Elie Wiesel Book Report

Elie Wiesel was a man who endured the worst conditions during the holocaust. During the holocaust Wiesel was beaten, starved and almost worked to death and that's only the beginning. When Wiesel and his father arrived at the camps he was separated from his mother and sister and they were prosecuted on the spot. Elie was so young and he had the endure the most harsh conditions for a boy of his age. In the end he had to make changes, give up his religion and even make the choice of letting his father go. These are things that a boy should not go through. Elie Wiesel’s purpose for writing his book was not to make you feel bad but to make you, us EVERYONE aware of what he went through so something like that never come about again. He wanted to make sure that people didn't just sit back and relax while this kind of happening in the world. “Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tortured and sometimes we must interfere”. When a country sits in silence and allows a WHOLE ethnicity group to just get murdered and almost risk extinction then there needs to be something done. When silence is all that you do, you're giving the antagonist, the bad …show more content…
“there is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention; victims of hunger, of racism, and political persecution”. The people that are just like the jewish people have been crying and suffering for the longest time but no one wants to listen. And for what reason? Are they scared everyone will ignore them also? Are they scared they too will receive injustice? Or are they just plain and outright stubborn. People on every continent are receiving unfair treatment and no one wants to help and these people have no reason as to why they aren't helping.“ human rights are being violated on every continent, more people oppressed than