Night By Elie Wiesel Research Paper
“Without passion, without haste, they slaughtered their prisoners” (5).
Dehumanization is when others view human beings as less than human, it is the deprival of positive human qualities. In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel he explains the dehumanization of himself, his family, and his fellow Jews throughout their journey from going to many different camps during the Holocaust. He is a fifteen year old boy from the town of Sighet, but was deported into concentration camps where he faced starvation, abuse, and more horrific things. Hitler and the Nazis dehumanize the Jews by not calling them by their names, giving them commands like they are animals, treating them horribly, starving them, and transporting them to different camps in cattle trucks. This …show more content…
Elie becomes a member of Block 17, his number is “A-7713”. Elie states “The three “veterans,” with needles in their hands, engraved a number on our left arms. I became A-7713. After that I had no other name.”(31). By saying “engraved a number on our left arms” it shows that the Nazis thought they were animals because they were branding them. It shows the dehumanization of the Jews because now they are referred to as a number rather than their name. No one will know him by his name Elie Wiesel for the couple next of years where he will spend in different concentration camps. The Jews are also transported to different camps by cattle trucks where they are forced to sit, it is very crowded in there and there is very little space to move. “There are eighty of you in this wagon... if anyone is missing, you’ll all be shot, like dogs…” (18). This shows that the Germans had no respect for the Jews, and they thought that the Jews were capable of doing nothing. They referred to them as “dogs” or animals, and that shows that the Jews were not capable of having human qualities based on the
Dehumanization is when others view human beings as less than human, it is the deprival of positive human qualities. In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel he explains the dehumanization of himself, his family, and his fellow Jews throughout their journey from going to many different camps during the Holocaust. He is a fifteen year old boy from the town of Sighet, but was deported into concentration camps where he faced starvation, abuse, and more horrific things. Hitler and the Nazis dehumanize the Jews by not calling them by their names, giving them commands like they are animals, treating them horribly, starving them, and transporting them to different camps in cattle trucks. This …show more content…
Elie becomes a member of Block 17, his number is “A-7713”. Elie states “The three “veterans,” with needles in their hands, engraved a number on our left arms. I became A-7713. After that I had no other name.”(31). By saying “engraved a number on our left arms” it shows that the Nazis thought they were animals because they were branding them. It shows the dehumanization of the Jews because now they are referred to as a number rather than their name. No one will know him by his name Elie Wiesel for the couple next of years where he will spend in different concentration camps. The Jews are also transported to different camps by cattle trucks where they are forced to sit, it is very crowded in there and there is very little space to move. “There are eighty of you in this wagon... if anyone is missing, you’ll all be shot, like dogs…” (18). This shows that the Germans had no respect for the Jews, and they thought that the Jews were capable of doing nothing. They referred to them as “dogs” or animals, and that shows that the Jews were not capable of having human qualities based on the