Examples Of Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

In Elie Wiesel’s novel Night, Wiesel writes about the experiences of Eliezer, his family, and fellow Jews, he explained how the Nazis gradually changes the way the Jews lived little by little. Dehumanization is the process of stripping a person of every quality that makes him human and changing them to fit their needs. Dehumanizing started when Eliezer and other Jews in his community are evacuated from their homes in Sighet. They were transported in cattle cars which related the Jews to no more than livestock. After the harsh transportation the Jews arrived at Auschwitz a concentration camp where Eliezer spent many months of his life. They were whipped, ran, and starved till some of the Jews could not take it. In Elie Wiesel book he explains how he found the stamina to survive these cruel conditions.

They didn’t have any value to the Nazi’s and they were considered to be only good for work. While Eliezer and his family are forced to sit in a crowded wagon, a German officer tells them “There are eighty of you in this wagon. If anyone is missing, you’ll all be shot, like dogs…” (Wiesel 18). This restrains the Jews from thinking about trying to escape. It shows that the Germans had no respect for them and they thought they weren’t capable of being a good person. When they reach Auschwitz, an SS officer tells the group “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (Wiesel 22). The SS officer treats them as if they are a herd of animals and separates them from their loved ones. Many Jews isolated themselves because of how they were treated, leading them to turn on each

In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel writes about his experience inside the concentration camps of Germany during World War II. He realizes how his humanity changes after he is free. Elie ponders about if he can be re-humanized after he passes trials, when he looks at a mirror. Wiesel uses a gloomy tone to reveal how Elie succeeds in survival through dehumanization.

In the memoir, Night , by Elie Wiesel is about Elie’s experience with the Holocaust. In the many work camps he traveled, he witnessed many cases of dehumanization. The word “Dehumanization” means a group of people assert the inferiority of another group. The humans that are inferior think that race of people shouldn’t deserve of moral consideration. When the Wiesel’s arrived at Birkenau, reception center for Auschwitz; Wiesel experienced his first case of dehumanization when he gets separated from his mother and his daughter. When he arrived at Auschwitz he gets tattooed a number; this is where the SS officers striped his birth name away. At Buna, Wiesel witnessed many followings because his fellow jews have committed crime. Throughout

In Elie Wiesel’s autobiography, “Night” there are many examples of dehumanization from start to finish. Dehumanization is stripping a person of every quality that makes them human. This includes their identity, individuality, and soul. The Night shows the process by which the Nazis reduced the Jews to little more than “things” which were a nuisance to them. The book takes place in World War 2, in the Holocaust. Eliezer and his family are very much directly affected by actions taken by the Nazis as well as all the other Jews. Throughout the whole book, the Nazis use practices such as beatings, starvation, theft of possessions, separation of families, crude murders, forced labor, and many more actions represented through the text of this book that are all examples of dehumanization. Eliezer, the narrator of the story, arrived at the concentration camp of Auschwitz when he was fifteen years old. He arrived by the transportation of cattle cars. Within the various camps, Eliezer spent ten months of abuse and dehumanization. He lost so much due to the Germans.

Because of the dehumanization that results from being imprisoned within a concentration camp, prisoners put their own survival needs over their family’s, transforming themselves into brutes in the face of atrocities and cruel treatment. However, unlike most concentration camp prisoners, Elie escapes the fate of demoralization, as he puts his father's well being above his own, even when his father hampers his own chances of survival. For example, Elie sacrifices his ration of soup, giving it to his dying father, stating, “I took one gulp. The rest was for him” (Wiesel 106). The selflessness Elie maintains, giving up a life sustaining resource to a man whose days are numbered, proves that Elie, despite all hardships, keeps his morals intact.

Dehumanization is to strip the rights and qualities of a person or people. In the Night, by Elie Wiesel uses tone, imagery and diction to explain how the Jews were punished and how cruel the Nazis were to them. They were stripped of their clothes, forced to work and overworked and stacked like cattle in a slaughter house.

Dehumanization is wrong and needs to be stopped throughout society. Even today, human cruelty happens, and nobody should be fan of it. One of the biggest examples of dehumanization is the Holocaust. The paragraphs below will further explain this terrifying reality. They will cover the book Night, the film Night and Fog, the Elie Wiesel documentary, and examples of the maslow reading chart found in the book Night.

“I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me” (Wiesel 115). Traumatized by his experiences in concentration camps during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel reflects on just how deeply the extreme torture and dehumanization affected him. This feeling of dissociation is common among the survivors of the Holocaust, but this feeling extends to the victims of other genocides. During the same time, a continent away, stood the Chinese citizens within the city of Nanking, China. There, the defenseless Chinese were brutally attacked for six long weeks in a massacre known as the Rape

The memoir “Night” is about Eliezer (aka: Elie) Wiesel’s experience during the Holocaust. He faces horrifying things that no human should ever have to endure. He survived and lived to tell his story. Dehumanization was a big part of the Holocaust because the prisoners experience was so terrible that it changed them, and others thought that corrupt acts would help them survive.

“ Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky” - Elie Wiesel. The holocaust is the biggest massacre in history to take place. It occured in Germany starting in 1933 and lasting until 1945. 1.5 million children alone died in the holocaust. But one child from the holocaust lived to tell his tale. His name is Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel, author of the nonfiction novel Night, was a real holocaust survivor. In this book, he shares his story to the world. One touchy topic shown through the holocaust is dehumanization. The idea that a greater power could take the souls of many lives is absurd. Elie Wiesel uses the novel Night to show the dehumanization the nazis brought upon

In the novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel, the theme of dehumanization is present throughout the novels. Dehumanization is the process in which Nazis instilled fear into the Jews so as to make them lose all individuality and hope. The act of dehumanization is very prevalent throughout in which most of them were acts of deindividualization.

Throughout the novel, one common theme is dehumanization of the inmates. With Elie’s town, the first act of dehumanization that they were introduced to was the ghettos they were forced into. The entire town was forced into two small areas of land, one four streets big and the other occupying only a few alleyways on the edge of town (Wiesel 11). This shows that the German soldiers didn’t care at all about the needs of human beings, and I think Elie felt at this point that the Jews were treated like a problem to be stuffed away. Multiple times during Elie’s experience, he and the other Jews were referred to as animals. While on the first train ride, a German officer says “’If anyone goes missing, you will all be shot, like dogs’”

One of Wiesel's strengths in the novella Night is to show the dehumanization. It’s a thing that the Nazis did against the people they imprisoned. They tattooed numbers on prisoners, Eliezer notes, this is of great importance. A-7713 is Elie’s number. This is here an prime example of dehumanization because it robs the individual of their humanity. The abuses that the Nazis practiced on their prisoners is yet another example of dehumanization. They did public beatings, and hangings of prisoners whilst making others walk past, as well as the selection process, these are all examples of dehumanization. When Eliezer has to run to avoid being noticed during one of the selections it’s a reminder as to how large dehumanization was during the Holocaust.

This was the last moment that Elie says his mother and sister, where they had been killed in the gas chambers shortly after. Yet, Elie was lucky enough to have spent his time there with his father. Gas chambers were a big part of the execution of the Jewish population. Other techniques that the Nazis used to injure and abuse them included whipping, hanging, attacking, fighting, and abuse from the doctors whom would practice hazardous surgeries on the prisoners for their personal research. Daily in the concentration camps, prisoners would be killed with everyone in the camp watching and scared next time it will be them. The other prisoners would be forced to watch them die, even if they are a family member, friend, or even just a roommate who they saw as a friend. After witnessing death numerous times, Elie, his father, and their fellow prisoners got used death, they had not let it affect them anymore. They saw babies burning to death, children getting hung, adults being abused, and innocent being killed. “...seven times cursed and seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as god himself. Never.” (Wiesel