No food, no water, and no clothes are just the facade of it. “Behind me, someone said, sighing, ‘What do you expect? That’s war…’” (6) is where it all began for Eliezer Wiesel and his family in the memoir Night. Despite the ways Hitler is able to dehumanize the Jews and permits the SS officers to beat Eliezer, along with how others treated each other in acts of survival, Elie escapes the fate of becoming a brute like others.
It doesn’t take much to tear a person down. Dehumanization began with eight simple words, “Men to the left! Women to the right!” “I didn’t know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever” (29). At this moment, he is separated from his mother and sisters who
It doesn’t take much to tear a person down. Dehumanization began with eight simple words, “Men to the left! Women to the right!” “I didn’t know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever” (29). At this moment, he is separated from his mother and sisters who