Inhumanity
QUOTE 1: “I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .” Elie Wiesel.
Elie states this quote in the beginning of the book when they were entering the camps, and just opening their eyes up to what’s actually happening. Inhumanity plays all through the book, the Gestapo’s and Hungarian police treated the prisoners heartlessly. They were dehumanized given a number, stripped of all identity and self-worth then after “Selection” they were beaten, shot, and starved. The world pasted this event with a blank eye, and now again history repeats. ISIS is a group in Syria, Iraq and Iran setting off to create a only Islamic Country. Thus, this sets off a big massacre of innocent lives being involved in the event. Since Christians are the largest minority in Iraq they are the center of attention for ISIS. Masses of people that don’t fit with the Islamic faith are targeted. Overall the quote is really ironic toward the events that has happened, since humanity lets these events to happen these events are tolerated. We should acknowledge these acts and try preventing them in the future.
QUOTE 2: "Bela Katz- son of a big tradesman from our town- had arrived at Bierkenau with the first transport, a week before us. When heard of our arrival, he managed to get word to us that, having been chosen for his strength, he had himself put his father's body into the crematory oven"(33). Elie Wiesel
In the book Night, Elie Wiesel describes how the gestapo has broken people down to individuals. From the start the Jews would be trying to cling on to any family, but then slowly they would fall apart and the idea of individualism would seem more realistic to them. “In this place, it is every man for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even your father. Each of us lives and dies alone”(110). Blockalteste. This quote in the book is really stirring it so true to a point that there couldn’t have been hope. If it was this way everyone would have been torn and mentally disabled coming out. Think of it as a person separating themselves from love ones wanting nothing to do with them, and then finding out that all of his family has died. ISIS is the most cruelest towards anyone that’s not in the Islamic faith. Families have been separate and been known to kill each other to survive. These genocides are the most inhumane thing just thinking about how humans are the ones who commit them is so terrifying.
QUOTE 3: “Can this be true? This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent(118)? Elie Wiesel
After the Holocaust ended people discounted the event has ever happened. Elie quotes this during his Nobel Peace prize speech, this event was true and 40 years later after liberation Elie decides he shouldn’t hide his experience from the world. Doing so would be just as big of a crime than to commit it. Silence is the most powerful tool to the oppressors. Just like the Holocaust, ISIS, an event that started in 2004 wasn’t acknowledged until one of our own was killed and the U.S. is threatened by ISIS. For a small amount of people controlling huge groups of people the group ISIS, and people like Hitler knew that bystanders would be too afraid and the victims would be helpless because of fear, and identity loss they had withstood. If bystanders had taken account and enacted upon either events, then there wouldn’t be so many victims today.
QUOTE 4:“Then came the march past the victims. The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out,swollen and bluish. But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing...
And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes.And we were forced to look at him at close range. He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet extinguished.
Behind me, I heard the same man asking:
"For God's sake, where is God?"
And from within me, I heard a voice answer:
"Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows..."
That night, the soup tasted of corpses.” Elie Wiesel
This is yet the most bitter scene in the book, nothing can replace this horrifying memory. One so young boy being hung by the neck, suffering. The Gestapos in the camps wanted to set an example of what would happen to any inmates that dared to defy them. The group ISIS, did just the same thing to frighten those that wouldn’t convert. They slaughtered the American reporter from the U.S. to take action, but also to show those in Islam they are ruthless. This kind of set example to put others in fright has happened all over, the Holocaust was filled with people that didn’t feel like living anymore, but needed to live on just to keep a love one alive. They didn’t want to die, they held onto any hope they could spare. Acting to sabotage the leaders of the camp was way above more than they ever, because the main was to stay alive.
In the book Night, Elie Wiesel describes how the gestapo has broken people down to individuals. From the start the Jews would be trying to cling on to any family, but then slowly they would fall apart and the idea of individualism would seem more realistic to them. “In this place, it is every man for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even your father. Each of us lives and dies alone”(110). Blockalteste. This quote in the book is really stirring it so true to a point that there couldn’t have been hope. If it was this way everyone would have been torn and mentally disabled coming out. Think of it as a person separating themselves from love ones wanting nothing to do with them, and then finding out that all of his family has died. ISIS is the most cruelest towards anyone that’s not in the Islamic faith. Families have been separate and been known to kill each other to survive. These genocides are the most inhumane thing just thinking about how humans are the ones who commit them is so terrifying.
QUOTE 3: “Can this be true? This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent(118)? Elie Wiesel
After the Holocaust ended people discounted the event has ever happened. Elie quotes this during his Nobel Peace prize speech, this event was true and 40 years later after liberation Elie decides he shouldn’t hide his experience from the world. Doing so would be just as big of a crime than to commit it. Silence is the most powerful tool to the oppressors. Just like the Holocaust, ISIS, an event that started in 2004 wasn’t acknowledged until one of our own was killed and the U.S. is threatened by ISIS. For a small amount of people controlling huge groups of people the group ISIS, and people like Hitler knew that bystanders would be too afraid and the victims would be helpless because of fear, and identity loss they had withstood. If bystanders had taken account and enacted upon either events, then there wouldn’t be so many victims today.
QUOTE 4:“Then came the march past the victims. The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out,swollen and bluish. But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing...
And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes.And we were forced to look at him at close range. He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet extinguished.
Behind me, I heard the same man asking:
"For God's sake, where is God?"
And from within me, I heard a voice answer:
"Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows..."
That night, the soup tasted of corpses.” Elie Wiesel
This is yet the most bitter scene in the book, nothing can replace this horrifying memory. One so young boy being hung by the neck, suffering. The Gestapos in the camps wanted to set an example of what would happen to any inmates that dared to defy them. The group ISIS, did just the same thing to frighten those that wouldn’t convert. They slaughtered the American reporter from the U.S. to take action, but also to show those in Islam they are ruthless. This kind of set example to put others in fright has happened all over, the Holocaust was filled with people that didn’t feel like living anymore, but needed to live on just to keep a love one alive. They didn’t want to die, they held onto any hope they could spare. Acting to sabotage the leaders of the camp was way above more than they ever, because the main was to stay alive.