the theme of night

The theme of night I think is that the cruelty of man is unknown. The level of human cruelty can be pushed to an unknown extent when the situation provokes it. Some accounts of this inhuman cruelty is when the guards at the camp were throwing innocent babies into the fire,and the unnesissary brutality of the gaurds in the camps to the prisioners.I feel the theme teaches us that we need to learn from the Holocaust of the cruelty of man so we can understand how inhuman and cruel people can become. With understanding this we can try to make sure such an atrocity never happens again.

The theme of night I think is that the cruelty of man is unknown. The level of human cruelty can be pushed to an unknown extent when the situation provokes it. I feel the theme teaches us that we need to learn from the Holocaust of the cruelty of man so we can understand how inhuman and cruel people can become. With understanding this we can try to make sure such an atrocity never happens again.

Number 3= Stein of Antwep was a small fellow with spectles in a wizened face. Stein was Reizel's husband, Elie's moms was rezeils aunt. Stein was curius on how his children are doing, wondering if Elie's dad had heard any news of them. I feel that this shows that this is happening in other places not just in Sighet.
-family member
-wanted to know about family
-Elie lies saying that they were ok and happy
-Stein eventually dies because of knowing truth.

1=Concentration Camps= sky hazy with smoke.
-flames-crematoriums
-transformation in the prision garb
-gray and dark
-babies in the fire
-peoples face turn to ash
-nocturnal silence

2= Dehumanization=
-shaved heads
-all expected to wear prison garb
-made stand in mud
-tattooed numbers-lost name
-removed objects from
-people were objects
-detached from family
-make them run to be overcome by fatique/loose train of thought
-had to deal with death themselves




Kyle Putney