The word or idea of humanity can be described as human nature or the act of being human. And being human is simply defined as having characteristics of man. Through Elie Wiesel’s Night, the term of humanity seems to take on a whole new meaning.
Throughout this book, a young, Jewish boy is ripped away from his mother and sister and everything that he knows and forced to encounter a Nazi death camp. Luckily, Eliezer and his father were able to stay together for most of this unspeakable account. That is until he witnessed the death of his father towards the end of the book.
In my eyes, this book reveals a lot of what humanity isn’t. To treat someone in such a way is anything but humane. The Jews obviously had some human characteristics, yet they were being denied civilized treatment. They were tortured and forced to work with little or no food, and many of them were killed or massacred. I think this book reveals what little consideration the Nazi’s took to acknowledge the humanity in the Jewi
sh people. The Bible commands us to love our neighbors as ourselves, and this is definitely not the way to do it. The Nazi’s were recognizing themselves as the superior race, yet in God’s eyes, we’re all the same. Frankly, I am disgusted at the thought of a group of people playing God and being capable of taking other people’s lives in such a way.
I think that this situation is such a travesty. A lot of people in the world do the same thing with their faith. It’s all good until something goes wrong or isn’t what they want it to be. Religion is only a convenience to them. Granted this boy went through trials and tribulations that I hope and pray none of us have to go through in our lifetime. But our faith and trust in God should give us hope and should encourage us. It’s something that we should hold on to and take comfort in when times get rough. Christ never said that it would be easy; look at all the pain that He endured. Even when things looked bad, the persecuted Christians stood their
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