Inhumanity In Night By Elie Wiesel

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In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he watched young Pipel hung, “ Then came the march past the victims. The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out, swollen and blush. But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing “ (Wiesel 64-65). It wasn’t anything new to the prisoners, they experienced these acts every single day. There was nothing to brutal in the death camps, Nazi’s had no limits on their punishments and treatments to their jewish prisoners. Two significant themes related to inhumanity discussed in the book Night by Elie Wiesel are the loss of faith displayed and the loss of compassion/care for others. To begin with, During the hanging of young Pipel …show more content…

They continue to do so while watching the jewish prisoners beat and strangle each other over a couple pieces of bread. Wiesel witnesses the brutal killing of an old man by his own son “ Meir, my little Meir! Don’t you recognize me… You’re killing your father… I have bread…for you too… for you too… “ (Wiesel 101). The ruthless killing of the man by his son is a sad realization of how tormented and desensitized the jews are now. They are fully capable of murdering each other with no care of who that person was, they only worry about surviving for themselves. To continue, Elie Wiesel watches as his father, suffering from a colic attack, asks the kapo where the restrooms are. This provokes the Gypsy kapo to smack him in the face very hard. Wiesel, feeling petrified by what he is seeing, says “ Then as if waking from a deep sleep, he slapped my father with such a force that he fell down and crawled back to his place on all fours “ (Wiesel 39). It is very troubling to understand that prisoners in the camps that are given a little power, like the Gypsy, use it to beat and harass the other prisoners. It really shows how the brutality of the SS soldiers rubs off on the jewish prisoners. To finish up, because of the constant killing, beating, and malnourishment of the jews they have become ruthless and

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