1.
Dehumanization means
to deprive of personality or interest. Or to remove a persons individuality.
A.
In the beginning of
the story, Eleizer had a very strong faith in his God. He would constantly pray
to him and praise him. But towards the middle of the book, Eleizer, and some
other prisoners, begins to lose faith. He no longer believes or praises his
God. Also, in the beginning, the prisoners were more scared. They would sob and
wonder why they were at the camps. But in the middle, they got more familiar
with the things they were seeing. They got used to all the killing that they
didn't respond much to it compared to how they did before.
B.
Like I said earlier,
Eleizer stops believing in his God. He see's all these people being murdered,
and abused. When he sees that people are still praying for God, he thinks
that they're stupid for praying.
2.
"Why should I
bless him? In every fiber I rebelled. Because he had thousands of children
burned in pits? Yes, man is very strong, greater than God. When you were
deceived by Adam and Eve, You drove them out of Paradise. When Noah's
Generation displeased You, You brought down the flood. But these men here, whom
You have betrayed, whom You have allowed to be tortured, butchered,
gassed, burned, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise Your name!
(page 64)", Eliezer says
angrily. He is upset that throughout all that they've been through,
God still hasn't gone to save any of them. He's still allowing them to be
tortured. He no longer believes in this "God". "Its the
end. God is no longer with us. Where is the divine mercy? Where is God? How can
I believe, how anyone believe, in this merciful God? (page
73)," one man said. He
too was losing faith in God.
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