Essay On Inhumanity
“There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.” An intellectual man, Alan Paton, once gave the world that beautiful quote. The world is often so cruel in many actions, but people often do find a way to overcome the tragedies suffered every century. The process of overcoming a terrible action can truly take some special powers, and there are only two novels that can relate to overcoming strong struggles. The books Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, and Night by Elie Wiesel have truly shown how hard life can be sometimes, but also how things can be overcome. Throughout the books men, Morrie and Elie, have to overcome some of the hardest struggles
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Inhumanity is the sole thing that keeps the world striving to become a better place each day. Morrie faced his fair share of inhumanity, from being the happiest and most peaceful man but getting cancer. Something like cancer is certainly never fair to anyone, but especially not to a man as great as Morrie. He often kept strong but so many things were tearing him down each day with his sickness. It was truly hard to keep going along each day and fight this illness, but Morrie stayed strong. Something that was completely different was the way that Elie had to deal with inhumanity though. Elie Wiesel had to go through one of the most terrible and inhumane things to ever take place on this Earth, the Holocaust. There has never been something that showed such terror and inhumanity like the Holocaust. “Elie comes back from getting some bread, and realizes his father is weeping like an infant. Elie proceeds to talk to his father and hears that some men are beating him because he can not go anywhere to use the bathroom and stinks. Elie tries to reason with the men that are beating his father, but realizes that even some decent men that have to go through something as bad as the Holocaust will show their inhumanity” (Wiesel 109). The inhumanity in both books are extremely different, but show that inhumanity exists
Inhumanity is the sole thing that keeps the world striving to become a better place each day. Morrie faced his fair share of inhumanity, from being the happiest and most peaceful man but getting cancer. Something like cancer is certainly never fair to anyone, but especially not to a man as great as Morrie. He often kept strong but so many things were tearing him down each day with his sickness. It was truly hard to keep going along each day and fight this illness, but Morrie stayed strong. Something that was completely different was the way that Elie had to deal with inhumanity though. Elie Wiesel had to go through one of the most terrible and inhumane things to ever take place on this Earth, the Holocaust. There has never been something that showed such terror and inhumanity like the Holocaust. “Elie comes back from getting some bread, and realizes his father is weeping like an infant. Elie proceeds to talk to his father and hears that some men are beating him because he can not go anywhere to use the bathroom and stinks. Elie tries to reason with the men that are beating his father, but realizes that even some decent men that have to go through something as bad as the Holocaust will show their inhumanity” (Wiesel 109). The inhumanity in both books are extremely different, but show that inhumanity exists