Danielle MagenoMs. Lemau'uEnglish 1022 May 2014Dehumanization in the night"I was a body. Maybe even less: a hungry stomach. Only the stomach was aware of the passage of time." (Wiesel chapter 4). Eliezer Wiesel is a twelve-year-old Jewish boy who lived in Sighet around 1944. During this time, he witnessed the horrific and gruesome events of the Holocaust. In this state, he went through hell, experiencing things that changed him as a dark and brutal person. When someone is subjected to the kind of hell experienced in this way, they lose touch with who they were and turn into something brutal. The whole story itself is a dehumanizing crime from which this whole experience originated when the Jews were forced to dig trenches in which they would later die. It is really sad to see that their death was forced upon them. “Without passion or haste they shot their prisoners, who were forced to come closer. one by one into the trench and offer their heads” (Wiesel 6). “Newborns were thrown...