How Can Literature Change the World?
Moral apathy refers to the lack of interest, feeling, concern and the total indifference towards doing what is right. Elie Wiesel’s “Night” is a deeply poignant and candid account of an autobiographical nature regarding his survival during the Holocaust. Rachael Carson’s “Silent Spring” exposed the hazardous effects of DDT, a commonly used pesticide on the natural world. Her work sparked a lot of debate and resulted in a modern environmental movement. Her scientific rigor and perspective created substantial depth that led to the debate within the scientific field and the broader world with regard to the effect of pesticides. This paper will discuss how both of these writers have struggled against moral apathy.
In the “Night” the author recounts of his life with his father in the concentration camps in Buchenwald and Auschwitz. He was deported to the Nazi German camps together with his mother, father, and sister. Their daily life was excruciating and they were poorly fed, brutally disciplined, and they were constantly struggling against the overwhelming despair. At one point in the story, Wiesel for a small infraction received 25 lashings with a whip. As the German army closed in, in 1945, Wiesel and his family were transported to Buchenwald where his youngest sister, father and mother …show more content…
Elie deals more on the inhumanity that exists among people such that a man would deny his fellow man food. Based on his experiences as a slave, Elie’s literature has served a great purpose in teaching people that they should be considerate of each other and they should not do that which they would not wish upon themselves. As for Carson, she is a voice to the voiceless. She speaks against the harmful effects of using pesticides yet there are many more forms of biological control methods that have not been fully
Moral apathy refers to the lack of interest, feeling, concern and the total indifference towards doing what is right. Elie Wiesel’s “Night” is a deeply poignant and candid account of an autobiographical nature regarding his survival during the Holocaust. Rachael Carson’s “Silent Spring” exposed the hazardous effects of DDT, a commonly used pesticide on the natural world. Her work sparked a lot of debate and resulted in a modern environmental movement. Her scientific rigor and perspective created substantial depth that led to the debate within the scientific field and the broader world with regard to the effect of pesticides. This paper will discuss how both of these writers have struggled against moral apathy.
In the “Night” the author recounts of his life with his father in the concentration camps in Buchenwald and Auschwitz. He was deported to the Nazi German camps together with his mother, father, and sister. Their daily life was excruciating and they were poorly fed, brutally disciplined, and they were constantly struggling against the overwhelming despair. At one point in the story, Wiesel for a small infraction received 25 lashings with a whip. As the German army closed in, in 1945, Wiesel and his family were transported to Buchenwald where his youngest sister, father and mother …show more content…
Elie deals more on the inhumanity that exists among people such that a man would deny his fellow man food. Based on his experiences as a slave, Elie’s literature has served a great purpose in teaching people that they should be considerate of each other and they should not do that which they would not wish upon themselves. As for Carson, she is a voice to the voiceless. She speaks against the harmful effects of using pesticides yet there are many more forms of biological control methods that have not been fully