How Is Night Dehumanized

“Night” Author Elie Wiesel in “Night” maintains a depressing tone while writing about his experience that took place when he was twelve years old. Wiesel and his family, along with many other Jews, were abducted by the Nazi’s and held hostage in concentration camps by the notorious leader, Adolf Hitler. Wiesel and all the other Jews were completely dehumanized. He said, “He felt naked as a Jew.” Hitler and the Nazi’s monopolized the situation, making all Jews feel degraded, that lead to the deaths of millions of Jews. In the book “Night”, the Jews had to overcome extreme difficulties due to the dehumanizing feeling that was created by the Nazi’s. Wiesel stated, “We did not know what to do. Tired of huddling on the ground, in hope of finding something, a piece of bread, perhaps, that a civilian might have forgotten there” …show more content…
That is all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of our parents. Only bread. And ever when we were no longer hungry, not one of us thought of revenge” (115). This sentence definitely depicts misery and reveals that the Jews, who were fortunate to survive the reigns of Hitler and the Nazi’s, carry upon them many emotions and scars that cannot be erased but are etched permanently into their minds. Captivity, concentration camp, Hitler and the Nazi’s are not just words with little or no meaning. Instead, these words represent a time in history, one in which the Jews do not want to affiliate with its hardships. In the book, “Night”, the author, Elie Wiesel, writes how the life of a Jew during the reign of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi’s was miserable and will have an everlasting effect on the ones that made it out alive. Hitler achieved what he set out to do. That is, killing off almost all of the Jews. In fact, he killed millions by making them feel dehumanized which made the Jews not want to live for