie and his father manage through all the pain and horrific sights and fight through it all. In the novel “Night” Elie Wiesel shows dehumanization in many occurrences throughout the book. Pg 13 “ The gestapo had threatened to shoot him if he talked.” Pg 36 “ He was weeping bitterly. I thought he was crying with joy at still being alive.” Pg. 53 “ Beating me in the chest, on my head, throwing me to the ground and picking me up again, crushing me with ever more

In the text Night, written by Elie Wiesel, it is a horrific story about how the Nazi’s invaded Wiesel’s hometown of Sighet, Hungry and where taken under German control and sent to many concentration camps. During his time at the concentration camps, Elie and fallow Jews were in harsh and unforgettable conditions and treated severe from the Germans that no one could imagine. There is plenty of evidence which supports that even through many people turned and began to do dreadful things to one another; there were the very few people who stayed calm and gentle within all of the commotion.

Humanity is the way people treat other people. Throughout history there has always been someone or some group who has always been supreme over others. With this supremacy, there could be good or bad. I believe humans need to clear their minds of discrimination and learn to establish peace which will give humanity a purpose to stand for. During WWII there was a supreme power who established the largest massacre in man-kind.

Indifference is the lack of concern or acknowledgment of an event or a person. During the Holocaust, indifference was expressed by the world toward the injustice treatment of the Jewish community. Many people, including the Germans, failed to help the Jews. Much of the Jewish population was exterminated as a result of this indifference. The Jews were also responsible for their downfall because they didn’t choose to act as a community.

Within Wiesel’s reflection of his life during World War II, it is evident that Night reveals much that is wrong with human nature, particularly the cruelty represented by the Nazis. During the novel, Elie and every other Jew suffer extreme circumstances, such as, having to leave their loved ones behind or being threatened to do

The Holocaust was a horrific time period when over six million Jewish people were systematically exterminated by the Nazi government. Throughout this period, the Jews were treated particularly inhumane because the Nazi viewed their ethnicities as a disease to humanity. Dehumanization is a featured theme in Elie Wiesel’s novel about the Holocaust since he demonstrated numerous examples of the severe conditions endured by the Jewish people. The nonfiction story Night by Elie Wiesel focuses on inhumanity and reveals human beings are capable of committing great atrocities and behaving cruelly, when such actions are condoned by society, peer pressure, and ethical beliefs. Elie Wiesel uses literary devices to produce a consistent theme of inhumanity.

Compassion is shown in Night by Elie Wiesel in a way that helps him get through all the disturbing and distressing situations he is put in. When Elie first gets to Birkenau, he is scarred by what he sees around him. Elie initially does not believe that compassion can exist during these times. But a stranger, who is a fellow inmate, gives him invaluable advice: “No. You’re eighteen.’ ‘But I’m not,’ I said. ‘I’m fifteen.’ ‘Fool. Listen to what I say,” (Wiesel 30). This inmate shows concern towards Elie and his father even though there was nothing expected in return for his words. Compassion was unusual during this time amongst people because everyone just wanted to be able to take care of themselves and their families. An inmate showing compassion had a positive effect on Elie, which resulted in him being spared from going directly to the crematorium. Another example of compassion that Elie faces through his journey is when he encounters the French girl who gives him advice by telling him to

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”, said Elie Wiesel the author of night. Elie Wiesel is a holocaust survivor, he went through 5 different concentration camps. He was dehumanized, malnourished, and abused. He lost all his possessions, his family, and his humanity. In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, the German Army dehumanizes Elie Wiesel and the jewish prisoners by depriving them of family, food, and self esteem.

Elie Wiesel’s Night is about what the Holocaust did, not just to the Jews, but, by extension, to humanity. The disturbing disregard for human beings, or the human body itself, still to this day, exacerbates fear in the hearts of men and women. The animalistic acts by the Nazis has scarred mankind eternally with abhorrence and discrimination.

Human nature are the distinguishing characteristics of the way people feel, act, and think. All of these things are separate from any outside influences. Unfortunately one of the most popular human emotions evil, is shown many times throughout the memoir Night. Elie Wiesel 's Night examines human life in a variety of sick and evil circumstances.These extreme conditions show how, when pushed too far, humans are capable of cruelty.Woman began murdering their own parents to survive, people starved to death, and worked to the bone. The famous Auschwitz saying “Work sets you free” is a faithless promise made to the prisoners. After experiencing

Morality in Horrible Situations Morality changed drastically in Night, people were trafficking children, killing each other for money that they would never be able to use in the camps, people would throw their family into the crematories, and some Jews even worked with the Germans who were killing them. Although these things were making the Jews lose all hope and most morale character was ignored prisoners still had a miniscule bit of morality. In Night, multiple examples emphasize that morality was reduced exponentially, but it was never completely extinguished, as shown with the hangings, the rabbi’s son, and the murder for the bread. In Night, there were two hangings although Elie states that there were many others.

Sacrifice can come in many different ways, and for many different desires. In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, the book gives the readers the experience of the time during World War Two, when the Holocaust was occurring. Never seen his mother and sisters again, he goes on this strenuous and relentless journey in Auschwitz, along with his father, where they both endure through the true harsh trial of the holocaust. During this grim time, people sacrifice themselves for those they love because sacrifice express love as its strongest, shows loyalty to others, and speaking out for others is shown as a sign of kindness.

Cruelty surrounds the world constantly, and is used frequently in works of literature to reveal certain things about the theme. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, acts of cruelty are used to express the theme and enhance its message. One of the largest themes revealed by these acts is “man’s inhumanity to man,” which includes mistreatment of Jews by the Nazis, the common people, and other Jews. Watching the large amounts of violence, abuse, and discrimination that occur in this memoir show us the horrors of the Holocaust and how it transformed the men and women who it experienced it, as well as those who caused it.

In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel is a young boy who struggles to survive after being forced to live in the brutal concentration camp of Auschwitz. In Auschwitz, death and suffering is rampant, but due to compassionate words and actions from others, Elie is able to withstand these severe living conditions and overcome the risk of death in the unforgiving Auschwitz. As shown through the actions and words of characters in Night, compassion, the sympathetic pity for the suffering or misfortune of others is critical to the human experience because it enables humans to empathize with each other, empathizing which allows us to feel the need to assist others which can often be vital for survival.