Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel's Night

Night by Elie Wiesel’s

Night by Elie Wiesel’s is a novel that takes place during the Holocaust – in which approximately six million Jews were blamed for Germany’s depression in World War I were mass murdered during World War II. The man behind this genocide, Adolf Hitler, had several goals during the Holocaust. Hitler not only wanted to experiment and to control the Jewish, but also to dehumanize Jews subjecting them to ridicule and violence. To this day, the unthinkable acts performed by the Nazis embed apprehension in the hearts of men and women from all over the world. The disturbing acts of disregard for a human life, women and children included forever scaring society with hatred and judgment. Jews were gathered into ‘concentration camps’ and tortured for the simple fact that they were born into a Jewish culture - no other rhyme or reason other than to please the Hitler and his Nazi following. On a daily basis, the Nazi’s forced the Jew’s to fight for their food and water, only keeping them alive to perform labor, and when they could no longer be of use to their captors, they were exterminated.
Another example of such dehumanization took place in the burning of completely mindful people including but not limited to; women, babies, elderly, homosexuals, the ill, and the handicapped. Upon arrival to extermination camps, they were immediately deposited into crematoriums. “Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there” (32 Wiesel’s). For the Nazi’s to murder and burn humans while alive or throw them into gas chambers solely because they considered them to be undesirable is an unthinkable inhumane act.
During the time of the holocaust Nazis were known for being some of th...

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... war. Jimmy Cross for example, eventually burns his lover Martha’s pictures and letters to ensure his sole focus was on the war and to help him separate fantasy from reality.
At the end of the day, I felt as if the “things” represented in The Things They Carried were delicate in nature, whether the item be substantial or insubstantial to the war itself. The “things” were not weapons or even the soldiers’ personal baggage but instead the “things” were emotional baggage.” The war gave soldiers this grave and profound emotional burden that they had to be alerted of death. As the narrator says, "It was the burden of being alive (p.85 O’Brian)." O'Brian's The Things They Carried reflects on the burden of war and informs the reader how war can affect and change an individual. How those “things” carried by soldiers affected them not only physically, but mentally as well.