Inhumanity In Night By Elie Wiesel

Sometimes the strongest connections in life are formed during the worst circumstances. This is exactly what happened during the Holocaust between Elie Wiesel and his Father. In Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel recounts the appalling events him and his father were subject to at the hands of the Nazis. Amidst the atrocities happening around them Wiesel develops a bond with his father he never could have achieved without living through one of the lowest points in the world's history. Although Elie Wiesel's relationship with his father is challenged numerous times due to the atrocious events they were succumbed too, in the end this bond is what maintains Wiesel's will to live.

The one person in Elie’s life that means everything to him is his father. During his time in the concentration camps, Elie’s bond with his father

“Why don’t they shoot us all right away?” (Wiesel 75) This quote shows a man both becoming a brute and retaining humanity. The inhuman part is simply not wanting to live any more and putting down life for the sake of comfort of death. However, the speaker stays human in seeing how terrible these circumstances are and rejecting by asking for death.

Elie Wiesel experienced many personal and social conversions. One theme that relates to everyone throughout the novel Night, is freedom v.s confinement. In the beginning of this nonfiction story, Elie and his family are arranged in a ghetto in their town. The author introduces this by saying, “Two ghettos were set up in Sighet. A large one, in the center of the town, occupied four streets, and another smaller one extended over several small side streets in the outlying district. The street where we lived, Serpent Street, was inside the first ghetto.” The idea of confinement is now being constructed. Within the ghetto, they are not aware, but this was the last time they would see their homes or a place that gives them full contentment/ satisfaction.

When looking through the history of humanity, an alarming pattern begins to emerge: the pattern of oppression. Since the beginning of civilization, humans have constantly sought to oppress one-another and establish superiority over another group of people. In the book Nights, Elie Wiesel details his petrifying experience of oppression in Nazi Concentration camps, perpetrated by the Nazi Regime and its collaborators. What happened to Wiesel and the rest of Europe’s Jews was a hate crime like the world had never seen before. But where exactly could so much “evil” come from?

Strong bonds built upon trust and dependability can last a lifetime, especially through strenuous moments when the integrity of a bond is the only thing that can be counted on to get through those situations. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he writes about his life spent in the concentration camps, while explaining the experiences and struggles that he went through. Although, not everything during that period was completely unbearable for Wiesel. At the time when Wiesel first arrived at the camps, the fear instilled in Wiesel and the loneliness he would have felt forced him to form a stronger attachment to his father. That dependence towards his father gave Wiesel a reason to keep on living. In turn, his

In a Concentration Camp survival was next to impossible. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie is a survivor of the holocaust who doesn’t have much of a relationship with his father. He has always felt that he was never important to his father and that his father cared more about the community than his own family. When Eliezer and his father are forced to count on each other, it’s a slow process for them to finally have a father-son relationship. Without each other they wouldn’t have survived for as long as they did and Eliezer would have lost all hope. A major theme in this story is how Eliezer and his father come together and build a relationship amidst their circumstances.

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.

The quote “Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn” is very relevant in the Holocaust texts Night by Elie Wiesel and The Last Days directed by James Moll because it really sums up the Holocaust. Both these texts give insight to what happened inside the camps and how the survivors were changed forever. These texts both show that in times of extreme inhumanity, one can lose his faith, which leads to a loss of innocence.

Most people believe that family helps build you up and make you stronger, even through tragic events; this isn’t always true. In Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, he explains the hardships he and his father, Shlomo, experienced while in concentration camps. In the book, Elie and his dad went through many tough situations together: starvation, beatings, and health issues. As more and more horrific events occurred, Eliezer's relationship with his father began to fade. As Shlomo grew weaker physically, Eliezer grew weaker emotionally; the intense trauma numbed his heart. Because of these many difficulties, Eliezer was shaped into an independent young man who no longer relied on his family but on his own strength for survival.

Adam Driver once stated, “it’s hard to kill a father-son bond.” Night is about a young kid named Elie Wiesel. Elie is a jew who got sent to the camps. Him and his father got separated from his mom and and 3 sisters. When reading Night, it is evident that the father and son is a very powerful theme.

Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” shows the life of a father and son going through the concentration camp of World War II. Their life long journey begins from when they are taken from their home in Sighet, they experience harsh and inhuman conditions in the camps. These conditions cause Elie and his father’s relationship to change. During their time there, Elie and his father experience a reversal in roles.

The son, who had been with his father through everything, abandoned Rabbi Eliahu for the mere chance he could come off better later. This further fits the idea that under harsh conditions, dehumanization can lead to people betraying their own family. Another father -son relationship that falls apart occurs on the train ride to Buchenwald. After a German laborer had thrown a piece of bread into the train car full of staving people, the people on the train ruthlessly fought others for the bread. Among those was a father, who hid some bread to share with his son, who “threw itself over him [the father] … the old man was crying: Meir, my little Meir! Don’t you recognize me … You’re killing your own father” (p.101). The whole scene of people behave like animals to each other and even family members shows how that no one is even remotely like they were before the holocaust. For a single piece of bread, human beings are killing and fighting each other without even thinking about it. This is a glance at to how dehumanized those people were and how they stopped remotely caring about other living people. As Elie watches everything unfold throughout the book, he struggles to keep his past self.

Elie was a victim of dehumanization during the holocaust which caused him to feel no pain or sadness in these horrible times. Through the story, Elie has tried not to become dehumanized by the Nazis, but sadly he still does. At some points he wants to just get rid of his father, and gets angry at him for no reason. One day Ellie was working and his dad got in a kapos way. The man began to beat Elie's father but Ellie didn't care,he thought, “What is more, any anger I felt at that moment was directed, not against the kapo, but against my father”(Weisel 52). Elie thought that his father was smart enough to know not to get in the way of the kapo, sadly though Elie felt no grief for his poor father only anger. In another instance Elie was looking for his father hoping he was still alive, but he also didn't want to find him. He said, “Don't let me find him! If only I could get rid of his dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my own survival, and only worry about my self”(Weisel 101). Elie, like most of the other

The Inhumanity Among Men Events that were bestowed upon millions of Jews during the Holocaust were acts of pure barbarity. The memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel is a primary source that showed multiple examples and supporting details regarding the theme of inhumanity to man. The examples that are quoted and explained from this memoir are real things that happened. Inhumanity among fellow humans is not some kind of fantasy.