Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in a small town in Romania. He and his family felt right at home surrounded by a highly populated Jewish community. Wiesel lead a privileged life, centered around education and religion. That is, until the Nazi soldiers came to collect him, along with his family and friends as a teenager. The gathered Jewish people from his community were sent to Auschwitz Concentration Camp where many devastating events took place in the life of Wiesel and thousands of other Jews. Wiesel later moved to do incredible things, surviving the camp, writing dozens of successful poems and books, and becoming a social rights advocate around the world. (Berenbaum, n.p) His course through life influenced all of his writings, and impacted
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He realizes the efforts that Hitler went through to devise the Jewish Holocaust. Later in his life, he writes “Hate is an action. Hate takes time. Hate takes energy. And even it demands sacrifices.” (Wiesel n.p). The influence of his writing is the realization that hatred was so effective it killed millions of people in a short period of time. He realized how powerful this could be, and how powerful human action could be to change that. He is able to define hate as a human action because he had experienced it to the point where his ideals can no longer be biased. Human action can be described as poetic justice or rather poetic injustice in this case. Hatred has a negative cognition to it, but was unjustly rewarded. The Nazi’s could be seen as rewarded for their actions (imprisoning the Jews) while the Jews were being punished for practicing their religion.. Wiesel knew this to be an unfit retribution or reward for their actions. Through poetic justice, he could express that. Wiesel also wrote; “But indifference to hatred is encouraging hatred.” (Wiesel n.p). The reader can infer here that Wiesel was hoping during his time in the concentration camp that someone would be able to stand up to the Nazis and come rescue him and his fellow captives, much like the American soldiers did later in his life. Through this hoping, Wiesel was able to learn that human action can make a difference and could have ended the violence of the Holocaust. He was able to learn from those mistakes and speak out as a social rights activist encouraging people to take action against hatred. (Dove n.p) The poetic justice written here could single-handedly express the influence of Elie Wiesel’s views of human action. The events which occurred through human action in Wiesel’s life, enabled him to create works influenced by poetic justice and an intense understanding of what that
He realizes the efforts that Hitler went through to devise the Jewish Holocaust. Later in his life, he writes “Hate is an action. Hate takes time. Hate takes energy. And even it demands sacrifices.” (Wiesel n.p). The influence of his writing is the realization that hatred was so effective it killed millions of people in a short period of time. He realized how powerful this could be, and how powerful human action could be to change that. He is able to define hate as a human action because he had experienced it to the point where his ideals can no longer be biased. Human action can be described as poetic justice or rather poetic injustice in this case. Hatred has a negative cognition to it, but was unjustly rewarded. The Nazi’s could be seen as rewarded for their actions (imprisoning the Jews) while the Jews were being punished for practicing their religion.. Wiesel knew this to be an unfit retribution or reward for their actions. Through poetic justice, he could express that. Wiesel also wrote; “But indifference to hatred is encouraging hatred.” (Wiesel n.p). The reader can infer here that Wiesel was hoping during his time in the concentration camp that someone would be able to stand up to the Nazis and come rescue him and his fellow captives, much like the American soldiers did later in his life. Through this hoping, Wiesel was able to learn that human action can make a difference and could have ended the violence of the Holocaust. He was able to learn from those mistakes and speak out as a social rights activist encouraging people to take action against hatred. (Dove n.p) The poetic justice written here could single-handedly express the influence of Elie Wiesel’s views of human action. The events which occurred through human action in Wiesel’s life, enabled him to create works influenced by poetic justice and an intense understanding of what that