The Theme Of Human Rights In Elie Wiesel's Night

The loud sounds of heavy, sharp metal chains clinking against each other. Gloomy, dark skies as you walk in single file lines. A lightning quick strike following cracking sounds ruffles the air. “March Faster” an s.s guard umbers. Human rights are automatic individual rights we are all granted at birth, according to the UDHR which is the official document of human rights. In 1940 of Germany most of these rights were violated. With the many years that the world has fought so hard for equality, people shouldn’t be able to take it away like candy from a baby, which is why the rights of freedom from discrimination, torture, and slavery were violated in the book Night. Martin Luther Kings “I Have a Dream” speech revolved around the topic of discrimination. In the book Night Eliezer, his family, and many other Jews were taken and crammed into cattle cars while Hungarian police washed out their homes. They were dehumanized and treated like animals solely because they were Jewish. In the beginning of
Now just imagine someone beating you for no reason at random with a more lethal and deadly weapon, that was how it was in Night. In the memoir, Idek who was Eliezer’s Kapo called him up and ordered him to lie on a box while constantly beating him. Idek did this to basically warn other Jews not to go across his orders and to follow them. There was even mental torture as well, during the train ride guards threw bread on the floor to watch others fight for it as a way of their cruel entertainment. A son even killed his own father for bread and during the night a random Jew strangled Eliezer. This shows how corrupt the holocaust was, however, some of the S.S members in a way were sympathetic but at the same time selfish. A man named Franek tried to make a bargain with Eliezer to be in a more comfortable barrack with his father in exchange for Eliezer’s