Human Characteristics Of Humanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

Humanization Denied The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a story of a young boy who goes through the holocaust from the time the Germans took over his home town of Sighet to the time he was set free from the Germans and their concentrations camps that totally stripped away their faith, all their rights, human qualities and for some the will to live. This is all due to by the way they were treated and made to feel like they were no longer humans. To define dehumanizing is to say to deprive one of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality, to render mechanical, artificial or routine. (http://www.dictionary.com) There were many times the Jew were made to feel like they were less than human. The Jews were dehumanized by the Germans when …show more content…
They were herded into cattle cars with one hundred people in a car that was meant for cattle, horses, pigs’ animals of all kinds not humans. But the German had dehumanized the Jews by everything had done to them during World War II that that is where they made them travel like a pack of animals. When passing through a German town one of the Germans through a piece of bread into the cattle car to see what would happen the Jews started fighting, killing each other over the one piece of bread. Other Germans saw what he did and what happened and they followed suit and the fighting and killing continued. This does show that Hitler did break them into becoming animals because they were so hungry they would fight each other and even kill for just a piece of bread. The Jews were broken and did not even realize they were killing their own kin. So Hitler had done his work by making them into