Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel
The book Night, by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, gives a firsthand account of the events that took place. Several recurring themes, motifs, and symbols are used by Wiesel to show the beliefs and ultimate moral decline that enveloped the minds of many Jewish survivors.
In reaction to the book Night by Elie Wiesel I can truly say that I am shocked and appalled by the fact that the Nazi guards got away with committing such atrocities to their Jewish prisoners such as what they did in this book. In the book the Nazi guards dehumanized their Jewish prisoners by both taking away their rights as human beings, and by treating them like animals.
In the book Elie Wiesel writes on pag 24, "There are 80 of you in the car, the German officer added, if any one of you goes missing, you will all be shot like dogs." In this quote Elie Wiesel shows just how ruthless the Germans could be in their task of deporting the Jews, it also shows just how cruel the Germans were to their prisoners, they packed them into cattle cars 80 at a time and referred to them as "dogs". In referring to the Jews as dogs the Germans dehumaized the Jews by not treating them as human, but as animals.
Another passage where we see dehumanization was when on page 37 Elie Wiesel writes on how the first concentration camp changed the prisoners, "In a few seconds, we had ceased to …show more content…
In Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night, Wiesel estranges himself from his companions and morals to survive the Holocaust. It is expected that the Holocaust survivors would lose faith in God, their determination to go on living, and their reliance in others because of the horrific experiences that they faced day to day. It is understandable that a Holocaust survivor questions his faith in God when Jews are chanting the prayer of death for themselves. A person would question living when he sees the demise of loved ones and fellow Jews right before his
In reaction to the book Night by Elie Wiesel I can truly say that I am shocked and appalled by the fact that the Nazi guards got away with committing such atrocities to their Jewish prisoners such as what they did in this book. In the book the Nazi guards dehumanized their Jewish prisoners by both taking away their rights as human beings, and by treating them like animals.
In the book Elie Wiesel writes on pag 24, "There are 80 of you in the car, the German officer added, if any one of you goes missing, you will all be shot like dogs." In this quote Elie Wiesel shows just how ruthless the Germans could be in their task of deporting the Jews, it also shows just how cruel the Germans were to their prisoners, they packed them into cattle cars 80 at a time and referred to them as "dogs". In referring to the Jews as dogs the Germans dehumaized the Jews by not treating them as human, but as animals.
Another passage where we see dehumanization was when on page 37 Elie Wiesel writes on how the first concentration camp changed the prisoners, "In a few seconds, we had ceased to …show more content…
In Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night, Wiesel estranges himself from his companions and morals to survive the Holocaust. It is expected that the Holocaust survivors would lose faith in God, their determination to go on living, and their reliance in others because of the horrific experiences that they faced day to day. It is understandable that a Holocaust survivor questions his faith in God when Jews are chanting the prayer of death for themselves. A person would question living when he sees the demise of loved ones and fellow Jews right before his