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  • Essay / Wiesel's Nocturnal Essays: Dehumanization in the Night - 543

    Danielle MagenoMs. Lemau'uFrench 10May 22, 2014Dehumanization in the night“I was a body. Maybe even less than that: a hungry stomach. Only the stomach was aware of the passage of time. » (Wiesel chapter 4). Eliezer Wiesel is a twelve-year-old Jew. boy living in Sighet around 1944. During this time he witnessed the gruesome and horrific events of the Holocaust. In this state, he went through hell, experiencing things that changed him as a person. As Eliezer's story continues, it only becomes more pronounced. dark and brutal. When someone is subjected to the type of hell experienced in this way, they lose touch with who they were and transform into something brutal. The whole story itself is a dehumanizing crime. Of this whole experience, it was when the Jews were forced to dig trenches in which they would later die. It's really sad to see that their death was forced on them. “Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach. the trench one by one and offer their necks” (Wiesel 6). “Infants were thrown...