Dehumanization In Night

Dehumanization is the psychological process of demonizing the enemy, making them seem less than human and hence not worthy of humane treatment. This can lead to increased violence, human rights violations, war crimes, and genocide.Going back to a time period where light was non-existent. Darkness covered the earth, not even the stars could give off light in its piercing darkness. Stars give off a light , the star of David was the light of the Jews, that light of the star was overshadowed by the pitch darkness of night. Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, Night documents the horrendous events of the holocaust through the eyes of Elie Wiesel that he experienced . During this time period humanity was briefly shown towards people . Dehumanization
“Listen to me, kid . Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp . In this place, it is everyman for himself, and you can not think of others. Not even your father. In this place there is no such thing as father brother friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. Let me give you good advice : stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father . You cannot help him anymore. And you are hurting yourself.(pg 107)”Elie was told this and felt that this “Blockalteste” which showed selfishness in his words was correct and even doubt himself and even thought about having humanity towards himself and eating his fathers portion but he didn't “ I listened to him without interrupting . He was right, I thought deep down , not daring to admit it to myself. Too late to save your old father… You could have two rations of bread , two rations of soup .. It was a fraction of a second, but it left me feeling guilty. I ran to get some soup and brought it to my father”(pg 110 and 111) . Being in the Holocaust turns you into a madman and the persuasion grows and your loyalty gets
I can’t go on …” dehumanization was used here the guards were treating Elie and his father like rags and hence the guards treating them like they were not worthy of being treated like human . Around the end of the book humanity was shown after the Russians came. “But on our way we met some prisoners who whispers to us , go back to your block, the Germans plan to shoot you go back and don't move”. Elie and his father stayed days without water and stilled pulled through “ We stayed in gleiwitz for three days. Days without food or water. We were forbidden to leave the barrack. Thee door was guarded by the SS.” (pg 95) ,The Russians came and humanity came to to place. Dehumanization like this should never occur ever again Elie had to go through a lot along with his family witnessing the terror through his eyes. Even though Elie and other peoples humanity was questioned through tuff situations he still pulled through with his only family left his father and came through like a champion