Inhumanity In Elie Wiesel's Night

Inhumanity is witnessed all over the world. One particular time in history that inhumanity is apparent is during the Holocaust. In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, the life of a Jew in a concentration camp is witnessed first hand. The way the jews are treated shows how inhumane people can be. This inhumanity alters how the jews think and how they act. Inhumanity does not onlt alter the physical appearance, but the mental thoyught process. The jews were treated as animals. When they were tansported to the camps they were in tightly packed cars. “‘There are 80 of you in the car,’” the German officer added. ‘If anyone goes missing, you will all be shot like dogs.’” (24). When they arrived at camp they were stripped naked in front of everyone else and they had their head shaved. The jews were stripped of their names and were from then on only called by their numbers. “The three ‘veteran’ prisioners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on

our arms. I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name.” (42). All od the things that the jews were pu through physically altered their appearance. …show more content…
For example they lost their faith in god. “‘For God’s sake, where is god?’ And from within me, I heard a voice answer: ‘Where He is? This is where-hanging here from this gallows…’” (65). When the young boy was hung, everyone asked where God was. They thought he should have been there to save the boy. “Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes...children thrown into the flames. (Is it ant wonder that ever since then,sleep tends to eldude me.)” (32). Elie is in disbelief that they are burning