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Animal Imagery In Night And A Raisin In The Sun

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The idea that a movement can be so impactful that a whole society can change and influence other countries is one of the scariest things a person can hear. If this movement grows, the entire planet can be in danger. This happened with the Eugenics Movement and the racial laws they inspired. This research paper examines Edwin Black’s article, “Hitler’s Debt to America,” in which he shows how the Eugenics movement and how America helped influence this movement in other countries. The following paragraph will connect the Dehumanization and animal imagery in Elie Wiesel and Robert Nemiroff’s books “Night “and “A Raisin in the Sun.” These two authors portray the amount of animal imagery and Dehumanization occurring in these two different countries. …show more content…

In the book Night and A Raisin in the Sun, they both shared the animal but were used in different situations. “The SS made is increase our pace.” Faster, you tramps, you flea-ridden dogs!” (85). This textual evidence shows how the SS officers were not even treating the Jews as humans; they were dehumanizing and mistreating them, causing them to have a loss of self and think about what they were doing. “Well, Lord knows, we’ve put enough rent into this here rat trap to pay for four houses by now” (44). This quote shows how Ruth was getting tired of the living situation they had been living their whole life and spending money on something that did not feel like home. In the book “Night,” the SS officers kept mistreating the Jews and still dehumanizing them to the point that they did not even feel like humans anymore; they felt like robots that kept going and never stopped. “Faster, you filthy dogs!” We were no longer marching; we were running.Like automatons”(85).This text shows that the Jews did not feel like they had feelings or even knew what they were doing; they just kept running to the point that they just felt like robots obeying commands. In the book “A Raisin in the Sun” shows how Travis tells Beneatha to leave the cockroaches because they are not bothering her. “Leave them poor little cockroaches alone, they ain’t bothering you none” (55). The text shows how the animal imagery on the roaches symbolizes the living conditions the Youngers had to live in. With all the evidence shown through these two books, It shows how the animal imagery used in these books were made to show Discrimination, Dehumanisation, and Persecution occurring throughout

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