Brute Reason In The Book Night

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Oscar Wilde once said, I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. For Elie and the jewish people becoming a brute became easy.

In 1944 Elie and the whole jewish community were taken from their homes, they were than transferred to jewish concentration camps where they suffered this is what they now call the holocaust about 6 million jews died, now imagine the pain and suffering they would go through. In the book Night Elie explains his journey about his time in Auschwitz,
And how Cruel treatment can make decent people into brutes. Does Elie himself escape this fate,

Well in the beginning Elie slowly becomes a brute at this part in the book on page 42, Elie and his father have been split up from his mother and sister, and are walking into the concentration camp, as he’s walking he’s seeing in the ditch burning children and adults , his father than is thinking they are going to die so his father is doing the Prayer of the dead Elie than thinks to himself “For the first time I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless him? The eternal lord of the universe. The all powerful and terrible was silent what had I to thank him for? Elie is referring to all the bad things that are …show more content…
At first my father crouched under the blows than broke into two, like a dry tree struck by lightning, and collapsed.I had watched the whole scene without moving. I kept quiet and kept thinking of how to get farther away so that I would not be hit myself. What is more any anger I felt at that moment was directed, not against the Kapo but against my father” Elie is turning into a brute because his father keeps getting beat by the Kapo and Elie is becoming very angry because he does not want to get

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