Inhumanity and Injustice in Night
Elie Wiesel’s novel, ‘Night’, gives the reader a clear indication of the perceptions of inhumanity that were painful and unbelievably real in the deaths camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. It also signifies the shocking injustice that human kind is capable of and also has to deliver. Throughout this experience, Elie witnesses many examples of inhumanity and injustice such as the concentration camps, starvation, beatings, torture, illness, hard labour and the slaughter of young children. ... " To have one’s entire spiritual beliefs destroyed in an instant second by witnessing such a horrible act of inhumanity and injustice would be torture alone for any person, but for the innocent Elie, this must have been earth shattering. ... ” Wiesel begins to learn just what humans are capable of on his first night in the camp.