Argumentative Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel

To many people, the Holocaust may seem like it was a spur of the moment event an immediate, “Throw all the Jews in the camps.” But the Holocaust was initiated through small steps, and it only continued and happened because people remained silent. They forgot that they could speak up, or they chose to ignore what was happening, because Germany was in a bad state, and it might not have seemed so bad for Hitler to make a few comments about Jews if it got their lives back on track. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the inmates in the concentration camps repeatedly say how Hitler is going to “keep his promise.” That’s the only thing they seem confident enough about to believe in. Many inmates had lost their hope and lost their faith because they didn’t see any reason to continue when they were being broken over and over again. Families were broken up, sons and daughters sometimes had to watch their parents die, or leave them behind for self-preservation. They were starved and went through strenuous labor; they were mentally and physically tortured. The Holocaust broke so many people, in so many ways, and it’s inhumane for people to possibly let events like it happen again. But the people tend to overlook signs of future atrocities like the Holocaust, and then don’t speak up when they need to. …show more content…
As it grew more and more severe, people continued to remain silent, until they didn’t have the choice any more. Genocide takes time to develop into something people feel it’s necessary to take action against; but by that point it’s too late. People don’t realize when such bad things are being done because it doesn’t seem so bad at first. An identifier may not seem that bad, or just taking away one group of people, since it may not affect you personally. But then those identifiers and groups expand and keep growing, and there’s no one left to fight when you need them to fight for