Hunter W Webb Mrs. Gibson English II 2 March 2023 As a young teenager or child you´ve always dreamt of having more responsibilities and being more accountable for yourself and others.The idea of being an adult sounds fun as a teen but with that responsibility comes a heavy burden. As humans we are all faced with difficult moral dilemmas that can make or break us and define us as people. We are brought up to make the right decisions, be truthful and generally do what is best for others and ourselves. Trouble arises though when those same humans cover the painful truth and don't reach out to help others. That is when we reach a breaking point for our society that can make or break us depending on who we are as people. As we develop throughout …show more content…
A rebellion doesn't start out headstrong, there has to be a buildup. There needs to be a handful of actions that are taken that those who are oppressed either won´t mind or don't see the measures taken. ¨The yellow star? So what? It's not lethal…¨ (Wiesel Night Chapter 1). The following quote goes to show how oblivious Wiesel's father was to the yellow star that all jews were issued to be identified, As jews or a target. Similar to how farmers ear tag their livestock to give ideas of who is who. The definition of dehumanization is ¨the process of deriving a person or group of positive human qualities¨ which pertains to the next piece of Night to show just how far the Nazi`s went during the Holocaust. ¨Not far from us, flames were leaping up from a ditch, gigantic flames. They were burning something. A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load-little children. Babies!¨(Wiesel Night Chapter 3). Young children such as babies are typically considered precious and not a soul would consider harming them. The Nazi on the other hand decided to look past typically and treat young children as if they were fuel to the fire, all based on religion and …show more content…
They were treated like animals, which is shown numerous times during Night. Such as the Yellow star for identification. Which as stated brings to mind the thought they were treated such as livestock. It would be a mistake to ignore the fact that jews were loaded into cattle cars for transport. Proving the usage of dehumanization and iniquity in the course of the Holocaust. Accountability is the idea of not only taking blame for the repercussions of your actions, but it also has a strong correlation with responsibility. Wiesel goes to show that no matter how difficult things may get, people will become less accountable to others and worry more about their own living and care. ¨when one is faced with demanding obstacles, one’s sense of obligation to others may become compromised¨. (Accountability in Night ). If things are rough we can lose a sense of who we are and the morals that we once had. Wiesel uses his experiences during the Holocaust to show accountability, from not only himself but the lack of it from others. ¨Elie then watches an old man hide bread before he is attacked and killed by his own son. The son kills his father for the bread before several prisoners attack and kill him.¨ (Wiesel Night Chapter 7). Throughout the novel WIesel uses his experiences as a lesson. He uses his platform in order to teach wrong from right and help us learn and heal from the
Nakedness, beatings, dogs, tattooed numbers, fire, chimney, crematoria, loneliness, silence, death,... selection. These were all methods and statements made by the Germans in an effort to dehumanize the Jews. One of Elie Wiesel’s main focuses in the book Night is on dehumanization. Germans would put Jews in harsh situations to make them suffer, to the point of death.
Dehumanization The Nazis dehumanized the innocent people. In the novel it showed what life was like during the holocaust. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesal, tells you the way that the Nazis dehumanized the Jewish race. They dehumanized the Jewish race by doing what they would do to animals. They burned them.
The Dehumanization of Jews Dehumanization is the process by which the Nazis gradually reduced the Jews to little more than things. In Night By, Elie Wiesel, Eliezer, his father, and the other Jews were dehumanized over time to they became nothing to the SS officers. In the first part of Night Moshe the Beadle was thrown onto the first load of cattle cars and sent off. ( Night pg. 6) “They stopped the cattle car that Moshe was on, and the officers made the Jews dig a big trench and then the shot and killed them.
During the time of 1933-1945 the Nazi’s implemented a series of dehumanizing actions towards the jewish. In the book “Night” by Eliezer Wiesel, Wiesel discusses his life before being deported to a concentration camp, his experience in concentrations camps, and how he was finally liberated. Through Wiesel, we are able to witness the way these unfortunate jewish people were stripped of their rights, experimented on and objectified. First of all, there were many laws that were being established that were specifically targeting the Jewish population as time was progressing in Nazi Germany. These laws made a huge impact and made it more difficult for the jewish community to live as “normal” human beings.
The book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, was published in 1956. Elie, a Holocaust survivor tells us his story about being in a concentration camps and how he got through it all. During the Holocaust Germany’s Nazis treated the Jewish people with extreme cruelty. It is important to understand this history through Elie’s personal experiences. One of the ways that the book shows how cruel the Nazis were to the Jewish people is when Elie and the rest of the Jewish people were put into a train with no bathroom, with little air, all crowded, not given enough food, and treated like animals.
“It always starts with the Jews but never ends with the Jews.” Antisemitic has been around throughout the middle ages and now in the 20th century where it can now be documented as its hatred is on the rise. Often, Jewish are the targets of extremist parties and their behavior and ideologies have been most of the time acceptable. Most people start with a criticism of the Israel people. That is where the line starts with the mindsets demonizing a group of people, making them look like the common enemy and that becomes antisemitism.
Night: The Peak of Inhumanity Throughout history man has been cruel to man in many ways. Although there has been not many more cruel than the treatment of the Jews in Germany and Europe during the Nazi rule and throughout the Second World War. Many of the ways they were treated is more akin to the treatment of animals in a farm being raised for the slaughter, or of the way that slaves were treated around the world. The way the Germans treated the Jews is detestable, and the way the Jews and prisoners treated each other during such times of strife were equally detestable.
Jonah Wright English II Mrs. M. Scott February 21, 2023 Dehumanization of the Jews in Night Dehumanization is the denial of full humaneness in others and the cruelty and suffering that accompanies it. Throughout the book Night by Elie Wiesel, these accounts of dehumanization, starvation, and deprivation are shown. In the year 1944, The SS Officers transported the people of Sighet to a concentration camp called Auschwitz. There at Auschwitz was a form of punishment for the Jews, they experienced physical and mental torture identity loss and denial of food and water. These cruel treatments led to the dehumanization of the Jews which is exactly what Hitler planned.
In Night by Eli Wiesel, Eli showed many examples on how the Nazis tried to dehumanize the Jews during the Holocaust. One example of the dehumanization of the Jews took place just before the Ghettos and their transportation. On page eleven, Elie narrates, “Three days later, a new decree: every Jew had to wear the yellow star.” This yellow star, that at first seemed harmless, would cause them great pain. This labeled the Jews just like they would tag animals.
Throughout Night, dehumanization consistently took place as the tyrant Nazis oppressed the Jewish citizens. The Nazis targeted the Jews' humanity, and slowly dissolved their feeling of being human. The feeling of dehumanization was very common between the jews. They were constantly being treated as in they were animals. The author and narrator Elie Wiesel, personally experienced being treated like an animal
Voltaire, a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher, stated that “With great power comes great responsibility.” Taking responsibility is recognizing and admitting the choices we have made, how we carried out this choices into actions, and their outcomes. There should be a correspondence between the actions we choose and our moral values. Having moral responsibility is one of the things that separate us from animals. As social beings, we have learned to follow the rules of society and to fulfill certain obligations.
Luke spoerel Ms. Gribbin 7 / February / 2023 English 8 Nothing Left No food, no water, and barely any life, were the conditions that Elie Wiesel a 15 year old holocaust survivor had to endure for 11 months. Imagine you are crammed into small cattle carts and transported to a camp, where you are forced to do hard labor, given no food, and the chance of survival is close to none. All because of your religion. In the book, Night, by Elie Wiesel dehumanization is shown when you are selected either to live or to die based on how you looked, Having to fight and kill others just for a piece of bread and being forced to run until they physically could not.
(8). This reveals that when people hear something that doesn’t seem correct to be true they assume it’s incorrect because they don’t believe that humans are so cruel to do something towards others that will harm them and create no good for everyone. This also reveals that some people are so ignorant that they don’t want to even think or believe that humans can hurt other humans and do harm to their own human
“The days were like nights, and the nights left dregs of their darkness in our souls.” (Wiesel, pg. 100). When he says this he is comparing the nights of darkness to everyone's souls at this time. Fire and the burnings of Jewish people just because they were Jewish was showing the Nazis cruel power they had over everyone in their pathway.
Responsibility is hard to define. What is more, it carries a relatively different meaning for each individual. This fact is fairly logical due to the fact that each person owns specific character traits and a temperament that are distinctive for everyone. In fact, one’s personality is not likely to adapt or change and, thus, is appreciated by society. Personally I can characterize myself as quite a responsible and reliable individual and my family fully depends on me.