Inhumanity In Elie Wiesel's Night

In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he was faced with inhumanity. In the story he tells us about it. “Over there. Do you see the chimney over there? Do you see it? And the flames, do you see them?(Yes, we saw the flames) Over there, that’s where they will take you. Over there will be your grave. You still don’t understand? Don’t you understand anything? You will be burned! Burned to a cinder! Turned into ashes!”(Wiesel 30). They were telling them that they were going to throw them in the fire so they could burn but they didn’t know that was going to happen. As the author describes his experience, many other examples of inhumanity are revealed. Two significant themes related to inhumanity discussed in the book

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 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln once stated “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power” (“Too Much Power Qoutes” AZ Quotes). Under the leadership of Adolph Hitler, the Nazi Party tore away the basic rights of human beings based upon the belief of anti-semitism. People of Jewish faith were persecuted to unimaginable limits, and their normal everyday lives were changed for forever. Article Five of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” (United Nations General Assembly). Throughout Elie Wiesel’s autobiography Night, Elie and his family are violated of this right as a Jewish family during the Holocaust.

The human condition is a very malleable idea that is constantly changing due to the current state of mankind. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the concept of the human condition is displayed in the worst sense of the concept, during the Holocaust of WWII. During this time, multiple groups of people, most notably European Jews, were persecuted against and sent to horrible hard labor and killing centers such as Auschwitz. In this memoir, Wiesel uses complex figurative language such as similes and metaphors to display the theme that a person’s state as a human, both at a physical and emotional level, can be altered to extreme lengths, and even taken away from them under the most extreme conditions.

The human race has always struggled with the simple task of being humane. This started with the people killing over land, all the way to terrible events, such as the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel does a great job in his book, Night, talking about some of the things the Nazis did. The Nazis treated the Jewish people in the most inhumane way history has ever seen. The book approaches this just by throwing it directly in one’s face. Elie has a lot to say about humanity and inhumanity, as does Morrie Schwartz. Morrie is a Professor at Brandeis University and does a great job explaining why humanity should overcome inhumanity. Both Elie and Morrie agree that humanity and inhumanity were both very big things in their lifetime and humanity can be achieved through love, and concern for others.

"Night" by Elie Wiesel is "A slim volume of terrifying power" (The New York Time), the novel is concerning the tragic events that occurred during the Holocaust. The first section of the memoir raises an internal conflict, regarding the Jews of Sighet being ignorant about the terrifying events that are occurring outside their small town. This conflict is created when Moishe the Beadle escaped from the Gestapo and returned to Sighet to warn the Jews of the crisis, which is happening right under their noses. This is shown in the following quote, "he went from one Jewish house to the next, telling his story" (7), despite warning his community of the dangers that are progressing towards them, the Jews of Sighet ignored him and did not believe Moishe. The ignorance of the Jews is shown when

In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he loses faith in God. ¨But there were those who said we should fast, precisely because it was dangerous to do so. We needed to show God that even here, locked in hell, we were capable of singing His praises¨ (Wiesel 69). Wiesel is losing faith in God and not believing in him. Wiesel believes that he could still pray for God, even though he thinks God does not answer his prayers. Two significant themes related to inhumanity discussed in the book Night by Elie Wiesel are losing faith in God and disbelief.

Inhumanity. The cruelest of people are responsible for this. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses imagery, tone, and characterization to show the effects of inhumane actions. Night is about a young boy and his father who get separated from the rest of their family during selection of the Holocaust. This story tells how Elie survived his times in the concentration camps, even with all of the inhumane actions of the Germans.

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.

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.

In the novel Night, the author and protagonist, Elie, goes through change because of dehumanization and oppression. During World War II, Adolf Hitler wanted to abolish all Jews from society by murdering and putting them in concentration camps, an event known as the Holocaust. These camps held millions of Jews that were treated like dehumanized animals by the German police. Night is a novel written about the experiences about a boy, Elie Wiesel, who lived through the holocaust. He wrote Night in order to give a voice to those that were unable to do so of the events in the concentration camps. In Night, Elie Wiesel's faith was strong in the beginning of the novel, and started to decrease during his time at the concentration camp, and completely disappeared by the end of the Holocaust.

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.

Inhumanity The cruelty from the Holocaust is something people read and they wish it would not have happened. The story about a man named Elie Wiesel is something that makes people think. Elie Wiesel wrote a book about the Holocaust, the book is a memoir and the name is Night. In the book, he shows people how Nazis acted during the Holocaust and how cruel they really are.

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night screaming because whenever you close your eyes images of the horrifying past haunt your dreams. Elie Wiesel writes in his book Night about his memories of when he was taken along with his family by Nazi’s in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, then to Buchenwald. The book is full of ups and downs as Elie and his dad experience conflict after conflict throughout their time in concentration camps. Throughout the text one can easily see that Elie showed how inhumanity can injure the human mind through imagery, tone and through paradoxes. One way Elie shows inhumanity can injure the human mind is through imagery.

The human brutality in the memoir Night shows examples of how the people in Germany were brainwashed into thinking what they did was right. The nazis would beat these people until they had no emotions left and nothing to think for themselves. Wiesel writes that on a regular day the people were watching hangings in the gallows. They were being starved ad they were living in conditions that men typically would not be living in. The living conditions they were in were not of human beings but animals. In the memoir Night Elie Wiesel writes of the human brutality that caused him to lose faith in the world.