In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel gives many examples many examples of dehumanization. Some examples of dehumanization include hanging prisoners,shaving the prisoner’s heads and taking their sentimental belongings and killing prisoners with gas and burning there remains. The holocaust was a difficult and brutal time were a german group called the Nazis killed over 6 million jewish people because of there beliefs and religion. Many jewish prisoners kept journals and recorded there hard days working
Stealing everything they have, treating them like animals, and taking their lives. These are all examples of dehumanization that millions of Jews experienced during the Holocaust. The book, Night, by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, provides an overview of Elie’s experiences during the Holocaust, and there were a multitude of ways that Elie and his inmates were dehumanized. It all started in 1944, when Elie and his family were deported from their home in Sighet and taken to the Auschwitz concentration
In Elie Wiesel’s autobiography, “Night” there are many examples of dehumanization from start to finish. Dehumanization is stripping a person of every quality that makes them human. This includes their identity, individuality, and soul. The Night shows the process by which the Nazis reduced the Jews to little more than “things” which were a nuisance to them. The book takes place in World War 2, in the Holocaust. Eliezer and his family are very much directly affected by actions taken by the Nazis as
The novel Night by Elie Wiesel tells a devastating tale of a young man in concentration camp in World War II. Concentration camps were used in World War II to dehumanize and terrorize Jews. Dehumanization is the act of depriving humans of their rights and treating them as if they were worse than animals. Humans had been fighting for so long to get equality for everyone, but then Hitler rose to power and undid the work society had done. Many examples of how World War II used dehumanization were Hitler
Stripped from Hope Dehumanization is to strip the rights and qualities of a person or people. In the Night, by Elie Wiesel uses tone, imagery and diction to explain how the Jews were punished and how cruel the Nazis were to them. They were stripped of their clothes, forced to work and overworked and stacked like cattle in a slaughter house. One quote that shows dehumanization is, “Faster! Faster! Move you lazy good for nothings” (19). This supports dehumanization because they were always getting
the lives of six million persons, Jews, Catholics, and homosexuals. Night a memoir by Elie Wiesel was a book about the life as a Jew in the 1940’s. He explains how he suffered during the year that he was there, the camps he was at. The pain that he went thru getting separated from his mother, finding out that her and his sister Tzipora got sent to the crematorium. Life for a Jew in the 1940’s suck. Elie went thru dehumanization because of the way he gets treated in the concentration camps, from getting
In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie gives us insight on his three-year long journey as a prisoner of the holocaust. He informs his readers that the Jewish community had to withstand the dehumanization brought upon by depraved Germans, deprived Jews, and the war inside of themselves. Elie relays his experiences, focusing on the dehumanization the Jewish population suffered from the Nazis through cruel punishments, and harsh epithets. The Jews endured severe castigation for many years; for example, on page
Wiesel’s memoir Night. Throughout his memoir, Elie Wiesel perceives how humans commit evil out of fear, however, Wiesel’s relationship with his father made him stronger, gave him purpose, and made him human in spite of the evil that surrounded them. During the Holocaust, millions of Jews suffered the atrocities that the Nazi put them through. For example, the Nazis forced them to live in inhumane conditions in ghettos, cattle cars, and concentration camps. Elie Wiesel’s memoir, NIGHT, examines the
novel Night by Elie Wiesel is about a protagonist’s personal experience during World War II as a Jew. Despite ominous signs, among many other Jews, Wiesel and his family failed to vacate, because they believed that the Fascists would not maltreat them. Consequently, the Jews were sent to concentration camps. Since the Jews were isolated and deprived of positive human qualities, the concentration camps connect to alienation and dehumanization. Moreover, it violates Human Rights. For example, the camps
“Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed” - Paulo Freire We could all see that “things get treated better than humans in this book. Some events like being squished on a train for hour and having to be moved from car to car, being portrayed as a “number”, and starvation are some examples of dehumanization, this happened to have them. Elie Wiesel the