Night has many themes, and I agree that a lot of them are extremely depressing. Individuality does not come to mind immediately. The theme of individuality comes up further into the book. When the Jewish people were in the concentration camps, they were all dressed the same, and were worked to the bone. They were not individuals by appearance; however, they were all individuals inside. They all had their own families so if one disregard appearance they were all individual.
I also agree that individuality is a trait that is prevalent in all humans. We do love to be individuals; however, the people who were forced into the camps were deprived their sense of individuality. It was not fair that this group of people lost their humanity and was treated like monsters for no apparent reason. It seemed they all had to wear the yellow star as a symbol of ownership by the Nazis, which diminished their sense of individuality even further. This part of the book reminded me of the way that the characters of the first Apple commercial looked. They were very gray, sad, “conformed” people who did not have the ability to dress freely. Then that woman runs up who is dressed in color, and it showed her freedom to think and dress the way that she wanted.
The Nazi
themselves looked and acted a lot like robots, without individuality and
lacking the seemingly common instincts or being human to other humans.
They dressed the same, and followed the orders that they were given.
It is true; they were humans, which made it hard for me to understand why
they were able to commit so many horrible things. Was it because they
were just following orders, or did they feel sympathy at all?
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