Theme Of Dehumanization In Night
Elie Wiesel once said “ We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented”. In Elie Wiesel’s novel Night a tragic theme is occurring throughout the book. Throughout the novel examples of dehumanization occur when Elie and his family are in the cattle car and told that “If anyone goes missing you all will be shot like dogs”. “Throw out all the dead! All the corpses outside!... Here is one! Take him! They undressed him, the survivors avidly sharing out his clothes, then to “gravediggers” took him, one by the head and one by the feet, and threw him out the wagon like a sack of flour”. “There no longer was any distinction between rich and poor, notables and the others;
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The thousands of people who died daily in Auschwitz and Birkenau, in the crematoria, no longer troubled me”. The death and dying did not affect the Jews, because that was all around them. The many children and mothers were sent to the crematoria to be killed they were sent in alive. “I watched other hangings. I never saw a single victim weep. These withered bodies had long forgotten the bitter taste of tears”. The people that did not obey we hanged or flogged in front of the camp for everyone to see. The hanging was torture to watch, but they desensitized to the death of one another. “All the block inmates stood naked between the rows of bunks. This must be how one stands for the Last Judgement”. The inmates were open to being taken by death. The last day could not come soon enough for some of the inmates. “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name”. A-7713 or A-7714 were not just numbers to the Jews they were who they were to be called. They numbers were not written on the body they were tattooed. The tattoo is not just on the body but in their horrific memories. Dehumanization is not right to do to people. People have feelings along with the many Jews that were in the concentration camps. Elie Wiesel is one of those many Jews that were in Auschwitz. He was dehumanized be the Germans. He was given a number for his name instead of Elie
The thousands of people who died daily in Auschwitz and Birkenau, in the crematoria, no longer troubled me”. The death and dying did not affect the Jews, because that was all around them. The many children and mothers were sent to the crematoria to be killed they were sent in alive. “I watched other hangings. I never saw a single victim weep. These withered bodies had long forgotten the bitter taste of tears”. The people that did not obey we hanged or flogged in front of the camp for everyone to see. The hanging was torture to watch, but they desensitized to the death of one another. “All the block inmates stood naked between the rows of bunks. This must be how one stands for the Last Judgement”. The inmates were open to being taken by death. The last day could not come soon enough for some of the inmates. “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name”. A-7713 or A-7714 were not just numbers to the Jews they were who they were to be called. They numbers were not written on the body they were tattooed. The tattoo is not just on the body but in their horrific memories. Dehumanization is not right to do to people. People have feelings along with the many Jews that were in the concentration camps. Elie Wiesel is one of those many Jews that were in Auschwitz. He was dehumanized be the Germans. He was given a number for his name instead of Elie