Night: The Peak of Inhumanity
Throughout history man has been cruel to man in many ways. Although there has been not many more cruel than the treatment of the Jews in Germany and Europe during the Nazi rule and throughout the Second World War. Many of the ways they were treated is more akin to the treatment of animals in a farm being raised for the slaughter, or of the way that slaves were treated around the world. The way the Germans treated the Jews is detestable, and the way the Jews and prisoners treated each other during such times of strife were equally detestable. Since the Holocaust there have been many more genocides with some even exceeding the death count of the Holocaust, but none have been more impactful on modern society as the
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“One day when Idek was seized with one of his fits of frenzy, I got in his way. He leapt on me, like a wild animal, hitting me in the chest, on the head, throwing me down and pulling me up again, his blows growing more and more violent, until I was covered with blood.” (Wisel 60) Idek is a Kapo, a prisoner who is appointed by the Nazis to keep the others in line, who is prone to fits of rage. In Night, Elie accidentally gets into Ideks way; Idek then proceeds to beat Elie senselessly until he is covered in his own blood. The way Idek treats Elie and the other prisoners is that of kicking a chair for no discernable reason. His treatment of the prisoners goes to show how little he thinks they are human and how the Nazis give him unchecked power. Power that he is able to abuse to his will and use however he pleases against the poor disheveled …show more content…
“No. I wasn’t asleep. They jumped on top of me. They snatched my bread… and they hit me… again… I can’t stand any more, son… a drop of water….” (114)The other prisoners beat Elie's father, for he is sick and dying. While beating him they take what rations of bread he has. This is because they feel that need his ration more than he does. They also feel that since he is sick he probably will not stick around much longer in the camp. This makes the beating ever more cruel and brutal as they are killing him faster in the process, as each blow weakens him and makes him feel even
In chapter eight of Night, Elie’s father, Shlomo, struggled with inhuman treatment more than once. He became ill and was unable to control where and when he relieved himself. Shlomo had gotten dysentery from drinking the polluted water. The other sick prisoners he was housing with were so displeased, they beat him. “Eliezer… Eliezer… tell them not to beat me… I haven’t done anything… Why are the beating me?”
Dehumanizing the Jews There are many survivors that would describe their experience in camps as hell. They were treated quite badly. In the book Elie says that he no longer felt human, he meant that his dignity and sense of humanity had been stripped from him and things such as barbaric behavior, lack of clothing, and severe punishments caused this. Weisel was in a time where people weren’t themselves anymore, they were brainwashed servants.
This violence and inhumane punishment clearly demonstrates how the men were turned into animals, being whipped just as a farmer would whip his cattle. Any punishment whatsoever was unnecessary to start with, as Elie simply walks in by accident on a Kapo sleeping with a girl. However, because the Nazis are attempting to turn the prisoners into animals, Elie is not allowed any benevolence or mercy, and is publicly whipped to the point of fainting. This is a clear demonstration of how the Nazis utilize physical abuse to dehumanize prisoners like Elie and his father. Moreover, Ellen Fine describes how during the time that Elie is witnessing his father being beaten, “rage against the aggressor has been displaced onto the victim, and concern for
They treat inmates like tools to survive and nothing more. Additionally, it is not only the Nazis that dehumanize the Jews, so did the people of Germany. On the train trip to Buchenwald, German workers stop to throw bread into the the cart, as the
He steps forward and they push a crate over to him. One of the officers exclaims, “ Lie down on it! On your belly!” Elie obeyed as he should. He no longer felt anything but the lashes of the whip hitting him over and over again.
“ I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when I cannot feel it. I believe in God even when he is silent. Believing in the Holocaust is a sign of strength. If they were not believing it wasn’t gonna make the pain and struggle easier.
In Night. People in concentration camps tried to protect each other but struggled very hard to do so. Sometimes, they barely had a chance to begin with. For example, Elie witnessed someone kill himself because they already committed all he had left to taking care of a family member and was stuck. “A terrible thought crossed my mind: What if he had wanted to be rid of his father?
In the novel Night, Idek shows evil in every way. Idek beats on Eli’s father countless times once to try to get Eli’s gold crown from his mouth. When he wasn’t beating on one of the prisoners he was taking advantage of a young girl at the camp. We see no sign of family in Idek’s life but plenty of evil outbreaks. Even though Idek is also Jewish just like all the other members of the camps and he too treats the prisoners like the German officers would or even worse.
What can we learn about human nature from the book Night? Human nature is the general psychological characteristics, feelings, and qualities of humankind which determines human behavior and motivation. We can learn that there is a lot of examples of human nature in the book Night like losing hope during desperate times, doing anything for food and going to the extreme for pleasure and sex. Night shows us that human nature will lose hope during desperate times, that they will just give up when they're in pain. For example in Night on page 105 second paragraph, it states “I can't anymore . . .
In chapters 4 to 6 in the novel, “Night”, Elie Wiesel and his father continue to suffer in the grasp of the Germans. Eventually, all the Jews are moved to a new work camp, Buna, where they are overworked and undernourished, and resort to killing each other for pieces of bread. In his old home, Elie had never experienced brutality and inhumanity within it. Now, Elie and other Jews witness extreme violence and an absence of mercy that begins to erode their mental state; bringing most men to animalistic tendencies. In chapter 4, the Jews arrive in Buna.
Inhumanity and Cruelty in Night Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany, conducted a genocide known as the Holocaust during World War II that was intended to exterminate the Jewish population. The Holocaust was responsible for the death of about 6 million Jews. Night is a nonfiction novel written by Eliezer Wiesel about his experience during the Holocaust. Many events in the novel convey a theme of “man’s inhumanity to man”. The prisoners of the concentration camps are constantly tortured and neglected by the German officers who run the camps.
While their dads were telling them not to. During that Elie wanted to help his father to march and not be mocked at or beaten up. The other inmates started to laugh and Elie distinctly remembered “My father had never served in the military and could not march in step. That presented Franek with the opportunity to torment him and, on a daily basis, to thrash him savagely….But my father did not make sufficient progress, and the blows continued to rain on him”(55).The germans was beating up Elie’s dad.
Long Hours Of Darkness That dehumanization his like abusing someone to take away somebody's freedom as it how it was back then slavery the whites was treating the black like animals. In the book of night there is like groups of people that's fighting for freedom it's like dehumanization. What i read was the book called “Night” by Elie Wiesel
Imagine knowing your fate ahead of time. That single moment would be stuck in your head, replayed every second to prevent it. This would obstruct your feeling of morals, making you only focus on your own survival. Nothing would get in your way of trying to survive. During the Holocaust, many people were faced with this moment when they stepped in a concentration camp.
Suffering not only forces people to make inhumane decisions but it also causes people to lose hope and give up on themselves. In this section of the book, Elie describes a time where he was devastated to see his father beaten and hurt in the camps. Throughout his time in the camps, Elie saw and heard the abuse that was given to people in the camp killing his hope. The biggest turning point in the story was when he saw his father getting beat. When Idek “began beating [Elie’s father] with an iron bar … [Elie’s] father simply doubled over under the blows, but then [Elie's father] seemed to break in two like an old tree struck by lightning”