Dehumanization. Dehumanization is defined as taking away rights, characteristics, and emotions from people. If you take away these things you are really no longer human, dehumanization. You basically turn into an animal. In Night, the first experience the Jews have of this is when Germans enter their city and take it over. The Jews are forced to go along with whatever the Germans tell them and they have to obey ridiculous rules and ordinances. They cannot worship, sometimes they have to stay in their house for up to three days, they are not allowed in the streets after six in the afternoon, they had to wear a yellow star, they were not allowed to have anything of value such as gold, and then they were not even allowed in public places at all. Then it got a little worse. The town of Sighet was made into two ghettos. Everyone had to move in these two areas. They boarded up the windows and they also surrounded th

However it was a slow, long process. This was the Germans plan. Slowly take away their characteristics, rights, and emotions so that all hell does not brake loose with the Jews. By doing it slowly, the Jews think that, oh this is not so bad. Each time the Germans slowly progressed in their dehumanization, that is what the Jews said. Since the Germans used a slow process of dehumanization, the Jews adapted to it. If the Germans brought it all at once, there would have been a lot of Jews that fled the country and a lot of Jews that would have tried to escape while under German control. For example, in the spring of 1944, there was news that the Russians were closing in fast. The Jews said that the Russian's army was making gigantic strides, and that Hitler will not be able to do any harm to us, even if he wanted too. They surely did not think that he would be able to wipe out a whole people, and in the middle of the twentieth century. Also when the Germans took over Sighet, they were very nice. They stayed in Jewish homes and were very courteous to them. In a way the Germans would bring up the Jews, put them on a pedestal, before just bashing them down to where they are nothing.

The title of this book, in my opinion, fit perfectly. Throughout the whole experience of Eliezer in the novel, the one phrase that is often repeated is that this will be the last night of their imprisonment. They kept on, in a way, praising Hitler and having faith in him that he has and will keep his promise that the Jews will be free and not killed. Eliezer proclaimed the phrase, "the last night", at Sighet, Birkenau, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and finally Gleiwitz. That is what kept them alive. Just having fait

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