Inhumanity In Night By Elie Wiesel

As stated by Alan Paton “There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.” there is much that can be said about inhumanity and humanity together and apart from one another. In these two novels there are great explanations of both humanity and what it is and the inhumanity shown to others. The first novel is Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, and the other is Night by Elie Wiesel. Both show how man is to man and how people should be treated and how they are not treated as they should be at times. They both have their each standing views on humanity and inhumanity that are similar and think that differ between them. The things they see and experience

are what accumulate these view and compile their side on the matters. So take a look and see how the world is putting the “in” in inhumanity.
To start one must look at the novel Tuesdays with Morrie this writing focuses more on humanity and how we should treat one another. This novel greatly shows how to as stated above, exemplify man’s humanity to man. Throughout Morrie's life he talks on how death is just apart of life and we must remember what we did in life and how we treated others. This is all apart of humanity and treating every person as a human and respecting them as such. This is where he compiles his meaning of life and it is as simple as this people are going around doing what they think is important, he says that people must simply devote themselves to others and to helping and loving others, and that is what is important (Albom 43). The love and compassion that we must show others is the perfect example of how man's humanity to one another should be, and Morrie sees this and understands. His ultimate goal is for everyone to see how important relationships and treating others in the right way is to the sucessfulness of society. Now to take a turn to how inhumanity can corrupt societies thinking of one another one must think of death and what is all like in the end. Morrie has a great explanation for this too he states that “Maybe death is the greatest equalizer, the only big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another” (Albom 51). One could translate this to mean many things but on the topic of inhumanity it can and should be seen as what man’s humanity, or inhumanity, to man can decide. If people spend their entire life being inhuman and tearing others down for no reason at all it isn't going to matter one bit; because, in the end they are all going to die and that mistreatment of others is not going to get them anywhere because everyone is equal and in the same standing when they die. Not everyone sees this in the light that Morrie saw it in the inhumanity that man treats each other with spreads and it is seen in the next piece of writing.
Next take a look at the novel Night, and see how is perfect example of man’s inhumanity to man is shown.

In the writing one is taken through Elie Wiesel's journey as a Jew in the Holocaust; which, is one of the greatest platforms to inhumanity there has ever been. There are many aspect of the Holocaust that are incomprehensible, but perhaps the most difficult to understand is how human beings could so callously slaughter human beings like they did. One could open to almost any page in the novel and see the inhuman treatment the Jews were put through by the Nazis. There was a moment in the book when they first arrived at the concentration camp where it can been seen on of the most cruel treatment of these simple human being took place. There were huge flames not far from where they were, they knew that something was being burned there. As the truck drew closer they were unloaded and all small children including babies were taken away and thrown into the fire. Elie saw this with his own two eyes and could not believe it was all happening to those innocent children (Wiesel 32). This was how Night demonstrated just how cruel these people were and how their cruelty breeds more cruelty. The Nazis thought this was all fine and what they were doing was for the better of their cause. How could they live with themselves treating human beings like they were nothing, not human at all. Elie had a hard time accepting that people could treat other people this what with such inhumanity. He simply states “I told him that I could not believe that human beings were being burned in our times, the world would never tolerate such crimes” (Weisel 33). His beliefs should has been correct how could the world tolerate what was happening to all of these human beings, these people. The world would not tolerate it thought, one might think, they just did not know what was happening to these people. As this is true to most of the world, they did not know what was happening to these people,

there was an entire nation doing it to them.This alone is enough of a problem and it should have been seen as a crime and inhuman and never done, but people just do not get it.
Morrie saw how man should treat man, Elie understood that the inhumanity he lived thought was wrong; so why does the rest of the world not back them up and stand by these understandings. Though both men clearly lived different lives they both understood how people should be treated and how they were not treated in this way. Morrie may not have experiences inhumanity in the way Elie did, and Elie did not have the philosophy that Morrie had about humanity; both were able to take what they knew and spread to the world what was wrong and how to do it right. Now one can see how the world has experience such inhumanity like in Night; maybe they can start to recognize what inhumanity there is in the world now. Then one must take what he or she learned from morrie in Tuesdays with morrie and understand how society should treat and love one another as humans and people alike. With all these lessons taught by both novels and men, take those tools and try instead of putting the “in” in inhumanity let everyone take the “in” out of inhumanity.