Essays on The Night

To dehumanize someone is to “deprive them of positive human qualities”. During the Holocaust, the Nazis used several techniques to dehumanize the Jews. This was done so that the Nazi soldiers, and the Jews themselves would start to see them as ‘things’ rather than as people. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, there are several examples of the Nazi’s attempts to dehumanize Elie and his fellow Jews. The three best examples of this are; taking the identity of the Jews away, failing to provide the Jews with ...

Alex La Guma is a colored South African writer whose work was mainly aimed at capping the injustices and ill-treatment that the apartheid system posed on the native blacks and other minority groups. He was born in 1925 in District Six, a neighborhood that was shared by blacks and coloreds (Abrahams 83). This district is also the setting of this story. His father, Jimmy La Guma, was an active political activist and trade unionist by the time La Guma was born. He was very active in different ...

Hatred means ill will toward something or someone. During World War 2, hatred was at its peak where people were categorized and ridiculed based upon their ethnicity and cultural beliefs. Using vivid imagery and uncensored language, Elie Wiesel revolutionized the world’s perspective of the unspeakable atrocities of the Holocaust by writing his own personal experiences of surviving the unknown prejudice.Elie and his dad's relationship isn't generally excellent. It doesn't mirror a solid ...

Elie Wiesel, born Elise Wiesel, was brought into this world in Romania on September 30th, 1928 to parents Sarah Feig and Shlomo Wiesel. Later on in his life, he and his parents, along with his three sisters, were forced into the Jewish death camps during World War II. This horrible event, now known as the Holocaust, led to over six million lives being lost in an attempt to eliminate all Jews, along with other undesired minorities. His mother and the youngest of the three sisters died in ...

Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928. When Elie was 15; he and his family were forced to Nazie death camps. After the war, Elie went to a french orphanage where he stayed for a couple of years. For 10 years he made a vow that he would not say a word about anything of his experience in the camps. In 1948, he began to study at the Sorbonne in Paris. He spent his years writing in French newsletters and wrote over 30 books about his experience in the Nazi death camps.On April 2, 1969, Elie ...