Loss Of Humanity In Night By Elie Wiesel

Death of Humanity The novel Night, written by Elie Wiesel, takes the reader through his mind as he endures the cruelty of the concentration camp. With a theme such as death, it is no wonder that cruelty’s role leads to the torture and death of millions of innocent humans. As the story progresses through his life in the camps, the cruelty increases in magnitude. It first starts by people being stripped from their homes and taken to the camp. Once in the cruel camps, their identities are taken and replaced with only a number. Then their clothes, family, hope, and finally their will to live is stolen from them by their captors. Elie Wiesel was one of the millions of Jews involved in the holocaust. He survived and years later wrote about

Cruelty and death go hand and hand is this novel. Nazi cruelty is what drove 11 million people to the furnaces. During World War II, Hitler and the Nazis instilled fear and hatred for the Jewish people in the hearts of Germans. Elie discovered that when a person is hated and dehumanized the cruelty you endure becomes immense. In the book, he encounters cruelty in multiple forms. There is physical and mental abuse, and worst of all, people standing by and just watching all of this death and cruelty happen. The guards and kapos show some of the biggest acts of cruelty in this novel. All throughout the novel, they beat and insult the prisoners of the camps without any remorse. In addition, the majority of bystanders showed little to no pity toward the Jews that they saw marching down their streets on the way to another death

Elie stated, “I was thinking of my father. He must have suffered more than I did” (Weisel 43). This shows that even in the face of cruelty Elie cares for his father more than he does for himself. Cruelty has the ability to drive people apart. But in the face of all this, Elie and his father are driven closer than they ever were outside of the camp. Elie and his father show how love can help people keep going even in the hardest times. Up until the time of Elie’s father's death, they helped each other in almost every way possible. They shared all they had with each other including their food and the clothes on their backs. This kind of love kept them alive in the camps until the very end. Just a few weeks shy of the camp’s liberation, Elie’s father dies after all his time in the camps. Elie never saw his father after he died. His body was taken away while Elie was still