Examples Of Dehumanization In The Book Night

Dehumanization in “Night” is represented in the discrimination and deniance of simplest human necessities. Hitler developed his hatred for the Jewish religion after WWI, believing that they were the source of Germany’s economic decline. Jews also seemed an easy target to blame due to history’s track record of antisemitic views dating back to Ancient Egypt. Hitler created concentration camps, factories of death, to eradicate Jews because Hitler thought they were inferior. This discrimination took place in countless places through the book; one, for example, when the Jewish ghettos were being liquidated everyone was forced to remain within their lines; they were denied water all day while standing in the blasting heat of the sun. Elie observed,

Why would someone do something so unspeakable? Decades since, the world has made an effort to learn from that tragedy and educate new generations to prevent such an event from happening again. The forms of dehumanization seen during the Holocausts were at a level of extreme that society, luckily doesn’t see on such a scale in our modern world, but the world does still struggle with providing everyone their most basic rights. Currently in Delhi, India, children are being stolen and forced to work in sweatshops. Their parents are told they are going to receive a better education at a distant school, while in reality the children sit in a cramped 6ft by 6ft room creating Christmas decorations for as much as 19 hours a day. “Children in dingy basements, without air, food, without proper care, being forced into child labor for all these hours of the day” (Children Freed From Sweatshop Article). The children were restricted from living a fulfilling happy life; they had little food, love, or sleep. They were no longer children, they were a human machine, an assembly line, used to make profit. Another example of dehumanization in the modern world in happening in the Philippines. Leader of the country, President Rodrigo Duterte, has put into action the genocide of drug users. He believes that the three million drug users within his country should be put to death because they use