Humanity In Elie Wiesel's Night

“Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today everything is allowed. Anything is possible, even these crematories...” (Wiesel 30). In Night, Elie Wiesel has shown that humanity change day by day after they walked into a living hell. Humanity makes human become a human, but inhumanity is something that has the opposite behavior with humanity. First, in the first day they came to the camp, the inhumane treatment had begun. There was a man who seem to be there for a long time, warning everybody about the crematories. “Over there, that’s where you going to be taken. That’s your grave, over there. Haven’t you realized it yet? You dumb bastards, don’t you understand anything? You’re going to be burn. Frizzled away. Turn into ashes” (Wiesel …show more content…
In a snowstorm, they moved to another place, and someone abandoned their family on the way. “A terrible thought loomed up in my mind: he had wanted to get rid of his father! He had felt that his father was growing weak, he had believed that the end was near and had sought this separation in order to get rid of the burden, to free himself from an encumbrance which could lessen his own chance to survival” (Wiesel 87). This behavior is unacceptable because no one can abandon their family unless their humanity is gone. Soon, all the Jews were on the train to move to another place again, and this was when their inhumanity developed to the highest level. “Meir. Meir, my boy! Don’t you recognize me? I’m your father...you’re hurting me...you’re killing your father! I’ve got some bread...for you too...for you too…” (Wiesel 96). Abandoning family can be acceptable sometimes, but killing one’s own blood just for a piece of bread is the behavior of human that had lost their humanity which was called a beast. The German soldiers have succeeded in getting rid of the humanity of the Jews, made they become murderers, and beasts, not a human