Night And Whitman

Wiesel exemplified the dehumanization of the Jewish prisoners in Night. He showed the readers a personal view of the Nazi's treatment to the prisoners. They lost their possessions,

Night is an non fiction, dramatic book that tells the horrors of the nazi death camps all around Europe. The book is an autobiographical account of what happened, so the main character is the author. The author is Elie Wiesel who was only 14 year old when Nazi Germany came through his town of Sighet, Transylvania. This is story is set between the years of 1944 and 1945. Elie and his family of 4 are optimistic when Germany begins to take power. Germany invades Hungary, then arrives in Elie’s town. The Nazi’s begin to take over the Jews by limiting their freedom. Jews are eventually deported. The Jewish people are crowded into wagons where they are shipped to Auschwitz. He is separated from his mother and sister. Over the course of the book,

The book “Night” is a true story about Eliezer Wiesel’s life as a teenager during the Holocaust. It was written by Wiesel himself and was published by Prentice Halls in 1956, with a shorter version in 2000. Throughout “Night”, there are three powerful quotes to focus on and understand, in order to fully grasp the importance of the Holocaust.

First, the reader views Wiesel’s personality changes as a result of life in Auschwitz. Perhaps the most obvious change is his steadily increasing disinterest of religion. Before his internment, Wiesel demonstrates a growing interest in the religion of his parents. During the day, he studied Talmud, a legal commentary on the Torah, or the Jewish Ten Commandments. At night, he would worship at the synagogue, “to weep over the

Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night (1958), follows a young Elie who discovers that there are detrimental consequences to standing by inequity and beneficial effects to taking action to the subjugation of an individual. While integrating anaphor and metaphor, Wiesel reinforces his theme by illustrating the environment of detestable concentration camps in Poland to initiate the conflict of the struggle between protecting others over personal interests. His objective is to disseminate his unjust experience to ensure society never loses knowledge of the atrocity and to prevent repeated history. Through unveiling his arduous journey, Wiesel creates an atmosphere of despondency and regret for readers to encourage standing up to injustice. In addition,

In this scene from Night, Elie Wiesel and his inmates are rushed out of their barracks at 5 A.M, forced to strip, and ordered run, naked and cold. Elie unveils that enslavement strips one of their personal identity leading to dehumanization. Wiesel observes “Mountains of prison garb” in the concentration camp. The use of hyperbole, exaggerating the amount of prison garb, emphasizes the high density of individuals in the camp. They are forced to wear the same uniform clothing, illustrating the destruction of individuality. The use of the word “prison” shows the birth of subjection. Wiesel also uses syntax to demonstrate the conformity of the camp, recalling the daily routine “Disinfection. Everybody soaked in it. Then came a hot shower. All

Upon entering the concentration camp, Wiesel is disturbed by the mass slaughter, as evidenced by the inhumane selection and widespread starvation he glimpses. As Jewish prisoners respond with religious services and prayers to God for the murdered, Wiesel questions, “Blessed be God's name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because he caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves?”

Elie Wiesel’s Faith: Burned in the Flames ‘Dehumanization’ can be defined as the process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities. In Elie Wiesel’s powerful memoir Night, the reader is taken on Elie’s haunting journey through the Holocaust. As Elie’s journey unfolds, the extreme forms of dehumanization and human cruelty slowly chip away at his faith. As Elie recounts his experiences in the concentration camps, a central theme emerges: the impact of dehumanization on an individual's faith. Elie, along with his fellow prisoners, are stripped away of humanity and dignity, ultimately leading to the deterioration of their faith.

Within the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the author does an exceptional job of allowing the reader to feel empathy. His record of the personal traumas that he faced during his retainment at Holocaust Concentration camps is detailed, raw, and emotional. Elie succeeds in including serious and relevant topics during the telling of his story. One of the more prominent topics that his story focuses on is his treatment as The Other during the Holocaust, and how that changed his views on religion. His story not only allows the reader to view the different ways that one can be treated as the other, but he also lets the reader see how that changes a person in more ways than one can imagine. Treating one person differently can change how they see themselves and how they see others, but that is not all. Elie allows the readers to see how treatment as The Other can change someone physically, mentally, and it can change how someone views the world and what it holds. The treatment that the Jewish community endured

The haunting confrontations of the Holocaust documented by Elie Wiesel in his memoir Night bring to light the profound lasting effects on victims. As Elie walks through the different stages of the Holocaust, the different horrors he faces change him. These changes mould him to the core of who he is, even touching his faith. In his memoir, Elie reflects on a transformation shaped by his experiences and endurance of dehumanization and desentization that shaped his overall identity. The beginning of Elie’s journey is marked by his loss of faith under the dehumanising conditions of the camp.

“Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds,” Elie Wiesel, the late author of the Holocaust based memoir, Night. Wiesel spent May 1944 to April 1945 in the death camp of Auschwitz and as marching prisoner of the SS. During that awful year, he witnessed and experienced horrors unlike anything anyone should have to endure. These times changed him and his perspective on the world around him. Humans committing such inhumane actions on their fellows forced him to observe the effects that such treatment had on both the human condition and their actions and thoughts.

Elie Wiesel once said that “No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.” The Nazi Party; however, impose themselves over people of Jewish race and faith through their use of dehumanization. Through the holocaust death camps, the SS belittle the Jewish people, and set them to the level of livestock animals. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, Wiesel depicts of the unrivaled extent of dehumanization the holocaust prisoners are oppressed by, primarily displayed through the animalistic treatment of the prisoners throughout their time in the camp, the lack of humane nutrition provided to the prisoners, and the removal of the prisoners very identity by replacing their names with

When events take a turn for the worse, some of what would seem to be detrimental actually become beneficial. During World War II, the Nazi Party believed that the Non-Aryan citizens of Europe were the cause of the recent downfall that was occurring in the continent. Specifically, Hitler and his forces targeted Jews mercilessly. Elie Wiesel, at the time just a young boy from Sighet , was incarcerated for merely existing as a Jew. Ten years after liberation, he documents the reality of his time in the camps. Wiesel’s loss of faith results in the strengthening of his relationship with his father.

“I observe slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor,/ and/ upon/ negroes, and the like;” (Walt Whitman) Whitman observes the poor workers and the Negroes that were treated like objects in the hands of the wealthy. In a similar situation, Jews were seen as subhumans compared to everyone else. The Jews were blamed for every crisis that happened in Germany. The ones who were chosen as the fittest in the concentration camps, were then used as tools and nothing more. “He ordered four prisoners to wash the wooden floor. . . . An hour before leaving the camp! Why? For whom? “For the liberating army, he cried. So they’ll realize there were men living here and not pigs.” Were we men then?” (Elie Wiesel, 80) Whitman’s statement compliments this quote from “Night” because Whitman explains that the poor workers and the Negroes were treated with disrespect and Wiesel describes how the men were treated to the point where they thought they were no longer human.

Everyone experiences emotional and physiological obstacles in their life. However, these obstacles are incomparable to the magnitude of the obstacles the prisoners of the Holocaust faced every day. In his memoir, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, illustrates the horrors of the concentration camps and their mental tool. Over the course of Night, Wiesel demonstrates, that exposure to an uncaring, hostile world leads to destruction of faith and identity.