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    Inhumanity The cruelty from the Holocaust is something people read and they wish it would not have happened. The story about a man named Elie Wiesel is something that makes people think. Elie Wiesel wrote a book about the Holocaust, the book is a memoir and the name is Night. In the book, he shows people how Nazis acted during the Holocaust and how cruel they really are. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, cruelty reveals the theme of man's inhumanity to man. The Nazis, cruel, heartless beings, call

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    During the Holocaust, over six million Jews were destroyed. In the book “Night”, Elie Wiesel tells the struggles he went through, being a Jew at this time. Throughout the book, the Nazi’s showed many examples of man’s inhumanity to man like the following examples: starvation, torture, and overworking. One form of man’s inhumanity to man is starvation. For example, the Jews were denied food and water for three days. (Pg. 95) During this time, they lost even more weight, which was very unhealthy

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    Themes of Night The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a novel portraying the many horrific acts of the Holocaust in a first hand experience. Elie Wiesel himself was one of the few Jews that survived the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was just 15 years old at the time when the Holocaust began to unfold. In his book Night, Elie Wiesel brings to life the experiences he went through during the time of the Holocaust. In the book Night, the themes of Inhumanity, Loss of Faith, Guilt/ Inaction, and Family are portrayed

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    that someone who is supposed to love them unconditionally, the people He himself created, can cause them pain and suffering. In the autobiography, Night by Elie Wiesel, the psychological journey that Eliezer has to go through, which is witnessing the deepest inhumanity of which man is capable of,

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    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. Wiesel struggled a lot with his faith in Night. Before the Holocaust

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    The novel Night (2006), by Elie Wiesel, illustrates a strong theme of inhumanity towards other humans. Night is a nerve-racking record of the authors’ experiences in the Holocaust, set in the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Wiesel retells his visions of the Nazis horrendous treatment towards the Jews. The book gives the reader a perspective of an adolescent living in a horrible situation, where he and others who believe in the Jewish religion are treated with no humanity. When

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    Inhumanity Often authors write novels about their own traumatic experiences to inform readers about how brutal and inhuman mankind can be. In the memoir Night, the author Elie Wiesel narrates about his daily life starting in 1944 when he began living in different concentration camps struggling to survive the Holocaust, the mass killing of 6 million Jews as well as millions of other innocent people . The Nazi’s reason for killing the innocent was due to their race and religion. Most people are aware

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    In the book Night Elie Wiesel states that he saw “infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns”(Wiesel 6). Elie saw kids getting shot so he lost hope and that's inhumanity because you don't see babies getting shot. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel inhumanity made him lose hope and inhumanity can cause more inhumanity. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel inhumanity can cause people to lose hope. To begin with, Elie's dad was getting beat for his food because people were

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    A Theme of Inhumanity The depletion of kindness, compassion, and general respect defines the word inhumanity. Inhumanity occurs frequently throughout history. From a child facing physical abuse to a child facing discrimination, humans show inhumanity towards others continuously. I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Night by Elie Wiesel both share a universal theme of inhumanity because in both books the narrators endure people regarding them without the respect they deserve. I am Malala contains

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    with Morrie and Night, humanity and inhumanity is commonly heard about. In Tuesday’s with Morrie I think that one form of inhumanity is Mitch being selfish and not wanting to make decisions and do things that he needs to do. Mitch is all about what it is going to take to get him where he wants to be. “ … and I hope that he hadn't noticed my arrival so that I could drive around the block a few more times, finish my business, get mentally ready.” (Albom 27). Another example of inhumanity is the disease

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