The Night Rhetorical Analysis

While reading the next 22 pages, nothing in particular jumped out at me as really shocking. I do admit that there were some memories in these pages that made me cringe at the thought it, but I knew some of the information that Nyiszli wrote. However, the biggest thing I cringed at was when he was talking about the French and Greek doctors that were captured by the KZ. These doctors were so inexperienced that it took them 6-7 time for them to get a lumbar tap correctly performed. Patients either experienced extreme agony, because that needle goes deep, or they were paralyzed and directly sent to the gas chamber. However, this is not the worst of it, and I am outraged that doctors could do this and not feel empathy. I felt kind of happy for Nyiszli because of his new position. As a lucky one, he was forced to do forensics on the bodies that were delivered to him. At the same time, is he truly lucky? He could have went to the camp with his wife and daughter. They would be separated, or he could have just been sent to the gas chamber. In most respects, to be sent to Auschwitz was not lucky at all. However, at least he will be feed well and clean with his new job. Although he believed at this time that he would not last long with this job,
he had it pretty easy compared to the others in the camp. I am certain he has survivor's guilt over this. He wrote this book just to compensate for those who have died in the camp or do not want to talk about their experiences. As for the discovery he made, I find what Mengele did was pretty messed up. Nyiszli could end up with the body of his wife, daughter, sister, or parents at any time. I felt uneasy as he made this revelation. I found it interesting that Mengele kept young French and Greek doctors under his control at the camp. The lived at the camp in separate quarters, but they ate the poor food the other were forced to eat. In return, they were basically given free, hands-on experience with patients. This sounds awful since these doctors were allowed to do whatever to the camp’s prisoners. However, there was lack of medical equipment and medicine that was there at Auschwitz. I was taken aback by this because Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp. I thought they would at least be decently funded. A part of me is actually kind of outraged that a hospital that might money does not do much to help its patients. Although, I do realize that this is a extermination camp, but a doctor’s job is to help the sick and wounded. These doctors are not Nazis, but they lack empathy for humans like the Nazis. They can do whatever they please to prisoners of the camp, and get away with it, and They do not want to keep patients alive if they have the ability to just kill them. I wonder if Nyiszli will talk more about these doctors of if he will befriend some of them. As of now, they are complete strangers. I am uneasy by Mengele.
It is obvious that this man is evil, but he only has shown up twice in the book. He usually leaves to direct the incoming trains. He is a busy man it seems like, but nothing has been said about his medical practices, which leaves me on edge. He is infamous for his monstrosities, but all Nyiszli has said is that Mengele took him out of the group just so he could be a forensic surgeon. While that is generous in some respects, it is not the heartless Mengele that comes to mind. I am not sure if I will see this side of Mengele again when he appears. I am sure Nyiszli will go into more detail about Mengele’s work in the near future, but for now I am left in the dark with the horrors that go on in his exam
rooms. Although the author has it better than most, I cannot help myself for feeling sympathy for him. After all, he never chose to be ripped away from his practice, have his family destroyed, and have decades of emotional wounds from this experience. He does not deserve seeing his neighbors and family lying on his table. This man is very brave for taking this from a political system that does not even think of him as an individual.