Jillian Alexander Mrs. Lafferty English 11 April 24, 2023 Constant Dehumanization In Elie Wiesel’s Night, Elie went through many struggles in concentration camps along with his father. He writes about his experience and everything he was forced to go through as a teenager, including him losing his faith, constant dehumanization, and many more. The most impactful theme in the memoir was the inhumanity to man. It was slowly developed throughout the story that Elie and many others were being dehumanized which Elie explains through literary devices and character actions. Wiesel first brings up the theme of Inhumanity by using literary devices, he compares his experiences to show how they were not seen as human anymore. Wiesel explains how the soldiers say “‘You… you… you… ‘ They pointed their fingers, the way one might choose cattle, or merchandise” (Wiesel 49). Wiesel uses a metaphor to compare the way the soldiers are sorting through the Jews to picking cattle or going shopping. By saying this, he hints that they are no longer seen as human beings but as objects. This is important to show Man’s inhumanity to Man to prove how cruel the Soldiers actually were, which is what Wiesel is trying to say. …show more content…
Wiesel then explains “Then the entire camp, block after block, filed past the hanged boy and stared at extinguished eyes, the tongue hanging from his gaping mouth. The Kapos forced everyone to look him squarely in the face” (Wiesel 63). Wiesel uses the character actions of the Kapos to show how poorly they treated the Jews. The Kapos forced them to look at a hung little boy which was inhumane. Wiesel was showing how that little boy’s life did not even matter anymore, the Kapos just wanted to torture them. Wiesel is saying that since they were forced to look at a dead fellow prisoner in the eyes then it shows