The Dark Life
When you think of injustice what pops up into your mind? Well, in the
autobiography, Night, by Elie Wiesel, he explains how he has suffered from injustice.
Injustice is a big issue in this world. A major issue is skin color, and for being different.
There are world maps of Genocides that show where people were tortured and killed. It is
hard to believe that in this world, innocent people were tortured and killed for no good
reason. Fighting for justice is still the issue today. Injustice is when you are helpless,
discriminated, and suffering.
Being helpless plays a great role in injustice. Most of the time people are helpless
when they are encumbered, "And I realized that it was when my father who was sick …show more content…
I let him die."
(Winfrey, 3). In detail, Wiesel was helpless he could not help his wizened father, because
if he had helped his father he would be punished bestially. Important to realize, the Jews
were so helpless that they could not even help their loved ones, "Called through the
empty streets...my name. I looked at the gallows soaring tall and thought ... there's no one
left at all" (Ogden, 1). To point out, the helpless boy is left alone in the gallows to be
hung in remorse, because he finally realized that standing up for yourself alone is not the
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same as standing up with your compatriots. In any case, the only way to fight being
helpless is by finding support before it is too late.
Moreover, the number one reason people suffer from injustice is because of
discrimination. Being discriminated is when a specific ethnicity is not accepted. People
from that point on then are treated as things, not humans, "But new edicts were already
being issued. We no longer had the right to frequent restaurants of cafés, to travel by rail,
to attend synagogue, to be on the streets after six o'clock in the evening. Then came
When you think of injustice what pops up into your mind? Well, in the
autobiography, Night, by Elie Wiesel, he explains how he has suffered from injustice.
Injustice is a big issue in this world. A major issue is skin color, and for being different.
There are world maps of Genocides that show where people were tortured and killed. It is
hard to believe that in this world, innocent people were tortured and killed for no good
reason. Fighting for justice is still the issue today. Injustice is when you are helpless,
discriminated, and suffering.
Being helpless plays a great role in injustice. Most of the time people are helpless
when they are encumbered, "And I realized that it was when my father who was sick …show more content…
I let him die."
(Winfrey, 3). In detail, Wiesel was helpless he could not help his wizened father, because
if he had helped his father he would be punished bestially. Important to realize, the Jews
were so helpless that they could not even help their loved ones, "Called through the
empty streets...my name. I looked at the gallows soaring tall and thought ... there's no one
left at all" (Ogden, 1). To point out, the helpless boy is left alone in the gallows to be
hung in remorse, because he finally realized that standing up for yourself alone is not the
Kaur 2
same as standing up with your compatriots. In any case, the only way to fight being
helpless is by finding support before it is too late.
Moreover, the number one reason people suffer from injustice is because of
discrimination. Being discriminated is when a specific ethnicity is not accepted. People
from that point on then are treated as things, not humans, "But new edicts were already
being issued. We no longer had the right to frequent restaurants of cafés, to travel by rail,
to attend synagogue, to be on the streets after six o'clock in the evening. Then came