Inhumane Cruelty In Elie Wiesel's Night

The Holocaust, or a jewish sacrificial offering that is burned on an alter, largely refers to the massacre and slaughter of over 6 million european jews from 1933 to 1945. One of the largest genocides took place less than 100 years ago. A recently fresh event on the historical timeline, and yet there would be little known on exactly went on inside the camps without the testimonies of survivors. Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, produced the book “Night” as a way to cope with his time in the labor camps and to shed light on the reality of the inhumanity that engulfed numerous concentration camps across europe. After ten years of silence, the book was written by Wiesel to express his personal experiences inside the labor camps, as well as his testimony to horrifying and inhumane actions inflicted upon his beloved family and bunk mates. In “Night”, Elie Wiesel explores the evils in humanity by sharing his personal experiences and personal witness of inhumanity, and shares his own moral values of man.

The Holocaust claimed millions of lives , and the survivors witnessed an event incomprehensible to the remainder of humanity. Elie Wiesel, a burdened survivor of the Genocide, describes his own experiences in his autobiographical memoir Night. Throughout the years in the concentration camps, Wiesel and the other Jews witness countless events of Nazis intentionally dehumanizing the Jews. After hearing these brutal remarks for years, Wiesel begins to internalize these thoughts. His internalization is reflected in his writing as he often compares himself and the others to animals. He compares the Jew’s physical traits, but also the way in which they act. Elie Wiesel animalizes the Jews while personifying darkness to further dehumanize the Jews and show how the Nazi’s mental warfare continues to affect him.

Survivors of the holocaust will always be affected by the gruesome actions that were done to them. They will often express their feelings through writing, art, and many other ways informing people of the horrible events they went through. As a holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel shares his story in his memoir Night. It takes the readers through his time in the comcenration camps and the brutal reality of what was being done to him and others. Throughout the memoir his writing reflects the experiences that were done to him through his change in diction, syntax, tone, and physical and emotional changes during chapters 1-5 and 6-9.

While Elie and his father are marching by a ditch filled with fire, “A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes… children thrown into the flames” (32). This quote shows how this experience affected Elie and others in their first few hours at the camps. Elie includes this quote to show readers the horror he experienced of small children being thrown into the flames. This connects to readers emotions because children are involved. He uses this story to show readers that even though they were innocent children the Nazis still threw them into the mass grave of flames. These children had no way to fight back and many of them had no idea what was going on. The inhumanity of the Nazis is displayed during these cruel acts against innocent children. Through the author’s use of pathos, the reader is emotionally affected. This effect on the reader is necessary to help achieve Wiesel’s overall purpose: to prevent something like the Holocaust from happening

Elie Wiesel’s short memoir Night recounts his experience surviving the concentration camps during the Holocaust. In the third chapter of the book, he focuses on describing what it was like to arrive at the first concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and the process the men had to go through to transform from men into prisoners. In addition to lying about his age and occupation, Wiesel lost his hair, his clothing, his mother and sisters, his name, and most importantly, his faith. Elie Wiesel's use of imagery and diction in Night makes readers understand the true atrocities of the Holocaust.

When Wiesel states "Lie down on it! On your belly!" I obeyed. I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip. "One!...Two!... " he was counting. He took his time between lashes.’’ Which shows how the victim Wiesel is suffering for being at the place at the wrong time Wiesel saw something he shouldn't have which led to him getting hurt. Although he he was dehumanized he was also made be fear full all the time after a bomb was dropped on the camp by the Russians everyone had hope that they would get out alive and be saved by the Russians and when the Nazis found out they hung a little innocent boy in front of the whole camp. I know this because in the text it says “But this boy, leaning against his gallows, up-set me deeply.’’ Which shows that the Nazis want the Jews to be

Wiesel’s father and other Jews were given brutal beatings for reasons, even asking questions. So if the Jews did something wrong or something the SS officers didn’t like, then the Jews were beaten or got several blows to the head or a different area many times. When the SS officers threw bread crumbs into the train and all the men, women, and kids fought and killed for it, that was physical abuse. It’s physical abuse because the SS officers know that the Jews are going to fight for the bread crumbs and the SS officers did it on purpose so the Jews could physically abuse each

Dehumanization was a big problem in the concentration camps and Wiesel outlines and details many experiences that show the cruel inhumane ways that the Jewish people were treated. Throughout the book, dehumanization played a significant role in terms of how his story was told.

The cruelty on the part of the German army and scientists is legendary, but to Holocaust survivors it has been haunting. They did not even treat the Jews like people. For Wiesel, the things he witnesses and experiences at the hands of the Nazis and even desperate Jews, never leaves him. One incident in particular takes the brutality and inhumanity of the Nazi soldiers to a new extreme: the hanging of the pipel, an imprisoned young boy with a beautiful face. The Germans hang a child, not even heavy enough to grant himself a quick death, without remorse. This, the apex of cruelty, again shows the lengths the Nazis are willing to go to simply to make a point and scare the others. This horror adds to the theme when Elie, forced to witness this hanging, recalls, “Behind me I heard the same man asking ‘Where is God now?’ And I heard a voice within me answer him: Where is He? Here He is. He is hanging here on the gallows.”

In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel depicts how he is exposed to cruelty everyday be it from the Nazis or from his fellow Jewish prisoners. Everyday the more cruelty and dehumanization he is exposed to the more he loses his faith. As he and everyone around him lose their faith focus more on self-preservation. Wiesel focused more on the survival of both him and his father. As you read throughout the book his faith dwindles more and more. Some of the best examples of this is when he is told of the crematoria(33) the next example is when the little pipel was hung (65) the biggest example was during the jewish day of Yom Kippur(69).

Have you ever seen a family member or friend die in front of your face? In the book, Night by Elie Wiesel, the Jewish police and the German soldiers took away Jews. German soldiers were killing Jews everyday by starvation, worked to death, or standing in the cold. First of all, Elie Wiesel's Night shows cruelty, suffering, and painful feelings. Elie Wiesel’s Night shows inhumanity and cruelty by taking Jews out of their homes, burning Jews, and beating Jews.

Before Eliezer Wiesel was even sent to the concentration camps, he learned of the Nazi’s cruelty. “[The Gestapo] shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for machine guns” according to Eliezer’s mentor, Moshe the Beadle (6). Although the majority of the citizens thought that this was merely a

During 1944 and 1945, Elie Wiesel experienced the cruelty and barbarians of the Nazis concentration camps. These camps were designed with the solely idea of exterminating the Jewish population. Wiesel along with his family were sent to Auschwitz in cattle carts. During this time Wiesel was separated from his mother

The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a novel portraying the many horrific acts of the Holocaust in a first hand experience. Elie Wiesel himself was one of the few Jews that survived the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was just 15 years old at the time when the Holocaust began to unfold. In his book Night, Elie Wiesel brings to life the experiences he went through during the time of the Holocaust. In the book Night, the themes of Inhumanity, Loss of Faith, Guilt/ Inaction, and Family are portrayed by Elie Wiesel’s experiences.

In this scene from Night, Elie Weisel writes about the ways the Germans treat the prisoners when they arrive at Auschwitz. In this scene, Weisel teaches his reader how the Germans brutalize their prisoners. Weisel describes the Germans as “beating” the prisoners repeatedly and forcing them into “disinfection,” this is similar to how one wouuld treat an object or animal, not a human being. This reflects the brutalizing of the prisoners. Elie writes about how as the prisoners were running they “threw” clothes at them and in that moment they had “ceased to be men”. Weisel also writes about how Meir Katz, “wore a child’s pants” and how Stern, was “floundering in a huge jacket.” The Nazis did not give the prisoners the proper clothes and threw the