The Dehumanization Of Eliezer Wiesel
The Holocaust was a horrendous phenomenon that slaughtered and devastated many Jews. Adolf Hitler at the time was the dictator making the regulations and forcing them into concentration camps . Where they were put through purgatory enduring many catastrophic experiences. One of those Jews being Eliezer Wiesel, he was a son, brother, and a friend. He never could conceptualize this notion of being tortured and dehumanized in such violent ways. Throughout the novel Night, character Eliezer Wiesel experiences dehumanization along with his father Shlomo and other Jews. The Nazis target the vulnerable Jews humanity, and diminished their feelings of being a human. This sudden loss of humanity decreased the desire to live in the holocaust victims to vanish and led to many deaths among Jews. The Nazis had many despicable practices used to brutalize the Jewish People. These practices included torture, starvation and dehydration, and physical and emotional abuse.
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They both have this idea that they are safe and sound until they realized their true fate awaits at the camps. Only attempt to survive Eliezer and his father must lie about their age. Gradually, moving forward seeing all the pain other Jews are facing and coming to a realization when see babies both babies and adults being burned. “Yes I did see this,with my own eyes children thrown into the flames”. This traumatizing event was just one of the few that had an impact on Elie making him question his god and his reasoning. He experiences even more terror when he witness a hanging and is forced against his will to stare at the dead boy’s face before eating his own dinner. Realizing he has to try everything in his power to stay alive and keep his father alive as
They both have this idea that they are safe and sound until they realized their true fate awaits at the camps. Only attempt to survive Eliezer and his father must lie about their age. Gradually, moving forward seeing all the pain other Jews are facing and coming to a realization when see babies both babies and adults being burned. “Yes I did see this,with my own eyes children thrown into the flames”. This traumatizing event was just one of the few that had an impact on Elie making him question his god and his reasoning. He experiences even more terror when he witness a hanging and is forced against his will to stare at the dead boy’s face before eating his own dinner. Realizing he has to try everything in his power to stay alive and keep his father alive as