Deception In Elie Wiesel's Night

From deportation from Sighet to murder at Birkenau, deception was often used to manipulate the prisoners, How does deception dehumanize?. From being forced to wear the star of David, to curfews, starvation, and torture which came from the gas chambers. Elie Wiesel explained in the book “Night” how he and many others were stripped of basic human rights. Eliezer talk about how a seemingly harmless change took away all human rights, the loss of compassion, loss of faith in God, Elie’s father tried to have hope at the beginning of the memoir as he had said “Yellow star? So what? It's not lethal” Pg 11 , this was foreshadowing for the many things to come. Throughout Elie Wiesel’s emotional background, he and others suffered what no human should …show more content…
Manipulation and lies were a big part of the major steps towards the holocaust and the many tragic events. The jews were becoming what the Germans saw them as, animals.When they were shoved into a cattle car with no food and only a bucket all the way in the corner many were forced to pee on themselves. Mrs. Schachter was having a psychotic breakdown and was screaming at the top of her lungs and all of them turned on her and beat her while her son was holding onto her. The jews turned on each other in a life and death situation. The jews which were also known as the Kappos were the ones that were in charge of the barracks and prisoners,they would lie to and make sure the other Jews were doing as told and if not they had to beat them to death or even just to torture. Some Kappos even had to beat people they knew and loved and if they didn't they would get beat by the german …show more content…
When you have no one to hold on to the most important thing is to stay with your family members as long as possible. For some people knowing that their family is alive keeps them going due to the fact they hope to see their beloved again. “My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with own kind.” (4) Ellie explains how his father, a cultured man, was very engaged with his businesses and his well doings to the community and would rarely have time for his family. When Ellie’s family was shipped to the concentration camp they were immediately separated, his mother with his siblings and he was with his father. In line for the separation he sees his father with worry on his face and starts to pray for his life and his son’s. “His voice was terribly sad.I understood that he did not wish to see what they would do to me. He did not wish to see his only son go up in flames”(33) Mr.Wiesel’s bond with his son may not be close, but he still cares for his son, his own flesh and blood. In the camp Ellie’s father was struck by a partial, but Ellie didn’t do anything to help, "What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of