Alan Paton once stated, “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.” In the book Night by Elie Wiesel there is so much inhumanity. Throughout reading this novel I thought to myself, how could a human do something so horrific to another human. In the novel Tuesday’s with Morrie by Mitch Albom there is inhumanity, but it is a different kind. Throughout these two novels, there is so much inhumanity, but both Morrie and Elie keep pushing they keep fighting. Unlike Morrie, Elie’s situation was harsh, and lonely. Morrie’s journey was rough, happy and sane. From Morrie having ALS, nice beds and lots of food. Elie had nothing, he had one set of clothes, …show more content…
Morrie had a killing disease that killed his body but not his brain. He was dying and the outside world keep going. “My old professor, meanwhile, was stunned by the normalcy of the day around him. Shouldn’t the world stop? Don’t they know what has happened to me? But the world did not stop, it took no notice at all…” (Albom 8). This is what happened in Night, Elie and the other Jews were being burned and killed by gas chambers, they were being starved to death and the outside world did nothing to stop it. The outside world thought they were good camps, fun, exciting places but really they were horrifying camps. Elie and his father had to work, they had to go on with life, they had to push and push to stay alive. They had to see one another be beaten and see friends dying of starvation and other …show more content…
Look at the flames! Flames everywhere…” (Wiesel 26). Elie had to see and smell humans being killed, he had to watch his father dying but keep pushing. He had to feel himself dying but he never gave up. Morrie, he loved dying, after he knew he had ALS he lived his life3 to the fullest he still went on he never gave up. Elie never gave up either, Elie pushed and fought his way through the Holocaust, he survived. “Oh yes. You atrip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much different.” (Albom 83) Morrie was stripped of his body, his brain was the only thing he had left. Unlike Morrie, Elie was stripped of everything he believed in, even his name. They were both stripped of everything but everything was different. Elie was stripped of who he was, of his clothes, of his home, of his dignity. Where Morrie was stripped of his body, his ability to move, to walk. They were both stripped of the things we take for
In the book Night, we the readers witness the hardships and struggles in Elie’s life during the traumatic holocaust. The events that take place in this story are unbearable and are thought to be demented in modern times. In the beginning Elie is shown as a normal teenage Jewish boy, but the events are so drastic that we the readers forget how he was like in the beginning. Changes were made to Elie during the book, whether they were minor or major. The changes generated from himself, the journey, and other people.
Raymond Greenlees Miss Crook Adv. Composition Honers 20 March 2023 Inhumanity within Night Cruelty is the intentional infliction of pain and suffering on another person, and the Nazis committed this to an entire group, just ask Elie Wiesel.
During a time of war and crisis, there are only two types of people: people that live or people that die. Both Night, by Elie Wiesel, and A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah, are set in a time of war and crisis. The theme “hope and fear drive human behavior” best fits these two novels. During tough times, such as war, many people get into a mode of self-survival; fear can be a great motivator and has the ability to take away one’s humanity and to turn a once loving human being to a selfish monster. During the book Night, Elie faces many life changing challenges and is endeavoring to survive in the Holocaust.
As his father groaned once more Elie heard: "Eliezer” as he saw that his dad was still breathing—in gasps. Yet for the fear that consumed him Elie didn't move showing the progression of how much he changed his kindness and caring self gone consumed by fear. During the tomb he did not weep and prayers were not spoken no memory his last word being the call for Elie but Elie did not answer and deep down he knew that if he searched the recesses of his feeble conscience he might have found something like free at last! That showed again that now all that Ellie cared about was his freedom a drastic change in what he cared about before which mainly was his god and family but now his faith in his god is gone and his care for his dad vanished as well consumed by fear and his want for freedom. Later on after his dad death Elie cared about nothing as if nothing mattered anymore and to him nothing did.
As cruel as this horrid heinous act may be, the true crime against humanity can be viewed with a little examination. Under the surface was Elie’s mention to the fact he was changed. Shockingly, he displayed his surprise to the fact, and how he was different. This was his way to strengthen the fact that he was being changed by this place. Of course, the change was towards his priorities, that being survival.
Due to the harsh living conditions and the constant violence around him, Elies mind had to become Numb to not only his own pain, but also the pain around him. The quote, “No prayers were said over his tomb. No candle lit in his memory. His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered.
Of course, both Morrie and Elie would have much rather lived their lives differently, but they did not have a choice. They knew that they could not change this, so therefore, they had to learn to not fear death. It's not easy to say that if they did not go through these horrific times they would fear death, but they did go through it. Morrie’s sickness grew each and everyday and there was no telling when his life was going to be over. Morrie told Mitch, “Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live” (Albom 82).
However when the Germans came, every drop of hope was sucked out of him and his family. He was separated from his mother and sister, saw bodies burn day by day, bodies being shot left and right and people killing each other for their own survival needs. Even so, Elie never took the chance of killing himself because he was always around his father. When Elie was running the death march of 52 miles, he never quit even when his stomach felt like bursting. Elie always had a drip of hope even when he didn’t realize it.
Elie himself begins to lose his humanity and his faith in God and in the
Again, Wiesel shows the connection between humanity and mortality with the death of his father near the end of the book. When Elie’s father realizes he is dying, he, “began talking, faster and faster, afraid of running out of time before he could tell [Elie] everything.”(108). The threat of death affects how people live. A sense of urgency exists that only humans feel because they understand death. As a result of a healthy knowledge of death, people make hard decisions in order to use their time wisely.
In this book Elie speaks of his hardships and how he survived the concentration camps. Elie quickly changed into a sorrowful person, but despite that he was determined to stay alive no matter the cost. For instance, during the death
The severely cruel conditions of concentration camps had a profound impact on everyone who had the misfortune of experiencing them. For Elie Wiesel, the author of Night and a survivor of Auschwitz, one aspect of himself that was greatly impacted was his view of humanity. During his time before, during, and after the holocaust, Elie changed from being a boy with a relatively average outlook on mankind, to a shadow of a man with no faith in the goodness of society, before regaining confidence in humanity once again later in his life. For the first 13 years of his life, Elie seemed to have a normal outlook on humanity.
Inhumane In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the theme man's inhumanity man relates to cruelty by calling them names, treating them horribly, and making them look the same. Even the Jews in the same barracks fight each other for food, and some people suffocate because they are laying on top of each other. In this quote “Faster you swine”(Wiesel 91). This quote shows the reader how the Nazis treated the Jews when they are marching to Gleiwitz.
The human condition is a very malleable idea that is constantly changing due to the current state of mankind. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the concept of the human condition is displayed in the worst sense of the concept, during the Holocaust of WWII. During this time, multiple groups of people, most notably European Jews, were persecuted against and sent to horrible hard labor and killing centers such as Auschwitz. In this memoir, Wiesel uses complex figurative language such as similes and metaphors to display the theme that a person’s state as a human, both at a physical and emotional level, can be altered to extreme lengths, and even taken away from them, under the most extreme conditions.
Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, describes the horrors of focusing on your own survival. Certain acts provoke inhumane acts throughout the ordeal. A central theme in Night is, even though it’s difficult, people should value compassion over their own survival. For instance, the evil of a lack of compassion affects thousands of prisoner lives.