Night Essay David Shraga
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Night Essay
“One of the legacies of the Holocaust is the sheer scale of one group of people's inhumanity towards other groups of people. In the case of the Jews, the German government and German society attempts to redefine them as sub-human, and then as creatures who deserve to die. In Night, Elie Wiesel describes how dreadful and maniacal their experience of the Holocaust became in their point of view. The book also looks at what it is like for an adolescent to live in a situation where he and those around him are no longer treated as humans. The loss of humanity among the victims leads to all kinds of cruelty and callousness among the prisoners as they struggle to survive and leads them to lose faith in their god, and, at least for Elie, to become closer to his father more than in the past.”
For the most part of Elie’s vile experiences, he struggles with the inhumane behaviors the Germans respond towards the Jews. Elie and the Jews are sent to ghettos and concentration camps, but they become so used to their atmospheres, they question about humanity: “Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible, even these crematories.”(38). We signify that the Nazis mold into every Jew that living or existing does not matter so much for them anymore. More so, the speaker exemplifies that “ we were given no food. We lived on snow; it took the place of bread. The days were like nights, and the nights left the dregs of their darkness in our souls.”(100). The narrator substantiates to the reader that the Germans show their atrocious morals by making them live off of the snow. The Germans even pile them on cattle cargo, letting more than the majority die sooner in the winter. The
(Page 2) pile them on cattle cargo, letting more than the majority die sooner in the winter. The mindboggling habits the Germans perform in the book indicates their lack of humanity to the Jewish people and even to
Night Essay
“One of the legacies of the Holocaust is the sheer scale of one group of people's inhumanity towards other groups of people. In the case of the Jews, the German government and German society attempts to redefine them as sub-human, and then as creatures who deserve to die. In Night, Elie Wiesel describes how dreadful and maniacal their experience of the Holocaust became in their point of view. The book also looks at what it is like for an adolescent to live in a situation where he and those around him are no longer treated as humans. The loss of humanity among the victims leads to all kinds of cruelty and callousness among the prisoners as they struggle to survive and leads them to lose faith in their god, and, at least for Elie, to become closer to his father more than in the past.”
For the most part of Elie’s vile experiences, he struggles with the inhumane behaviors the Germans respond towards the Jews. Elie and the Jews are sent to ghettos and concentration camps, but they become so used to their atmospheres, they question about humanity: “Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible, even these crematories.”(38). We signify that the Nazis mold into every Jew that living or existing does not matter so much for them anymore. More so, the speaker exemplifies that “ we were given no food. We lived on snow; it took the place of bread. The days were like nights, and the nights left the dregs of their darkness in our souls.”(100). The narrator substantiates to the reader that the Germans show their atrocious morals by making them live off of the snow. The Germans even pile them on cattle cargo, letting more than the majority die sooner in the winter. The
(Page 2) pile them on cattle cargo, letting more than the majority die sooner in the winter. The mindboggling habits the Germans perform in the book indicates their lack of humanity to the Jewish people and even to