Examples Of Dehumanization In Night

Night Response

Throughout the story Night I have learned so much about the three types of dehumanization. The three types of dehumanization are mental, physical, and emotional. They all affect humans in some sort of way and I got the experience of the reading this book by Elie Wiesel and learning about them.

The first type of dehumanization is mental. Mental dehumanization is one of the worst kinds because it messes with the human mind and the way it works. Without the human mind functioning correctly, it is hard for a person to do any task. There could also be the possibility of becoming mentally ill, which would affect the behavior, social skills, or perception of a person. Not only does mental dehumanization affect someone mentally, but

Physical dehumanization is when a person gets hurt physically. For example, a bully beating up a kid is physical dehumanization or in Eliezer’s case he was whipped by the Kapo twenty-five times and the Kapo said, “So much for your curiosity. You shall receive five times more (whips) if you dare tell anyone what you saw” (Wiesel 58). Eliezer is whipped into not telling what the Kapo is doing with a woman while the rest of the Kommando is working. This type of dehumanization can make someone not tell a secret or it can simply just be an intimidation act. Physical dehumanization is very brutal on the body and in certain cases can immobilize the body. Reading through the types of physical dehumanization within the book made me cringe, but it opened my eyes to what happens to some

Emotional dehumanization is when a person goes through psychological trauma. Emotional dehumanization makes a person feel various ways, such as depressed or vengeful. What helped me learn what emotional dehumanization was was a section in the book when Elie Wiesel writes, “I stood petrified. What happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent” (Wiesel 38). Eliezer wanted to make the man who hit his dad rue, but he suffered a psychological trauma where he wanted to do something about it because it was his own father getting struck by a man, but he could not due to the fact he stood there petrified. I would not want to be in the same situation Eliezer was ever because I would keep on thinking about what I could do to make the man who hit my dad suffer and every day I would feel depressed and vengeful. Furthermore, Night has taught me a variety of things, but mostly about