What Is The Theme Of Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

Eliezer and other Jewish people live on the town of sighet, Moishe one of the townspeople warn everybody about the nazis and no one listens, one the jewish are captured, most are killed and tortured. Eliezer and his dad goes through each camps as they experience new ways of how the Nazis dehumanize the jewish people. Wiesel engages readers’ emotions with powerful unforgettable moments in order to achieve his purpose. Wesiel wants to help readers come to a greater understanding of the Holocaust and make them think about how Dehumanization is shown across the story.

In the memoir Night, the author Elie Wiesel wrote the memoir to show that in tough times, people only think about themselves, thus creating a Dehumanization. In this scene, Eliezer sees the babies being thrown into the crematorium. “ A truck driver close and unloaded it's hold: small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes. . . Children thrown into the flames” (P32). Elie Wiesel uses this scene shows Dehumanization, because the Nazis didn't care if they are babies because they are useless to them, they only keep the Jewish that can work for them.

Elie Wiesel shows dehumanization by showing that people can manipulate others into doing whatever they want. A worker threw bread into
Eliezer’s father i about to die and Eliezer's regrets meeting with him during the beginning of the cam “If only I didn't find him! If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could use all my strength to fight for my own survival, to take care only of myself…Instantly, I felt ashamed, ashamed of myself forever” Elie Wiesel uses this scene to dehumanization by showing eliezer not caring about anyone else anymore either than himself compared in the beginning when he was cherishing everyone he had lost, in the end of the memoir Eliezer's describes how his dad became a burden to