The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights In Night, By Elie Wiesel

By definition, something that is fundamental is basic, essential, and involving all aspects of the subject at hand. Seeing that the preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that there should be a universal respect for and observance of the inalienable human rights and fundamental freedoms set forth in it, who could deny a human these things? ‘Human’, in this instance, is used as an adjective to describe the rights, which are of and belonging to all members of the human race; regardless of race, religion, color, gender, or social status. In the memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel, he tells of his life as a young Jewish boy, and of the horrors he, his family, and others faced due to the stripping away of their rights by those
In the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it says that everyone should be endowed with equal rights and treated in the spirit of brotherhood. Tom was the receptionist of neither of these things. He was charged with the capital crime of rape because his skin color was what determined his reputability in the racist eyes of the jury. While in court, Tom Robinson was on the recieving end of sneers and racial jeers. This racial injustice is disrespectful and not in the spirit of brotherhood. If all people are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law, as stated in the seventh article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, how can any human being be denied of this? In Night, Elie Wiesel, as well as the rest of the Jewish community, was subject to inhumane, cruel treatment and poor living conditions by the Nazis. They asserted power through numbers and this resulted in the Jews having the lesser hand. The law, which should demand that all people are equal and entitled to protection, should have protected them from the punishments that they were given. They were deprived of sufficient food and
Victims of the Holocaust, such as Elie Wiesel, were not protected under the law; they were treated with brute force. Gestapo and SS officers would beat and even kill them; the sole reason for what they did was simply that they could. This act shows that they did not respect the rights of the Jewish people because they were treated with lack of regard to their safety and/or well-being. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson was not seen as an equal, nor was he treated without discrimination in the eyes of the law. He, as a black man, was seen as less than those who were white. Boo Radley was never charged with a crime, nor was he killed, but he was treated as an outsider. He was locked away in his house by his father for fifteen years for no real reason. Boo Radley’s father, many years later, filled a tree’s knothole with cement to prohibit Boo from putting objects inside for Jem and Scout to discover. Acts such as these, though they hold no criminal cognizance, caused Boo Radley to be treated as a prisoner inside his own home. No one within the law did anything to help him, and he was treated differently because of who his father