Night Dehumanization Essay

Jake Wood, when talking about dehumanization once said, “You are no longer human. There is no feeling anymore, because to feel any emotion, would also be to beckon the overwhelming blackness around you, my mind has locked this down. I do not feel anymore”. Once you stop being human you no longer have the ability to think. You have lost contact with all outside that you start to act like what they made you which is a animal. In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, he is discussing the topic of dehumanization. The time is 1942 the concentration camps throughout Europe. We are following the story of Elie his father, and thousands of others as they struggle to survive hell on earth. Although some may say that the circumstances Elie had to go through still show he is the same person, Elie Wiesel shows what the concentration camps, and the humans running it did on people mentally, and physically to prove that Elie did change his way of thinking, and whole outlook on society once he was established in the camps.
In the book “Night”, by Elie Wiesel,
Elie talking about his change in attitude said” Had i changed so much, then? So quickly?Now remorse began to gnaw at me. I Thought only. I Shall never forgive them for that”. When did Elie become such a hateful boy?he had changed so much just from one day to the next. In the book Elie showed us the cause of his change which was seeing his big role model get humiliated whom was his father. His father was like a hero to him and since Elie did not see his father stand up for himself instead just lay there scared not being able to say anything, then what could he do? The holocaust had a big impact on people, but mostly it was the jews. They were the ones who went through that horrible century.They lived in death and saw death everywhere they went so how much can that mentally damage a