Examples Of Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

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“The Red Army is advancing with giant strides.Hitler will not be able to harm us, even if he wants to.” This is what Elie and his fellow people of the Jewish community thought in the Novel Night by Elie Wiesel. This is a story about a family being taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp and getting tortured and dehumanized by the Nazis. The following forms starving, getting beaten, and taking away their identity which affects Eliezer’s outlook on life.

One of the ways they dehumanized the prisoners of the camp was by starving them and Elie would even say “we were withered trees in the heart of the desert”(Weisel 37) because of how shriveled up and malnourished they were. This affects Elie emotionally and physically because the loss of food completely changes Elie’s mindset. he says “At that moment in time, all that mattered to me was my daily bowl of soup, my crust of stale bread. The bread, the soup–those were my entire life” (Wiesel 52). and it changes him physically because now without much food he does not have the strength as he used to and now he also gets colder due to him being so skinny and thin.
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This shows that they were beaten so often that even though it was his father getting beaten he did not have a care in the world. The way this affects Elie is by making him more violent to his own family because he says “If I felt anger at that moment it was directed at my father”(Wiesel