The Deaf Brutality In Elie Wiesel's Night
The Deaf Brutality Human rights are our natural born acts, something we know that we have as a person. This is what the articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights define. Even though it is our freedom, many of the actions in the memoir “Night”, a book about Elie Wiesel’s experiences at different concentration camps, violated these liberties. Article 3, 5 and 9 are infringed in this book of terrors. Certainly, Article 3 states that, “You have the right to live, to be free, and to feel safe.” Nevertheless, the book “Night” wasn’t following this at all. According to the book in chapter 2, page 33, Wiesel wrote, “”There are eighty of you in the wagon,” added the German officer, “If anyone is missing, you’ll all
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Also, if they had the right to live, in this case if anyone escapes, they’d get shot. Not only that, Wiesel said that when his father was sick, he heard “the doctor shouting at them that they were lazy good-for-nothing who only wanted to stay in bed.” The last cure for these patients gave up on them, and so did their last chance of survival. This shows unfair treatments, and no rights were shown. At this level, Article 5 was also broken in this memoir. It stated that, “Nobody has the right to torture, harm, or humiliate you.” However, the actions of the SS officers and the head of the blocks in the concentration camp aren’t corresponding to this authority. In chapter 3, when Wiesel got in Idek’s way, he got beat up. He describes, “He leapt on me, like a wild animal, hitting me in the chest, on the head, throwing me down and pulling me up again, his blows growing more and more violent, until I was covered with blood.” Wiesel was aching all over, and such pain for a fourteen year old kid is unacceptable. You can’t just let your anger out on someone, especially if they respect you a ton. Physically abusing a person could lead to death and even though this book was published in
Also, if they had the right to live, in this case if anyone escapes, they’d get shot. Not only that, Wiesel said that when his father was sick, he heard “the doctor shouting at them that they were lazy good-for-nothing who only wanted to stay in bed.” The last cure for these patients gave up on them, and so did their last chance of survival. This shows unfair treatments, and no rights were shown. At this level, Article 5 was also broken in this memoir. It stated that, “Nobody has the right to torture, harm, or humiliate you.” However, the actions of the SS officers and the head of the blocks in the concentration camp aren’t corresponding to this authority. In chapter 3, when Wiesel got in Idek’s way, he got beat up. He describes, “He leapt on me, like a wild animal, hitting me in the chest, on the head, throwing me down and pulling me up again, his blows growing more and more violent, until I was covered with blood.” Wiesel was aching all over, and such pain for a fourteen year old kid is unacceptable. You can’t just let your anger out on someone, especially if they respect you a ton. Physically abusing a person could lead to death and even though this book was published in