Dignity in the Face of Inhumane Cruelty "We were people but treated like animals" says Elie Wiesel, author of Night. Night tells about a boys struggle to keep himself and his father alive in Auschwitz, but in the end only Elie can survive. Wiesel exemplifies the theme of having dignity in the face of inhumane cruelty by Chlomo not fighting back after beaten, killing each other for crumbs of bread, and eating snow off of each other's backs with a spoon.
First, during the book Night, Elie and his father are receiving beatings from SS officers and kapos and through the time when they were beaten, they never fought back or acted like savages. When Chlomo received the beatings, he said to Elie,"it doesn't hurt." Chlomo is keeping Elie from stepping up and acting like a savage or fighting that man. By Chlomo not fighting back, it displays their dignity in the face of inhumane cruelty.
Also, another way that the whole Jewish community showed that they still had some dignity through inhumane cruelty was eating snow off each other's backs. They could have just reach with their arms and shoved their face with the snow but instead they chose to act like human people and eat it like civili...
