Disregard For Human Life In Night By Elie Wiesel

The Disregard for Human Life At some point in everyone’s life, they have been brought to their lowest point, then kicked while down. Human life is precious, however some people feel inclined to take another human being’s life in their own hands and destroy it at their will. In Night, by author Elie Wiesel, Wiesel writes of the Holocaust and the terrors that came with it. He writes, “Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky” (32). This quote shows the cruelty of humans and the complete disregard for human life. It makes one wonder how some people could be so cold and heartless. This disregard for human life appears in social issues throughout the decades.

Indians were forced to make the 2,200 mile journey to Oklahoma to settle those lands. A map of the Trail of Tears shows the treacherous journey the Indians had to make. There are four trails that run through nine states, three land routes and one water route. Indians had to stop what they were doing and leave their homes because they were different from the whites. To white people, the Indians were property and they could do what they liked with them. In the article along with the map it speaks of the Indians and what they went through on the Trail of Tears. Williams wrote, “The Choctaws have had our habitations torn down and burned, our fences destroyed, cattle turned into our fields and we ourselves have been scourged, manacled, fettered and otherwise personally abused, until by such treatment some of our best men have died.” The whites had no respect for the Indian’s lives. If an Indian died on the trail, they were left to the buzzards. Even their best men died because of the deadly trail. Anyone can be persecuted and no one is safe from prejudice. Like the Indian’s persecution, women were the main target in human trafficking and once captured become slaves with no