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.

The memoir Night written by Elie Wiesel's, uncovers the monstrous acts inflicted upon the Jews, by the Nazi party. Throughout The years, Jews were acquainted or witnessed death and suffering through every perspective. Some were able to survive while others met a slow painful death. In the precise memoir Night, The Nazi soldiers were unfortunately successful in exterminating Jews in large number due to their prominent tactic of death humanization. Dehumanization is by far, the worst technique of executing a human being. I gaped and cringed when analyzing the complications young Eliezer and his father had to endure and sustain. The process of dehumanization is one that unravels a mind and breaks a human being down to a pulp physically,

First Elie started to lose his faith. He wanted to believe that his mom and sister were kept safe but he was losing his faith. “We pretended for what if one of us still did believe” (Wiesel 46). He started losing his faith after him and his mom and sister got separated which has a big effect on his identity. He stayed silent in hard times. Elie was abused for no reason but he chose not to say anything about it. “As I bit my lips in order not to howl in pain” (Wiesel 53). Instead of standing up for himself, he lost his will to speak. One of the major points when he lost his identity, was when he lost his name. Elie’s identity was taken from him when they took away his name and called him by a number instead. “I became A-1137. From then one I had no other name” (Wiesel 42). When he lost his name he was no longer the same person he was before the holocaust. Elie felt like he needed to speak for all the Jews the lost their identity that couldn’t speak for

Elie Wiesel’s book Night, tells what he went through and what was going on in the concentration camps. He was one of the few that made it out of the camps, and he suffered through all of the bad doings of Hitler and his men. This book gives many examples that show how Elie and the other Jews were dehumanized by being treated as something less than a human.

During the Holocaust, German Nazis slaughtered Jewish people and held them prisoner as well. While they were held captive, the Jewish people were often dehumanized. Dehumanization is defined as the process of depriving a person or group of human qualities. Throughout the book Night by Elie Wiesel, there is many examples of dehumanization, like taking away personal identities, starvation, and being forced to watch others be murdered that helped Adolf Hitler achieve his ends.

Dehumanization is the torture that the Jews receive and the pity they do not. It is found everywhere in the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, but also in the whole thinking process and execution of the Holocaust. The population of Jews is abruptly being reduced because of some unnecessary hatred towards them. Elie is surrounded by death, hunger, and suffering, and all he comes to know is pain. To demean a whole race and create another period of slavery leaves an aftertaste of abhorrence and loathing that Jewish people still feel today, but it also leaves a trail of shame for all to endure. Dehumanization leads many people too their downfall, loss of faith, and realizing theirs and others true human nature.

Dehumanization is the process by which the Nazis gradually reduced the Jews to little more than "things" which were a nuisance to them. Altering the jews physical appearances, violently removing the jews from their homes and families, and treating them like vermin are the specific examples of events which dehumanized Eliezer, or his fellow Jews. These events changed Elie’s attitude, outlook, and identity. First, the Nazis alternate the Jews physical appearance. When they walked into concentration camp the had there hair shaved off, gold-capped-tooth taken out, and tattoo for identity.

According to webster's dictionary, dehumanization is treating someone as though he or9 she is not a human being. In"Night"written by Elie Wiesel, the Germans treated the jews like animals, and over time they started acting like it. While many fall victim to the fate of becoming a brute, Elie retains his civility. No matter how viciously they treated Elie, he never loses his love for his father. For example, Elie had a choice to stay in the infirmary and become liberated, or go with his father on the march to Buchenwald and risk death.

In the memoir Night, the author Elie Wiesel explains the dehumanization of the fellow jews and his family. Wiesel describes how his friends, family, and other fellow Jews changed from the civilized humans to gradually animal like behavior but with more demoralized. Dehumanization process starts with Jewish communities which includes the Wiesels are all evacuated to ghettos or concentration camps. Family members would start to split up and gradually, Jews would fight against each other every time they move from one camp to another, struggling to survive the small cramped space and the weather, especially in the winter time.

In the book “Night” by Eliezer Wiesel, it shows that Dehumanization was shown to weaken the jews and help them determine whether or not they would ever be normal again.

There is no such loss than that of humanity. One of the most common and popular stages of genocide is dehumanization. Dehumanization is when one group denies the humanity of another group, and makes the victim group seem subhuman. In this stage of genocide, there’s hate propaganda vilifying the victim group, members of the victim group are described as animals, vermin, and diseases, it invokes superiority of one group and inferiority of the other, and it justifies murder by calling it “ethnic cleansing”, or “purification”. During World War II, the Nazis targeted the Jew’s humanity and slowly caused the Jews to go against what they believed in, which led to loss of humanity.

Lastly on the topic of dehumanization, Elie Wiesel himself was whipped twenty-five times (pg 57-58). No matter what they did they were going to get punished and when the Nazis punished you it was harsh and hurt. Elie Wiesel saw an example of harsh punishment again but it wasn’t for himself, it was on a child. The Nazis forced all of the prisoners to watch as they hung a child in the gallows. All of the Jewish people were dehumanized by the Nazis in some of the worst possible ways, because to the Nazis the Jewish people weren’t anything but a “thing” that they could

In the book Night, the author, Elie Wiesel, writes about his memories of the Holocaust. The theme dehumanization is expressed throughout the book by Wiesel’s accounts of the concentration camp. Early in the book, just after his arrival at the concentration camp, Wiesel writes, “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Wiesel, 42). Wiesel explains that as soon as they gave him that number he was no longer a person but a number. From that moment on in the concentration camp, Wiesel experienced many instances of dehumanization. While being transported from Auschwitz in cargo containers, they stopped at a train station. There were people surrounding the train watching the horrors of the spectacle, “Soon, pieces of bread were falling

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel dehumanization from the Nazis was huge. Throughout the book, the Nazis made the Jews, and other prisoners feel unworthy, and helpless. First, Elie and his family had to live in a ghetto. A ghetto is a slum section of a city that is made for only the Jews. After that, Elie and his family were forced to leave each other. Elie, and his father were sent one way while his mom, and two sisters were sent the other way. “ From this moment on, you are under authority of the German army.” (Wiesel 23). This is an example of dehumanization, because the German army were taking the Jews, and controlling them. Saying this, the Jews were not allowed to live a regular life, because of their religion. They were forced to do different jobs, and if the did not they could have been killed or injured. Also, they made the Jews suffer in different ways such as, gas chambers. Their regular lives were just taken away from them, and they did not have a say about it.

As you can see this is a story of much intolerance and hatred put against the jewish people. Elie starts this story as an innocent child who remains hopefull in the unkowns of the situation that he is put in. Later on we see him slowly lose both his family and his hope in the story. This makes the story a very accurate representation of the times of when Nazi germany was at its height from how the Jewish people felt during their imprisonment to how the officers would treat