Indifference means lack of interest, concern, or sympathy, and currently there is a lot of indifference going .In both Niemöller’s “First They Came…” poem and Elie Wiesel’s “The Perils of Indifference” speech they talk about indifference and apathetic Niemöller and Elie Wiesel use literary devices in “First They Came…” and “The Perils of Indifference” to express the speakers’ apathetic and indifferent attitude. Even though Niemöller’s poem and Elie Wiesel’s speech talk about indifference and apathy, and the literary devices given in the both works give the reader a better understanding of the poem and the speech. In Niemöller’s “First They Came…”, it contains literary devices, like diction, syntax, and repetition to convey Niemöller’s message
