Night
"A sunny spring day, people strolled seemingly greetings. Children played games, rolling hazelnuts on the sidewalks. Some schoolmates and I were in Ezra Malik's garden studying a Taldudic treatise"(12). Weisel uses positive connotative words to show how unaware the Jews are about the terror that will come their way. They are just acting their usual selves and not realizing that their lives are in danger. Weisel uses diction to contrast the good times in the day to the bad events in the night.
In Chapter 2, Weisel uses diction to show the reader some effects of dehumanization. "Mrs. Schachter had lost her mind"(24). This woman had lost her family to the Germans so she has been acting out of character and taking everything to heart. Weisel uses these words to catch the readers eye abot how being dehumanized can entirely change you.
In Chapter 3, Weisel uses parallelism to try to emphasize that he watched a lot of things at a young age. "Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky"(34). " This shows how Weisel has noticed a lot of cruel events in his life to where he was afraid to sleep or defend himself.
In Chapter 3 , Weisel shows the reader that the Jews were being dehumanized in the concentration camps. "I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name"(42). There individuality were being taken away from them by being called a number like everyone else without an unique name. The Germans tried to remove anything unique and any rights the Jews had to eliminate them completely.
The author uses imagery to juxtapose whether or not Wiesel is fully dehumanized. Wiesel acts differently in the 1st hanging than the 2nd which catches the readers eye. In Night it says, "I remember that on that evening, the soup tasted better than ever..."(63). This tells us that Wiesel had no compassion for the man who was hanged, but he was more worried about his hunger. In contrast it says, "Where He is?This is where- hanging here from this gallows...That night, the soup tasted of corpses"(65). Wiesel feels some type of a way during the second hanging by there being a child like himself being hung. He doesn't have sympathy for the other men that were hung along with the child but he has this gloomy tone when describing the child by using negative connotations. These 2 quotes contrast by Wiesel bring up the taste of the soup to make us realize that he had feelings in the second hanging rather than the first hanging. Dehumanization can be awaken by cruelty.
The effects of dehumanization are cruel and unbelievable when it come to dehumanization.
Heart of Darkness
Marlow is an unintentionally racist that uses micro-aggression. The author uses diction and tone to describe Marlow. In Heart of Darkness it says, "They shouted, sang; their bodies streamed with perspiration ; they had faces like grotesque masks... bone, muscle, and wild vitality, an intense energy of movement...(excerpt 3). Marlow observes the Africans in a way of animals to us but I don't think he purposefully meant it in that way. He wanted to acknowledge how interested he was in the Africans physical appearance. His response to something that he isn't familiar wasn't to think that he was superior. This example shows how he believes that the Africans are equal to humans. it says, "They were called criminals, and the outraged law, and the bursting shells, had come to them, an insoluble mystery from over the sea"(excerpt 3). Marlow felt some type of way towards how the white me came to Africans and placed their laws in Africa. Also, chain up Africans tat didn't commit any crime because it is their usual way of doing things. He had this sarcastic tone to reveal to us that the whites came basically not to colonize but also to torture the Africans.
The Africans in Heart of Darkness are dehumanized by their freedom being taken away. An African is chained up with a angry expression. It says "
Chinua Achebe
Achebe criticizes Conrad for writing literature that uses microaggressions that makes him a racist but not intentionally. It says,"It took different forms in the minds of different people but almost always managed to sidestep the ultimate question of equality between white people and black people (pg.4)." Conrad uses diction with negative connotation as he observe the Africans, but he moves around the topic of equality. He doesn't address equality when he uses descriptive language to compare the Africans to the Europeans.
Achebe reveals to us how Conrad uses Marlow to dehumanize Africans.It says,"His inordinate love of that word itself should be of interest to psychoanalysts. Sometimes his fixation on blackness is equally interesting as when he gives us this brief description...(pg.5). He describes Conrad in this negative way for using the term t hat described the black people in the past as dehumanization. This term being used is seen in people eyes ass black people less than.
Contemporary&Historical Research
-"What's happening in Syria?" by BBC Newsround and "Worst Chemical Attack in Years in Syria; Us Blames Assad" by Anne Bernard and Michael R. Gordon(https://nyti.ms/2oxHx20)
The events in Syria relate to dehumanization because the lives of the people are being taken. Like when the Syrian government responded angrily towards the protesters dehumanizes the people's freedom. "The government responded angrily and, on March 18 2011,the army opened fire on protesters , killing four people. The following the day, they shot at mourners at the victims' funerals,killing another person". This dehumanizes the victims by not having a proper funeral and leaving in respect. Also it says, "...showed children and older adults gasping and struggling to breathe , or lying motionless in the mud as rescue workers ripped off victims' clothes and hosed them down." The people struggling to live is hard to imagine when you've never even it before. This strips their happiness away as a human being.
The events in Syria relate to dehumanization because the lives of the people are being taken. Like when the Syrian government responded angrily towards the protesters dehumanizes the people's freedom. "The government responded angrily and, on March 18 2011,the army opened fire on protesters , killing four people. The following the day, they shot at mourners at the victims' funerals,killing another person". This dehumanizes the victims by not having a proper funeral and leaving in respect. Also it says, "...showed children and older adults gasping and struggling to breathe , or lying motionless in the mud as rescue workers ripped off victims' clothes and hosed them down." The people struggling to live is hard to imagine when you've never even it before. This strips their happiness away as a human being.
Objectification is a form of dehumanization.In "Kim Kardashian's Nude Photos and Saartjie's Choice:History's Problem with Fascinating Bodies"(Blaise), the author wrote, "Baartman would be made available for private showings in the homes of the wealthy where at extra cost, patrons would be allowed to touch her". Baartman was used as a sexual object which strips away her positive human qualities from herself. In comparison, the documentary "Miss Representation"(Newsoon), the women objectified in many ways. There can be things that objectified people that the viewers may not realized.