North Korean Genocide In Night By Elie Wiesel

Injustice brings anger and fear to everyone. It could cause someone to act unconsciously or hide to wait for an end. Injustice shapes our history, proven by the French Revolution, the Holocaust, and 9/11. Yet these events are history, what is the right way to respond and end injustice? Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and writer, wrote many forms of literacy including Night that shares his experiences and actions during the Holocaust and “We Choose Honor” an article that features 9/11 and the United States’s response to it. Similarly, Maurice Ogden’s poem “The Hangman” demonstrates the flaws that occur when a population refuses to confront authority or injustice. Wiesel argues that the right way to respond to an act of injustice is to work as a group with your peers to solve the situation. Wiesel is correct in his belief of solving injustice because humans, at their core, are social beings that are more likely to succeed helping each other, and a group of humans is more intimidating and have more power to overcome injustice.

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,

Being completely controlled and even afraid is a part of people’s everyday lives, those of North Korea. Hatred towards this totalitarianism is a philosopher and novelist, Ayn Rand. Rand has written a novel, Anthem, to display the impact of totalitarianism and how she opposes this type of system. Between the everyday life in North Korea and the dystopian society in Anthem, are many similarities and some differences. The structure of the governments, the state of the people, and the little progress made within North Korea and the society of Anthem can certainly be compared.

In 1933, 62% of the Jewish population lived in Europe. In 1950, that number dropped to 31%. This is because of the Holocaust, a wide-scale extermination of discriminated against groups, most specifically, Jews. Hitler, the dictator of Germany at that time, “relocated” the Jews and put them into work camps, with the end goal of killing every Jew in Europe. Elie Wiesel survived the terrors of the concentration camps when he was 16, as he describes in his famous memoir Night.

For breakfast they were served black coffee. For lunch they were served a bowl of soup. For dinner they were served a piece of bread. This is what they ate everyday while they were in the camps. One Sunday there was an air-raid. Near the kitchen 2 cauldrons of soup had been left, half full. “Two cauldrons of soup, right in the middle of the path, with no on guarding them! A feast for kings, abandoned, supreme temptation. Hundreds of eye looked at them, sparkling with desire….But who would dare?” (Wiesel 43). They were all tempted by the food that was left unguarded. Only one dared go near it. When he did the SS shot him. In chapter 7 Elie discusses wagon ride that lasted 10 days and 10 nights. “One day when we had stopped, a workman took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into the wagon….Dozens of starving men fought each other to the death for a few crumbs. The German workmen took a lively interest in this spectacle.”

The biggest and most well known genocide is The Holocaust. It happened 72 years ago and people still wince from the thought. Today, in 2017, there is a genocide occurring that a large portion of the population is completely unaware of. The genocide that is spoken of is happening in North Korea, to their own race. There are two articles written by two different men to educate the reader on this country-wide issue. The first writer is Joshua Stanton in Holocaust Now: Looking Down into Hell at Camp 22. Stanton is known for helping the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs, draft H.R. 1771, and the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act. He has started a free website informing people about the problems in North Korea’s labor camps and has posted numerous articles on this website. Since the website started, his work has been cited by big name news programs such as CNN, New York Times, and The Daily Beast. The other article is The Forgotten Genocide, written by Robert Park. Park is an activist for human rights, a well known minister, and a former prisoner of conscience. He is also known for being a founding member of the nonpartisan Worldwide Coalition to Stop Genocide in North Korea. He is known for having published work about North Korea’s

Genocide is everywhere. In Europe, Africa, and etc. Genocide is the act of killing a large group of people (ethnic group or nation). The Nazi mainly murdered the Jews, but they also murdered Gypsies, Homos, and Slavs.Anyone can be a victim of genocide. Elie Wiesel is a famous survivor. He wasn't a victim, he was a witness. He wrote a novel called “Night” and it's about what he say and how he felt when he was a prisoner of the concentration camps. He also lost his mother, father, and sisters to the crematorium.Rudolf Vrba is a witness too. “I was in a death factory, an extermination centre where thousand upon thousands of men,women, and children were gassed and burned, not so much because they were Jewish, though that was the primary though in the sick mind at the Fuhrer, but because in death they made a contribution to Germany’s war effort.” (Vrba 1993) Nazi genocide deals with Adolf Hitler. Hitler and his Nazis murdered different

“I learned that the hard way” it is a statement that is often used in regular everyday conversation. Situations or struggles that individuals have to deal with teach them lessons about the world and may in turn impact who they are. In Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night, Elie develops the idea that adversity in one's life can quite drastically change or shape a person's identity and mentally wear them down to the point where they are incapable of being who they truly are even after they already have developed their own ways of being. He continually develops this idea throughout the book when he talks about his relationship with God and his view of his family or more specifically his father. Additionally, he shows this with his father, Shlomo, who begins

Society was robbed of their humanity and brainwashed into believing that one race was superior. During World War II, brutality became a custom and was used as a tool to instill fear in the lives of millions of Jewish people. Elie Wiesel is the author of the autobiography, Night. Night shows the holocaust through the perspective of Elie Wiesel, a young, jewish boy at the time of the holocaust. The book follows him going to Auschwitz in 1944, and facing trauma during the time of World War II, during the reign of Hitler. Elie Wiesel was affected by the holocaust and transformed not only physically, but mentally due to the suffrage that he endured at the hands of the Nazis, at a time when he felt most vulnerable.

"There may be times where we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest" said Elie Wiesel. Dehumanization played a large role in the holocaust. They labeled, did experiments, and tortured millions of people. The nazis made them less than human and it made all of what they did easier. Not only was dehumanization apart of the holocaust, it became apart of society today.

Bang! I heard him hit someone. Blood, the color of a beautiful rose, dripped down his face. No one felt for him, we were all blank canvases. Elie Wiesel wrote the book Night to show everyone what the Holocaust was like through the dehumanization, beatings, little food, and harsh work. The major thing he brings up is how the Nazis gradually dehumanize them to the point where they don't care if their father, brother, or friend dies or gets hurt.

Dehumanized. Tortured. Starved. Those three words are referred to how the concentration camps were like. The memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel tells the story of his memory of the concentration camps and how it all turned into a big nightmare. Sighet is a little town in Transylvania where Elie spent his childhood. As a young boy Elie was very religious. Shlomo, Elies father was as well very religious. Religion meant a lot to him, however through out the Holocaust Shlomo and Elie soon realize what really is important.

Steven Pinker implied that, “As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to the mass murder of people” (1). Steven Pinker revealed an interesting side to the controversial topic of mass murders and the causes of them. He revealed that as long as people in this world believe that they are better than other due to their race, religion, and everything else that defines a group of people as different from another group of people. People are and have been wrongfully treated differently due to the incompetence of some to realize that everyone is equal. They often believe that they were superior to others because of their physical attributes and beliefs that they had. The

A tragic event can change someone’s life forever in a good way or a bad way. The holocaust shaped people's lives into a way where they can never go back. In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changed as a person due to his experiences at Auschwitz. Elie was a victim of the holocaust and it changed his life forever as a person and a Jew.

1984 demonstrates a dystopian society in Oceania by presenting a relentless dictator, Big Brother, who uses his power to control the minds of his people and to ensure that his power never exhausts. Aspects of 1984 are evidently established in components of society in North Korea. With both of these society’s under a dictator’s rule, there are many similarities that are distinguished between the two. Orwell’s 1984 becomes parallel to the world of dystopia in North Korea by illustrating a nation that remains isolated under an almighty ruler.