Theme in Elie Wiesel’s Night From 1933-1945 20,000 concertrarion camps were built. The largest, Aushcwhitz, would end with 1.1 million deaths of innocent people. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, Eliezer shares his experience there and his view on what he saw. Elie explains the ways of death he saw and how it changed him. Throughout his experience at different camps he sees life-changing events that certainly effect him today. The theme of unthinkable inhumanity to one’s fellow man can be both possible and shocking is very clear throughout the tragic story. For the duration of Wiesel’s memoir the way of treatment to the prisoners becomes more inhumane and shocking to all. To begin, when Elie is finally deported from the ghetto and he describes
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Lying down was not an option, nor could we all sit down. There was little air” (22-23). Just what was a blink of an eye compared to the length of the road ahead Elie already had encountered the first of many barbaric actions taken against them. Most people associate traveling as a fun experience, but for the protagonist and many others they were treated as animals making them despondent. Later in the story, Elie gets an infection in his right heal. He goes to the doctor who tells Elie he must operate to prevent him losing his foot. Elie then describe the procedure, “The operation lasted one hour. They did not put me to sleep” (79). Wiesel had to be in excruciating pain if he was not asleep or did not have pain medicines. This procedure shows how the Germans did not care about the prisoners and they did not treat them like fellow human beings. Towards the end of Elie’s time in a camp Wiesel experienced the most shocking inhumane event to onlookers of the prisoners. During the journey from Gleiwitz to Buchenwald Elie describes that once again they were traveling in cattle cars, but this time there were 100 to a car instead of 80. He continues to tell about the reaction of some observers during one of the stops on their journey by
Lying down was not an option, nor could we all sit down. There was little air” (22-23). Just what was a blink of an eye compared to the length of the road ahead Elie already had encountered the first of many barbaric actions taken against them. Most people associate traveling as a fun experience, but for the protagonist and many others they were treated as animals making them despondent. Later in the story, Elie gets an infection in his right heal. He goes to the doctor who tells Elie he must operate to prevent him losing his foot. Elie then describe the procedure, “The operation lasted one hour. They did not put me to sleep” (79). Wiesel had to be in excruciating pain if he was not asleep or did not have pain medicines. This procedure shows how the Germans did not care about the prisoners and they did not treat them like fellow human beings. Towards the end of Elie’s time in a camp Wiesel experienced the most shocking inhumane event to onlookers of the prisoners. During the journey from Gleiwitz to Buchenwald Elie describes that once again they were traveling in cattle cars, but this time there were 100 to a car instead of 80. He continues to tell about the reaction of some observers during one of the stops on their journey by