Inhumanity In Elie Wiesel's Night

In the beginning of the story Elie Wiesel and his father were not that close. He says his father worked a lot. This is how Wiesel describes him “My father was a cultured, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his feelings not even with his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than of his own kin”(Wiesel 4). He describes him as a man that worked and didn’t really express his feelings to anyone. Him and his father weren’t that close. Throughout all the events that happen to them in the book he then realizes family is the only thing he has now and he doesn’t want to lose him. Later on, they’re sent to camp and Elie Wiesel and his father are together and that is when they become closer. When they were at these concentration camps he says, “ I tightend my grip on my father’s hand. The old ,familiar fear not to lose him”(Wiesel 104). Before they weren’t that close, later on when they went to these camps they were faced with inhumanity. That got them closer. Now, he feared to lose his father. In the end, this demonstrates that when they faced these cruel things they learned to be closer to each other because they don’t want anything to happen to one

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.

When living through the holocaust the SS men were continuously cruelty to keep the prisoners in fear of them so they are easy to control. Elie Wiesel uses his personal experiences from living in the camps to write the memoir Night. The memoir shows how cruelty can change a person's personality, and how they react and treat other people. Cruelty is not always a physical thing, the SS men used emotional cruelty to bend the prisoners to there will. Several cruel things happened to the prisoners, but the Nazis were not the only ones who were cruel. The prisoners became rude and ruthless to each other.

"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

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.

There are people crowded, shoulder to shoulder, expecting a shower and to feel water raining down their bodies. Sighs of relief turn into screams of terror as innocent people are gasping for their last breaths of air inside of the gas chamber. This was a daily occurrence for Jewish and other people involved in the Holocaust. This was just one horrific event of many that had happened to women, men and children. Some of the survivors have used their voice to speak out about their own background during their time spent in Auschwitz and other concentration camps. Elie Wiesel, author of the book Night, is one of the many who did so. Wiesel talks about his personal experience and shares his feelings, thoughts and emotions that he went through with others during the Holocaust.

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.

Many themes exist in Night, Elie Wiesel’s nightmarish story of his Holocaust experience. From normal life in a small town to physical abuse in concentration camps, Night chronicles the journey of Wiesel’s teenage years. Neither Wiesel nor any of the Jews in Sighet could have imagined the horrors that would befall them as their lived changed under the Nazi regime. The Jews all lived peaceful, civilized lives before German occupation. Eliezer Wiesel was concerned with mysticism and his father was “more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (4). This would change in the coming weeks, as Jews are segregated, sent to camps, and both physically and emotionally abused. These changes and abuse would dehumanize

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 can be defined as, the quality or state of being cruel or barbados. The Holocaust is an example of large scale prejudice and discrimination towards one ethnicity of people. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the sheer scale of absolute disrespect and disregard for human life is narrated by Eliezer, who encounters endless hellish behavior against him and his family. At the age of twelve, Eliezer is separated from his mother and three sisters at the onset of a concentration camp.

Man’s inhumanity to man is where men and women treat each other as if they were not humans. In the historical memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, this theme of man’s inhumanity to man is shown through many cruel events such as starvation, beatings, death marches, cremation, and gas chambers. Jews were also stripped of their identities, this lead to them being treated inhumanly. They were thought of just another body instead of a human. In this memoir Elie along with millions of other Jews were treated inhumanly because of their religion.

Throughout our daily lives, we are consistently presented with news of fear and death. However, these events are so numb to people because people believe there is nothing that can be done, nor do they have room in heart to even try to make changes. Elie Wiesel's Night demonstrates many of the horrendous conditions of the Jews. From being burned alive in the crematories, to being shot right on the spot, the S.S soldiers had no remorse towards the Jews. In spite of their persecution, the Jews showed immense devotion to their religion and remained faithful to their God.

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.

“I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.” -Audre Lorde The seemingly selfish action of not caring for others and only for oneself can arise in people when they are faced with inhumane treatment.

The theme of the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, is inhumanity and how the Nazis made the Jews in their concentration camps feel less that human. Elie is a young boy who gets taken near the end of World War 2 and moved throughout different concentration camps around Poland and Germany. This theme is developed throughout Elie’s travels to different concentration camps and seeing how he and other prisoners are treated. “Buna was a veritable hell. No water, no blankets, less soup and bread. At night, we slept almost naked and the temperature was thirty below. We were collection corpses by the hundreds every day” (Wiesel 70). Like the quote says, it was hell. They were treated like animals and never got anything they needed. Hundreds died everyday