Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

There are many things that people in current and past society take for granted, such as housing, food, and freedom. The thing that is important to remember though, is that these things that people take for granted are all a part of their basic human rights. Human rights means the rights which every human being owns. Thought, after many years of defining these rights also a few people are not applying to them and a few people are all set to violate them. It is not possible for human rights to be actualized because people are treated cruelly. A reason that human rights are not being actualized is because physical cruel treatment has been happening. In the narrative Night, the physical cruel treatment happening is to many people that are in the camps. For example, Eliezer Wiesel was

On your belly!... I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip” (Wiesel 57). This is really showing the physical cruel treatment happening to Elie and to be said he was whipped about twenty-five times. This is showing that human rights are not being actualized in any way. Whipping people to almost death is nowhere near showing actualization on human rights. This is for sure going against the article number 5 in the universal declaration, “Nobody has any right to hurt us or to torture us”. As human beings if we have done nothing wrong even if we did anything wrong we have no right to be physically abused. Another example is when Elie Wiesels father states when Elie asked if he had eaten, “They didn’t give us anything… they said that we were sick, that we would die soon, and that it would be a waste of food” (Wiesel 107). This proves that the physical cruel treatment is happening to human rights because they are not being fed when they do not