"Night" Reading Assignments

Dehumanization: The process of depriving a person or a group of people positive qualities.

1. Several people in the story began to lose many positive aspects to them, for example, Akiba Drumer used to be extremely into his religion, reciting pages and asking questions to himself and his god. But after many things he's gone through in Buna, he lost faith in his god and become useless, not even motivated to work no longer, leading him to be taken to the crematory to be killed. Other jews too has lost themselves, becoming more depressed and even going in fits of rage, beating each other.

2. Eliezer changes in his father first, seeing him work less, and being off beat in marching. This caused Eliezer to be pissed off at his father, rather than the person who was beating him. Eliezer disregards most events that happens, gritting his teeth when subject to abuse from other inmates, and even making comments on why people are giving up, practically taking pity on them.