What is being intolerance, exactly? To be intolerant is not liking when someone is different, and wanting everybody to act in the same way. In the book Night, there are many examples where intolerance is shown. One example of intolerance shown is religious bigotry. This is clearly illustrated in the whole of Night. Examples that especially illustrate religious bigotry, is the killing of prisoners that did not meet the standards that Nazis made. The Nazis killed prisoners who did not meet their standards. Night is an account of a young's man suffering from a man's ignorance, inhumanity and intolerance towards others. "Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven." (Henry VI Act 4, Scene 7; Shakespeare) Ignorance could be a good or bad thing. In the account of Night, ignorance is a bad thing. It is shown in the Nazis, but it is shown in the Jews too. It shown in how the Jews treated Moishe the Beadle after he returned from his deportation. Moshie was a prophet. He came back to warn the others so they had some time before it was too late. But instead, he was shunned, scorned and shut out from his own community. "He spoke only of what he had seen. But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen. Some even insinuated that he only wanted his pity, that he was imagining things. Others flatly said that he had gone mad." (Wiesel, 7) This quote shows the Jews unawareness, ignorance and naiveté to what was going to happen to them. .
Moral-blindness is shown everywhere in Night. It's displayed through the treatment of the Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and the mentally and physically disabled during World War 2. It's displayed through Elie's suffering at camps. One example I want to focus on is Mrs. Schächter and how she was treated. When Elie was in the cattle car, his family was placed with Ms. Schächter. On the third night of transport, she started to scream, "Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire!" (Wiesel, 24) At first everyone pitied her but then as the days dreadfully dragged on for them, her screams became nerve-wracking.