Altruism In Night By Eliezer Wiesel

After 3 weeks at Auschwitz, they get deported to Buna, which is a turning point for the relationship between Elie and Chlomo. The camps influence Elie and give him a crooked mind focused on staying alive and nothing else. This leads to him disregarding his father. This twisted way of thinking, due to the camps, is making Elie cheer during bomb raids at Buna. He states his thoughts “But we were no longer afraid of death, at any rate, not of that death” (57). This shows that he is willing to die to see the camps destroyed. The most horrifying event that demonstrates his twisted mind is when Eliezer pays no heed to his father while he was being repeatedly beat with an iron bar. Eliezer, rather than acting indifferent and showing nothing, actually feels angry with his father. “I was angry at him for not knowing how to avoid Idek’s outbreak” (52). The new lifestyle of the camps affected Elie and his relationship with his father for the worse.

In Elie Wiesel’s Night, imagery is employed to show the dehumanization of the Jewish people by the Nazis as the Jews develop the “survival of the fittest” mentality, and as Eliezer looses the ability to express emotions. Wiesel uses imagery of the Jews’ “survival of the fittest” mentality to show the dehumanization of the Jews who are forced to endure treacherous conditions in the concentration camps. The enslaved Jews experience the worst forms of inhumane treatment. Pushed beyond their ability to deal with the oppressing starvation, cold, disease, exhaustion, and cruelty, the Jews lose their sanity and morality. Thus, Wiesel refers to the Jews as, “wild beasts of prey with animal hatred

This quote represents Eliezer and his father’s first impression of the concentration camp. They immediately see flames everywhere and smell burning flesh coming from the air. They are beginning to realize what they are about to experience, but don’t realize the extent in which the death will come in. A prisoner then tells Eliezer and his father that they are going to be burned while Eliezer doesn't believe it. Eliezer believes that humanity wouldn't tolerate burning someone as young as he is. In addition, the other prisoners don’t see any present humanity. Eliezer makes it known that he does not agree to the possibility of being burned on the grounds that humanity wouldn't allow it.

More than once Eliezer experiences the rupture of the bond a family shares between both the

The concentration camps were beginning to remove all emotion from the people. They stopped feeling anything for others, and began only thinking of themselves. For example, when an iron bar beats Eliezers father, Eliezer feels no pity or compassion. He is madder at his father for not being

In Night, altruism is what separates man from beast. Humans as a species differ from the majority of the animal kingdom in their willingness to sacrifice their own well-being for the benefit of others. To be human is to be compassionate and caring for your fellow man. In Night, Elie Wiesel shows that humanity is [usurpable]. Subjected to the inhuman conditions of the Nazi concentration camps, his sense of altruism and compassion essentially disappear, leaving only animalistic self-interest and the instinct to survive.

Although Eliezer survived the bloodcurdling Holocaust, countless others succumbed to the Nazi’s inhumanity. The Nazi’s progressively reduced the Jewish people to being little more than “things” which were a nuisance to them. Throughout Night, dehumanization consistently took place, as the Nazis oppressed the Jewish citizens. The Germans dehumanized Eliezer, his father, and other fellow Jews for the duration of the memoir Night, which had a lasting effect on Eliezer’s identity, attitude and outlook. Wiesel displays the Nazi’s vicious actions to accentuate the way by which they dehumanize the Jewish population. The Nazis had an abundance of practices to dehumanize the Jews including beatings, starvation, separation of families, crude murders, forced labor, among other horrific actions.

“Eliezer experiments with the possibility of becoming an adult while his father gradually slips away, all the while giving his son what space he can to let him try out a new role” (Sanderson). “Eliezer's march toward a pseudo-adulthood continues, while his father seems to be regressing. (Sanderson). Elie’s father starts to get sick and is becoming an annoyance for Elie. When Chlomo sinks into a snow bank during a forced march to the next death camp, too sick to move, Eliezer begs his father to stand up and continue moving” (Sanderson). Elie also felt no remorse for his father as he was being beaten by a S.S guard. “At first my father simply doubled the blows…I felt angry at that moment… Why couldn’t he avoid Idek’s wrath?” (Wiesel 54). Even when his father was being beaten for not marching right he still became annoyed with is dad. He also gave up his soup with a heavy heart. “I gave him what’s left of my soup.” I was aware that I did it groggily” (Wiesel

officers, Eliezer and his father are both set up as the average prisoner. Now thought of as the age of 18, eliezer starts his new complicated life living in the shadow of oppression and lies. It’s at this concentration camp. Birkenau, that Eliezer has his first doubts in the “God Almighty”. As soon as the crematorium came into vision, Eliezer’s faith was cut off its dangling thread. Connecting to his primordial beast for the first time, Eliezer doesn’t even flinch as his father is beat over a simple question. After what felt like the worst it could get, Eliezer heads to a new concentration camp- Buna. His gold crown quickly becomes the interest of the week for both concentration camp workers and prisoners. Unfortunately, Franek the foreman wins the crown from Elier by the far too effective method of torture. Eventually the time of Rosh Hashanah comes, and Eliezer finally makes the conclusion that man is stronger than God. To some, this may not seem like a big deal, but when someone goes from devoting their entire life to God and then dismisses him as nothing, it is evident that something has drastically

As a child growing up in Sighet, Eliezer and his family looks much like an ordinary and close knit family today. That is until they were “taken away” where all control over life is striped away and as a result has his destiny chose by chance (Wiesel 22). During his time in Auschwitz, he has no choice of what he does. His only choice is to fight to survive. Eliezer simply does what he is told, when he is told, so he is not punished.

Elie’s thoughts and actions reflect his reliance on his father in the camp. When he is going through selection for a komodo, he begs, “I want to stay with my father” page 48.

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.

Inhumanity can be defined as, the quality or state of being cruel or barbados. The Holocaust is an example of large scale prejudice and discrimination towards one ethnicity of people. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the sheer scale of absolute disrespect and disregard for human life is narrated by Eliezer, who encounters endless hellish behavior against him and his family. At the age of twelve, Eliezer is separated from his mother and three sisters at the onset of a concentration camp.

Eliezer, a boy, loyal to his father, his ONLY reason to keep living. He always thought to himself “Must stay with father

At Aushwitz, he and his father are separated from his mother and sisters, whom they never see again. They are then stripped, shaved, and disinfected while their captors treat them with almost unimaginable cruelty. Eventually, they are marched to a work camp, Buna, where Eliezer is put to work in an electrical-fittings factory. Under slave-labof conditions, severely malnourished and decimated by the frequent