Mankind's attraction to violence is a trait inherited from our ancestors the cave dwellers. Their life was lived in a primal kill or be killed society. The books Night written by Elie Wiesel and Hiroshima written by John Hersey bring this attitude into our common era. Both books depict how in a blink of an eye human nature can change, and turn violent. In Night, the story takes place in Germany during World War 2. It …
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…they weren't even human. They were stripped of everything that made them who they were, including there religion, which allot of Jews turned there backs on thanks to the treatment they received. Hitler basically forced the Germans into beating, killing and other brutal behavior on the people he believed were not special. Some of the treatment they received were, they were starved, badly beaten, tortured in ways like hard physical labor, and even being murdered.