Inhumanity Theme In Night By Elie Wiesel

In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he saw the child that got hanged up by a rope and was forced to watch him struggle.”But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light,was still breathing”(wiesel 65). The boy was suffocating as they watched. As the author describes his experiences many examples of are revealed. Two significant themes related to inhumanity discussed in the book Night by Elie Wiesel are disbelief and loss of faith. One theme in Night is that inhumanity can cause disbelief. To begin with, there are a lot of terrible things wiesel has done and had happen to him in the concentration camp. “Why, but why bless him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because he caused thousands of children to burn in his mass graves? Because he …show more content…
Wiesel and all the people in the concentration camp were treated horribly and some were left to die. When someone was going to get killed or torchered, everyone had to watch.“I suffer in hell in my soul and my flesh. I also have eyes and i see what is being done here.Where is God’s mercy? where‘s God how can i believe how can anyone believe in this God of mercy”(wiesel 77). Wiesel says that he’s in hell and he asks why god isin’t helping him and why doesn’t god do anything about it. For instance the nazi’s have so many ways of ruining people’s lives while they are at the concentration camps.”Some of the men spoke of God;his mysterious ways, the sins of the jewish people and the redemption to come as for me, i had ceased to pray. I concurred with job! I was not denying his existence, but doubted his absolute”(wiesel 45). This shows how the holocaust affected the jews peoples believes on God. In short, This proves that loss of faith took a big part of the book and is shown everywhere in the book also it’s not a normal world when children get