Dehumanization
“Unless one lives and lives in the trenches it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless”Avare Lorde once said. Dehumanization is the process of taking away natural human qualities and rights from a human being. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night dehumanization is illustrated that after being neglected for so long one’s humanity can become lost.
When the Jews arrive at the concentration camps they are robbed of their identity and treated as worthless animals. As the Jews are getting out of the wagon an SS officer with a club commands “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (Wiesel 29). That was the last time Elie held his mother's hand and had seen her, but Elie remains with his father. Prisoners were
“Unless one lives and lives in the trenches it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless”Avare Lorde once said. Dehumanization is the process of taking away natural human qualities and rights from a human being. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night dehumanization is illustrated that after being neglected for so long one’s humanity can become lost.
When the Jews arrive at the concentration camps they are robbed of their identity and treated as worthless animals. As the Jews are getting out of the wagon an SS officer with a club commands “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (Wiesel 29). That was the last time Elie held his mother's hand and had seen her, but Elie remains with his father. Prisoners were