Examples Of Injustice In Night By Elie Wiesel

David Tejada
Mrs. Jass 4/5
CHELA
17 April 2023
Despair
“It’s over. God is no longer with us.” (Wiesel 76). Elie Wiesel said this in the book Night to signify the true despair he was experiencing. Night centered around WWII and Hitler, a notorious dictator filled with destruction, death, and delusion that killed six million innocent Jews. During his reign of terror over Europe during World War II, he created one of the world's worst mass genocides. With no remorse, he was able to murder millions. It seemed unethical and illegal. It seemed inhumane. It seemed impossible. However, by slowly treating Jews worse and worse, making them feel as if they were subhuman with the help of propaganda, and luring Jews into their trap, Hitler and the Nazis

At the book's beginning, people can notice an event when Elie’s family experiences the true brutality of what was happening. For example, people can see that Wiesel's family and the other Jews were segregated when they were forced to wear the Star of David. Nevertheless, even with this, Wiesel’s family is oblivious to what happened, “The yellow star? So what? It's not lethal ..." (Wiesel 11). Secondly, they separated Jews from the rest of society, which did not allow the Jews to learn about what was happening and what would happen to them later on. Jews from all around Europe got separated from their friends and families and sent to ghettos where they were treated like dirt and lived in horrendous living conditions with very scarce food, water, and resources. An example of this working elsewhere is seen at the beginning of Dr. Seuss's The Sneetches, in which the people looked down upon (The Starless) were treated much worse than those with the stars on their bellies. For example, while the stars got to sit around the campfire and eat their food, the starless were kept out of the circle and kicked away when they wanted to use the campfire for cooking sausage. This discrimination can be compared to the deportation of the Jews into the ghettos to separate them and treat them worse, like the

Firstly, people could see that they were liquidating entire ghettos and forcing Jews into work camps. “The ghetto was to be liquidated entirely.” (Wiesel 13). This deportation immensely assisted the Nazis in their goal of killing off the Jewish since this allowed them to have all the Jews that they found undesirable in one place and allowed the Nazis to have a place where they could commit mass killing easily and without trouble. These murders are one of the main reasons why the Nazis were able to murder so many people with ease. This brutality was also seen in The Terrible Things, when the “Terrible Things” came to get rid of the animals that they found were annoying and that they did not want any more in the forest. This discrimination is related because it is a carbon copy of the viewpoint the Nazis had in their mind. The Nazis found that the Jewish were undesirable and annoying, so they took them away and segregated them from the rest of humanity to ensure they were not annoying. Additionally, the Jewish were able to murder many people because of their deadly transportation conditions. It was able to be seen that in the first part of Night, Jews can be seen dying exceptionally rapidly. These fast deaths were due to observing that Wiesel and the other Jews in the ghetto they lived in were