The Deaf Brutality In Elie Wiesel's Night

The Deaf Brutality Human rights are our natural born acts, something we know that we have as a person. This is what the articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights define. Even though it is our freedom, many of the actions in the memoir “Night”, a book about Elie Wiesel’s experiences at different concentration camps, violated these liberties. Article 3, 5 and 9 are infringed in this book of terrors. Certainly, Article 3 states that, “You have the right to live, to be free, and to feel safe.” Nevertheless, the book “Night” wasn’t following this at all. According to the book in chapter 2, page 33, Wiesel wrote, “”There are eighty of you in the wagon,” added the German officer, “If anyone is missing, you’ll all
be shot, like dogs…” “These words were spoken as the Hungarian lieutenants collect the last possessions of the miserable ones in the wagon, for they were forced to go to a concentration camp. Unquestionably, these people had no freedom whatsoever.
Also, if they had the right to live, in this case if anyone escapes, they’d get shot. Not only that, Wiesel said that when his father was sick, he heard “the doctor shouting at them that they were lazy good-for-nothing who only wanted to stay in bed.” The last cure for these patients gave up on them, and so did their last chance of survival. This shows unfair treatments, and no rights were shown. At this level, Article 5 was also broken in this memoir. It stated that, “Nobody has the right to torture, harm, or humiliate you.” However, the actions of the SS officers and the head of the blocks in the concentration camp aren’t corresponding to this authority. In chapter 3, when Wiesel got in Idek’s way, he got beat up. He describes, “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.” Wiesel was aching all over, and such pain for a fourteen year old kid is unacceptable. You can’t just let your anger out on someone, especially if they respect you a ton. Physically abusing a person could lead to death and even though this book was published in
the year of 1960, this brutality still happens to this day. Moreover, the author mentioned in chapter 5 that while they marched in the cold, “…everyone took out his spoon and accumulated snow off his neighbor’s back…The SS who were watching laughed at this spectacle.” If you think about it, it is pure cruelty. Looking at people struggling to survive and humiliate them? Wiesel was right; there was no God at all. In this situation, Article 9 was also violated. Defined itself as, “Nobody has the right to arrest you, put you in prison or to force you out of your country without good reasons.” Yet, the policemen’s actions don’t seem to agree with this privilege. For example, in paragraph 6 on page 28, as Elie’s family and the rest of Sighet were being expelled, “the police were striking out with their truncheons.” They took over Sighet, and simply remove the people since they’re Jewish. This definitely isn’t a fair reason: religious freedom should be able to roar smoothly. Also, the author mentioned that,” The SS pushed us in, a hundred to a carriage… We were given no food. We lived on snow.” These details emphasize the struggles and how terrible they were being treated. Not only they were forced to get on the wagon, they also were being handled like garbage. In such a living hell, hatred isn’t necessary. Such deaf brutality was running around in the book Night, and the policemen such as Article3, 5, and 9 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights couldn’t stop these criminals. Sometimes you can’t do anything but sit there and watch, but if you can speak up, please do, because nobody deserves what Elie went through.