Examples Of Dehumanization In Night Wiesel

In today's society many people are still being dehumanized and alienated. Dehumanization is making others feel worthless and seeing them as something other than human because of their religion, race, or gender and Alienation means isolation people from activities. Researchers say that the attitude of people reflects on dehumanization, they feel worthless and begin to hurt themselves and do things they should not be doing. The three text all have a similar meaning, animals. In Night,Wiesel uses animals to explain how they were being treated and so that the reader can use imagery and understand the text better, In Maus, Spiegelman’s book is like a comic which uses pictures and he uses mice to represent the Jews and Cats to represent the Germans,

and in “The Metamorphosis”, Kafka uses a cockroach to show alienation because no one likes cockroaches and would not want to be close to one.
In Night, the whole book shows dehumanization and how they were being alienated because the Germans hated the Jews and because of that Germans treated the Jews horribly. In Night, Wiesel explains that the Germans tretaed them as if they dogs.As the Jews were being taken to the concentartion camp they were thretened by the Germans “If anyone goes missing, you will all be shot, like dogs.” (Wiesel, 24). The Germans said that if anyone tried to escape everyone would be blamed for and shot like dogs.Wiesel shows how the Germans acted towards the Jews and how Germans saw Jews as dogs.Jews never stayed at one concentration camp for long, they always moved to a different concentration camp after a while. This time they were moving to somewhere in deepest Germany. To get there they had to go through a death march, which is a march that you have to run and if you slow down or stop running they shoot you right on the spot. The Jews were running during an icy wind that was blowing violently with the SS officers watching their every move, “Faster, you filthy dogs!” (Wiesel,84). The Germans tried to remind the Jews that they were worthless by calling them something they are not. At the concentration camps they did not give them a lot to eat and if they did they gave him a little bit and it was always soup and bread.The Jews were traveling to a concentration camp and had not ate in days, they passed through a German town, “A worker took a piece of bread and threw it into the wagon, Dozens of men fought desperately over a few crumbs. the worker watched with great interest.”(Wiesel,100). This shows how the Jews were seen as dogs, because just like dogs would do, they would go get the food someone throws the. The Germans were very cruel to the Jews and separated many families. They traumatized many and dehumanized the Jews, they did not include them into things the Germans would do for being “different”.
Maus was a comic, which means it had visual pictures.

In Maus, Spiegelman shows how jews were being dehumanized by using mice to represent the Jews and cats to represent the Germans.Cats hunt and attack mice just like Germans killed and attacked many Jews. Like in Night, Spiegelman father went through the same thing, the Germans took Jews to Auschwitz, they took mostly kids some only two or three years old, “ The kids would scream and scream, so the Germans would swing them by the legs against a wall and they never screamed again.” (Spiegelman, 108). The Germans did not care if the Jew was a child they would still hurt them. The Jews would hide from Germans so they would not be taken away, “ A tunnel made from shoes! be prepared on a moments notice, everything was ready here so 15 or 16 people could hide.” (Spiegelman, 121).Just like mice hide to not get killed so did the Jews, they would hide from the Germans so they would not get hurt or killed. The Germans treated the Jews horribly, “ We knew the stories- they will gas us and throw us in the ovens.This was late 1944… we knew everything. And here we were.” (Spiegelman, 157) The Jews were scared because of all the bad stories they heard from others and their experience. The mice were not accepted by the Germans, they did not like them which is why the were seen as

animals.