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In Elie Wiesel’s Night, imagery is employed to show the dehumanization of the Jewish people by the Nazis as the Jews develop the “survival of the fittest” mentality, and as Eliezer looses the ability to express emotions. Wiesel uses imagery of the Jews’ “survival of the fittest” mentality to show the dehumanization of the Jews who are forced to endure treacherous conditions in the concentration camps. The enslaved Jews experience the worst forms of inhumane treatment. Pushed beyond their ability to deal with the oppressing starvation, cold, disease, exhaustion, and cruelty, the Jews lose their sanity and morality. Thus, Wiesel refers to the Jews as, “wild beasts of prey with animal hatred

Jewish oppression occurs expeditiously. Eliezer and his family are deported to concentration camps in 1944. Eliezer’s destiny is changed by ignoring the admonishing cries he and his family receives about what is to come. “‘Jews, listen to me! That’s all I ask of you. No money. No pity. Just listen to me!’ he kept shouting in the synagogue...Even I did not believe him.” (7) Moishe the Beadle is in the first group of Jews that the Nazis deport. They take him along with many other Jews into a forest. They are deceived into digging deep trenches, lining up, and being shot, falling into the trenches they dug with their own hands. Moishe is the only one who escapes. He returns to Sighet to warn the Jews, but they refuse to listen to him. Pleading, Moishe asks someone - anyone - to believe him. He no longer wants to live, he only wants to prepare the Jews for the impending peril. Because Eliezer and his family refuse to listen to Moishe, they end up in concentration camps. If Eliezer and his family had listened to Moishe, their stories would not have ended as they did. Another example of

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.

The Nazis did everything in their power to dehumanize the inmates in the concentration camps during the holocaust. Night follows the story of a member of the Jewish community, Eliezer Wiesel. This book is Eliezer’s retelling of his experience in the camps, losing his belongings, his family, and finally his humanity.

They were forced to dig trenches, people were shot like animals, and babies were used as targets for machine gun practice. However, people “not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen”. As he tried to warn the people of what could happen to them, he was silenced and shut out by his town. Nobody wanted to listen to the so called “crazy” tales of Moishe the Beadle. Some people believed that he just wanted their pity. Moishe’s words could have saved lives, but instead his silence destroyed them. However this was not the only warning to be silenced. Mrs. Schäcter, a women who Wiesel knew well, continuously shrieked of a fire while in the cattle car being taken away by the Nazis. She pleaded and yelled for the Jews to listen to her. Irritated by her nonsense, “A few young men forced her to sit down, then bound and gagged her”, after which “silence fell again”. Once again the Jews silenced one of their own, claiming the warnings of flames to be only hallucinations. The desire for silence broke down the humanity of the people in the cattle car, as they eventually reverted to animalistic behavior to obtain what they wanted. The words, “silence fell again”, are

The Holocaust was a horrific time period when over six million Jewish people were systematically exterminated by the Nazi government. Throughout this period, the Jews were treated particularly inhumane because the Nazi viewed their ethnicities as a disease to humanity. Dehumanization is a featured theme in Elie Wiesel’s novel about the Holocaust since he demonstrated numerous examples of the severe conditions endured by the Jewish people. The nonfiction story Night by Elie Wiesel focuses on inhumanity and reveals human beings are capable of committing great atrocities and behaving cruelly, when such actions are condoned by society, peer pressure, and ethical beliefs. Elie Wiesel uses literary devices to produce a consistent theme of inhumanity.

Elie Wiesel’s, Night, however breaks that silence on the oppressed, allowing for truths to be brought to light, no matter how horrendous they may be. It was the dehumanization of internees that was the greatest barbarism of the Nazi’s during the holocaust, destroying bodies, minds, and souls to achieve their goal. By targeting the Jews’ humanity the Nazi’s were able to slowly break down a powerful society into single individuals, before using practices to dehumanize the remaining entities. Prominent practices that were carried out within Night include public beatings, starvation, theft of possessions, separating families, crude murders, forced labor, runs, regulated clothing and food rations. Starting with the annihilation of the bodies of the Jews the Germans deemed unworthy, which were women, children, babies, the sick and the crippled. Germans continue the focus of total destruction onto those that survived the first selection through starvation and beatings. Next came the demolishing of the human mind through constant, consecutive mental abuse and inhumane treatment. However, breaking the human soul is the most problematical challenge the Germans have to accomplish to retain absolute control

In the spring of 1944, Elie and his father found themselves surrounded by evil, adversity, and lack of humanity. After a year of transferring between of camps, starvation and torment at the hands of the Nazis (National Socialist German Workers Party), he was liberated. However, since he was a minor, he was shoved into a French orphanage and then kicked out at the age of eighteen. In spite of this, he attended University of Paris and taught Hebrew at multiple universities before becoming

Close your eyes and imagine this horrifying scene: a dark, dirty concentration camp, a huge pit of flames, a son holding his father firmly by the hand, and then throwing his father in the flames. As you read Elie’s horrifyingly inhumane description of the concentration camps, in which they were degraded and tortured in ways impossible to comprehend, you begin to see one major relationship in every key event: inhumanity. The inhumanity of a group of people will be brought out in deplorable conditions. When you look at a dog and you look at a human, you can see distinct differences. Many times the inmates of the concentration camps were referred to as animals and treated like them as well.

Imagine experiencing one of the largest genocides in history first-hand. Elie Wiesel explains in detail his experiences of Nazi Germany in his popular book Night. Wiesel walks through the horrifying truths of being kicked out of his home, getting thrown in and out of different concentration camps and witnessing innocent people burned to death, sent to the gas chambers and shot point blank, because of their religion or sexuality. Wiesel uses symbolism multiple times throughout Night to aid in reader's understanding of how tragic the events of the holocaust were.

In the novel Night written by Elie Wiesel, the story follows Eliezer and his chilling tale of his time through the Holocaust. Eliezer lives with his father, mother, and his younger sister in their house in the small town of Sighet, Transylvania. Eventually, German troops begin to appear within the town, but none are as violent as the tales from Moishe the Beadle. Moishe tried to warn the Jewish people within his town about the Germans and their intentions, but no one believed his stories. They all said he was crazy and that he did not make sense as the Germans had done nothing to harm them intentionally. Slowly changes occurred throughout the town and the Germans began to act violent towards the townspeople. The troops made the families give

-Moishe the Beadle taught Elie the Cabala and Jewish mysticism. When he is deported before all the other Sighet Jews, he warns them of what the Gestapo are doing to the Jews and it’s Elie first real brush with what was happening outside of Sighet.

Families had been split up and divided between male and female, only to never see each other again. In the memoir Elie himself began to state that he did not believe in anything Moishe the Beadle has come back to warn the others of. Since he was a foreign Jew he was one of the first ones to go, so he already had experienced what was going to happen to the rest. One of the biggest examples he used to try and warn the others, which is a huge example of inhumanity, is as follows: “Without passion or haste, they 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 the machine guns” (Weisel 6).

“Moishe the Beadle came running into our house. “I warned you,” he shouted. . . . The same day, the Hungarian police burst into every Jewish home in town” (Wiesel 10). Elie and his dad were in a concentration camp together and Elie wanted it to stay that way. Elie asked the guard to keep him and his father together for the time being and the guard was acceptive of his request.

However, some Jews did not possess this instinct and held a different logic which persuaded them to stay. For some, the possibility of Jews being exterminated was a ridiculous concept. Many Jews had fought valiantly and patriotically for Germany in World War I, and to think that Jews would then be killed for being nothing but of a religion, was, to many, too illogical to comprehend (Common Questions). There were also those who heard of a pending genocide, but paid no heed. This was true for Elie Wiesel’s family, as described in Night. Wiesel and his family lived in Sighet, a small town in Transylvania. Wiesel explained that one day, all foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet, including a man called “Moishe the Beadle.” The Jews of Sighet did not know of the mass killings and imprisonments and believed that the deportees were living well. After months had passed, Moishe returned to Wiesel’s town, and explained that he miraculously escaped the Nazi’s capture. He urgently warned the Jews of their fate, pleading, “Jews, listen to me! That’s all I ask of you” (Wiesel 42). The Jews paid no mind to the warnings. Wiesel writes that even “[he]