The book “Night” written by Elie Wiesel clearly demonstrates the devastating life inside a concentration camp during WWII. The book explains Elie’s personal experience inside the concentration camp and how his life was affected/changed after being in that concentration camp. To begin, the book “Night” starts off talking about Elie Wiesel of 13 years of age that lived with his mom, dad, and sister. One day Elie and his family were practically forced out of their house and forced to leave their town called the ghetto. They were packed into cattle cars with several different other families and were given very little food and water. Later on in the book when Elie and his family reach their destination in Auschwitz, Elie and his father were separated
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The book “Night” clearly explains how the Nazi and SS treated the Jews that same way which proves their violation of Article 5 of the UDHR which states that “no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” In “Night” there are 3 main examples of how the Nazi violated this article. To start off with, the first example is, some of the Jews inside the concentration camp were forced by SS to work in the crematory. This type of work was inhumane because of the conditions they were working in. The people who were working in the crematorium had to cremate people on command no matter if they were alive or dead. That crematory also smelled really bad of human flesh and the people that worked there hardly were able to go outside. The second example that proves how the Nazi violated the 5th Article of the UDHR is that the Nazi forced the Jews to work at horrible mines. Working at the mines was a torture because those mines were inadequate for people to work in. The Jews that were forced to work there had to lift heavy objects like rocks, they also had to work long hours, and finally they would hardly even get any food, water, and clothing.The final example is found in one of the last chapter of the book “Night”, Elie and his father were forced to run many many miles to get to another concentration camp, and if they were to slow down the slightest bit then …show more content…
Silence impacted the story severely from beginning to end. From the silent nights spent in the concentration camps to the silent decision he made that probably saved his life. Silence help him at the beginning when he arrived at the concentration camp because he had a minor rebellious attitude that was fired up by the anger he had. During this time he could have probably spoken out and reacted upon what he thought but he could have easily been killed right then and there. His silence in that moment kept him alive. One example that shows how his silence really impacted him and his father 's life was at the end of the story when his father was weak and begged his son "Eliezer water,” all he wanted was water but the SS that had walked in to where he was at told Elie’s father to be quiet. Elie’s father kept on asking, and then the SS hit him repeatedly. During all of this his Elie stayed quiet and did nothing. If he would have acted he probably would have also gotten beaten, but at the same time it was his father. Wouldn’t you stick up for your father if it meant you would also get a beating? Silence has many impacts it can be good at times but deceiving and
The book “Night” clearly explains how the Nazi and SS treated the Jews that same way which proves their violation of Article 5 of the UDHR which states that “no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” In “Night” there are 3 main examples of how the Nazi violated this article. To start off with, the first example is, some of the Jews inside the concentration camp were forced by SS to work in the crematory. This type of work was inhumane because of the conditions they were working in. The people who were working in the crematorium had to cremate people on command no matter if they were alive or dead. That crematory also smelled really bad of human flesh and the people that worked there hardly were able to go outside. The second example that proves how the Nazi violated the 5th Article of the UDHR is that the Nazi forced the Jews to work at horrible mines. Working at the mines was a torture because those mines were inadequate for people to work in. The Jews that were forced to work there had to lift heavy objects like rocks, they also had to work long hours, and finally they would hardly even get any food, water, and clothing.The final example is found in one of the last chapter of the book “Night”, Elie and his father were forced to run many many miles to get to another concentration camp, and if they were to slow down the slightest bit then …show more content…
Silence impacted the story severely from beginning to end. From the silent nights spent in the concentration camps to the silent decision he made that probably saved his life. Silence help him at the beginning when he arrived at the concentration camp because he had a minor rebellious attitude that was fired up by the anger he had. During this time he could have probably spoken out and reacted upon what he thought but he could have easily been killed right then and there. His silence in that moment kept him alive. One example that shows how his silence really impacted him and his father 's life was at the end of the story when his father was weak and begged his son "Eliezer water,” all he wanted was water but the SS that had walked in to where he was at told Elie’s father to be quiet. Elie’s father kept on asking, and then the SS hit him repeatedly. During all of this his Elie stayed quiet and did nothing. If he would have acted he probably would have also gotten beaten, but at the same time it was his father. Wouldn’t you stick up for your father if it meant you would also get a beating? Silence has many impacts it can be good at times but deceiving and