Inhumanity In Night By Elie Wiesel

As stated by Alan Paton “There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.” there is much that can be said about inhumanity and humanity together and apart from one another. In these two novels there are great explanations of both humanity and what it is and the inhumanity shown to others. The first novel is Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, and the other is Night by Elie Wiesel. Both show how man is to man and how people should be treated and how they are not treated as they should be at times. They both have their each standing views on humanity and inhumanity that are similar and think that differ between them. The things they see and experience

In the writing one is taken through Elie Wiesel's journey as a Jew in the Holocaust; which, is one of the greatest platforms to inhumanity there has ever been. There are many aspect of the Holocaust that are incomprehensible, but perhaps the most difficult to understand is how human beings could so callously slaughter human beings like they did. One could open to almost any page in the novel and see the inhuman treatment the Jews were put through by the Nazis. There was a moment in the book when they first arrived at the concentration camp where it can been seen on of the most cruel treatment of these simple human being took place. There were huge flames not far from where they were, they knew that something was being burned there. As the truck drew closer they were unloaded and all small children including babies were taken away and thrown into the fire. Elie saw this with his own two eyes and could not believe it was all happening to those innocent children (Wiesel 32). This was how Night demonstrated just how cruel these people were and how their cruelty breeds more cruelty. The Nazis thought this was all fine and what they were doing was for the better of their cause. How could they live with themselves treating human beings like they were nothing, not human at all. Elie had a hard time accepting that people could treat other people this what with such inhumanity. He simply states “I told him that I could not believe that human beings were being burned in our times, the world would never tolerate such crimes” (Weisel 33). His beliefs should has been correct how could the world tolerate what was happening to all of these human beings, these people. The world would not tolerate it thought, one might think, they just did not know what was happening to these people. As this is true to most of the world, they did not know what was happening to these people,