Man vs. Man is one of the many conflicts in the book “Night” written by the late Elie Wiesel. Wiesel expresses that it was him against the Nazi soldiers for they were ordered to beat the Jews and often times kill them. They were forced out of their homes and, “the Hungarian Police made them climb into the [cattle] cars, eighty persons in each one” (22). After going through many mentally damaging experiences, the Jews soon began to turn on each other. During transport, bystanders threw a piece of bread at the passing men, and an old man managed to snatch it. Everyone, including his son, jumped on him “when they withdrew, there were two dead bodies next to [Wiesel], the father and the son” (102). Later when Wiesel’s father was dying of dysentery,…
Hitler was inhumane, so were many people of that time. Some people had more faith in Hitler then God. Since they lived in horrible conditions and treated as bad as there living conditions many Jews wanted to die. They felt like there god wouldn’t protect them or save them from the reality they know live in so many Jews lost their faith in their God. In the book, Night by Elie Wiesel he shows how being treated inhumanely had caused him and many others like him to lose his faith in God during the Holocaust.…
The book Night by Elie Wiesel, is about the journey a teenage boy name Elie. Elie wrote this book about how he survived the holocaust. From the beginning we know he survived long enough to tell the stories about the terrible things man has put other man through. Elie changes a lot throughout the book. His religion, family, and his perspective on life changes drastically.…
The Holocaust is perhaps one of the most gruesome events that has ever taken place. Adolf Hitler was the mastermind behind the systematic, bureaucratic, and barbaric persecution that murdered six million Jews for no reason. When he became leader he had only one mission and that was to have an exceptional race and he would do everything to achieve it. The Nazis who came into power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were racially superior and that the Jews were inferior and posed as a threat to the German community. Adolf and his “loyal” followers managed to instill fear in many Jews causing many to flee to safer havens. Other that weren’t as lucky fell into the hands of that Nazi regime. Those Jews that were persecuted and captured…
Alternatively, in our modern day world some people still keep their thoughts to themselves and are afraid to speak for other people. Just like in the book Night, Elie was concerned about the other Jews being taken to extermination camps, however his father told him not to worry about it because it wasn’t them being taken and they lived in denial that anything as unpleasant of what was reality was happening to the Jews and the same would happen to them. Until Elie and his family were captured, he continued to believe what his father said by not taking a stand and defending other people for what is right. Unfortunately, the same type of events still take place, whether it’s a dictatorship in another country, to something such as bullying. For…
During world war II, the people known as, Jews, were targeted for deportation to concentration camps and execution. The term, “Inhumanity” was expressed in many different ways during this period of time. Inhumanity can scar people emotionally and mentally. Inhumane people tend to act very cruel towards other people, animals, and the environment. In the story, “Night” by Elie Wiesel, there were many merciless examples of how inhumanity was shown during World War II.…
In “Night” written by Elie Wiesel, Elie struggles with his faith. In the beginning of the book Elie’s faith is pure. When Elie was asked why he prays to god, he responded with, “Why did I pray?... Why did I live? Why did I breathe?”(Wiesel 4) Elie’s faith was unbreakable. His faith was so strong as a result of being in a Jewish family and being taught to pray and study Judaism daily. However his faith was put to the test during the Holocaust. Elie starts to doubt his faith by witnessing the amount of cruelty and evil while in the concentration camps. Elie wonders how a god could let such disgusting and cruel actions take place. He is also disgusted by the selfishness and cruelty he sees amongst his prisoners. Elie describes a scenario…
In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the protagonist Eliezer enters a spiritual struggle to maintain faith, not only in God but in humanity. Turned upside down, his world no longer makes sense. He becomes disillusioned through his experience of Nazi cruelty, but even more so by the inexplicable cruelty that fellow prisoners inflict upon each other. Eliezer is appalled by the human depth of depravity and capacity for evil, his own included. Within the story there seems to be an emphasis on how inhumanity begets inhumanity. Seeing the Jews as inhuman, the Nazis cruelly treat them as animals, in turn producing cruel and animalistic behavior among the prisoners.…
Throughout the autobiography Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie tells us what it is like to be a Jew in the Holocaust. As a 15 year old boy Elie sees more awful things during the course of the different camps in Europe that we will see in our lifetime. Elie’s relationship with humanity changes from frustrated to no longer having any humanity left as he journeys from Sighet to freedom.…
Elie heard this quote from a “French” women after his first beating from Idek. The French women was encouraging to survive and keep faith, so that one day Elie would be able to speak up for the Jews. When the quote states, “Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now.” displays the silence that Jews had to live through to survive the camps. The quote conveys the theme of dehumanization because in order to survive the camps the Jews were forced to internalize everything they felt or risk being killed. Another theme conveyed was human morality, the women’s compassion and kindness towards Elie showed that even in times of extreme distress human kindness will prevail. Upon reading the quote, I knew that…
Elie Wiesel’s novel, The Night,describes Eliezer’s journey of being part of the Holocaust. Through the novel, he faced many hardships and had to try and survive through the whole book. This was the reason he used, The Night, as the title of the book because the title conveys the deep darkness he went through at the camps. The night symbolizes the darkness that was mental, emotional, physical and spiritual. Eliezer faced many tough times and chose the title, The Night, for a reason.…
Dehumanization- to deprive of human qualities or attributes. The Holocaust was a dark time, where a man named, Adolf Hitler, who hated anyone who in his eyes who were not perfect, like Gypsies, the disabled, and especially anyone who was Jewish. The people who Hitler hated were taken to places called concentration camp where they would almost certainly meet their demise unless they were rescued by the Americans or the Soviets. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel explains, and illustrates his struggles in the infamous, Auschwitz, which was the most inferior concentration camp. The Holocaust was a terrible time for mankind, the Jews, and the people who Hitler did not see as “perfect.” People were taken to concentration camps, and dehumanized until they became beasts of burden without rights or belongings.…
The Holocaust is the most horrifying crime against humanity of all time. Hitler, in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, decided that all mentally ill, gypsies, non-supporters of Nazism, and Jews were to be eliminated from the German population. He proceeded to reach his goal in a systematic scheme. One of his main methods of "doing away" with these "undesirables" was through the use of concentration camps. In January 1941, in a meeting with his top officials, the 'final solution' was decided (The Holocaust: Buchenwald). The Jewish population was to be eliminated. The people that were sent to concentration camps such as Buchenwald were treated horribly and it is unimaginable what they had to go through while they were there.…
The ground is frozen, parents weep over their children, stomachs void, rigid bodies huddle together to stay warm. This was a reoccurring scene during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel’s Night describes the horror of what the Holocaust did, not only to the Jews, but to humanity. The disturbing neglect the Nazi party had for human beings, and the human body itself, still to this day, intensifies the fear in the hearts of many. Men, woman, and children alike witnessed selfish, dehumanizing acts, the deaths of their friends and family, and not only the loss of faith in God, but in everything.…
Imagine yourself being trapped in a small metal box that gradually constricts your body. It squeezes you until your very being caves in and you breathe one’s last. This is how isolation in concentration camps transforms your tranquil soul into a raving madman. Night, a memoir by holocaust survivor and professor, Elie Wiesel, paints the horrors of isolation and how its knives will carve away your flesh and hope until there’s nothing but a vile corpse. In order to avoid the assured effects of this ‘solitary confinement’ in the concentration camps, having loved ones were beneficial because they needed one another to talk to, keep each other strong, and predominantly to keep each other sane.…