Dehumanization In Eliezer Wiesel's Night

“One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.” Dehumanization. They exposed them to so much death and suffering, and made them numb to it. Because they couldn’t cry, they couldn’t mourn, or they would be the ones in the gas chambers. In the memoir Night, a boy and his father are slowly stripped of their innocence, faith, and will to go on. someone who has not experienced it in the past to break down, and, react.
Innocence. When one thinks of the word they most often think of young children. Not exposed to all of the hate and sadness in the world. But Eliezer Wiesel, at the age of 15, was stripped of even that. “Where is He? Here He is--He is hanging here on this gallows." In the camps, he was exposed to the epitome of human hatred, and that immediately stole away his innocence."When they withdrew, next to me were two corpses, side by side, the father and the son. I was fifteen years old." Again, he is exposed to this death and hatred, and forced to accept it as life. Two dead, next to him. He was forced to have no emotion. No feeling. At this point he is completely devoid of innocence, and, in a way, he is extremely wise. Never again will he be naive, because he knows the …show more content…
It dwells among food, water, and shelter in the basic needs of survival."After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more." His father died during the last stages of his dehumanization process. After this, he became unable to express most emotions. Anger was forbidden, sadness was gone, and happiness was foreign. He was numb. "Do you see that chimney over there? See it? Do you see those flames? (Yes, we did see the flames.) Over there-that's where you're going to be taken. That's your grave, over there." It was so close, just right there, a riot, or a collapse or hunger strike away. The only thing that could result from staying alive, is more torture. More death. So easy to just let go. Without any will to live, there is no reason to

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