Examples Of Humanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

The novel Night written by Elie Wiesel is a powerful and touching book. This book allows you to see through the eyes of a 15 year old boy, the torture and other horrors that took place in Auschwitz, a concentration camp run during the holocaust. Through his eyes we see how they were stripped of their basic rights as human, and how when it seemed like they were being humanized, they were really being broken even more. They started to become nothing more than empty shells where a human once lived. The guards began dehumanizing prisoners before they even reached Auschwitz. They were treated, in their own homes, like they were lesser beings. Elie states, “We no longer had the rights to frequent restaurants or to travel by rail, to attend synagogue, to be on the streets after six o’clock in the evening.”(pg. 11) They were forced to follow laws that only applied to them, as if they were a completely different species or they were less than the people who made and enforced the laws. While that was still in their homes they had a long, trying journey ahead of them. When they evacuated their homes they were forced into cattle cars, 80 people to a car. This left no room to sit so many slept standing up or …show more content…
Being treated fairly by one person may have given the people hope. Hope that they would be okay and that there might be a chance of life, of salvation. While hope is hard to obtain, it is easy to lose. Because in the camp there were few people who spread hope, it was hard to keep it. You can see this when the person in charge spoke to the prisoners saying, “Comrades, you are now in the concentration camp Auschwitz. Ahead of you lies a long road with suffering. Don’t lose hope. You have already eluded the worst danger: the selection. Therefore, muster your strength and keep your faith. We shall all see the day of liberation.”(pg.