Perils Of Indifference

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Between “Night” and “The Perils of Indifference”, “The Perils of Indifference” is much more powerful. The reason the “The Perils of Indifference” is more powerful is because the speech is made to teach a moral to the world on the dangers of indifference whereas the book “Night”, is just a story focused on a boy in a world that has been changed due to indifference. The speech contains many examples of what the world would be with indifference, one of the examples including the “Night” the book itself. The book is indeed a story about what the world would be with indifference and just ends with a eerie note on how the protagonist still remembers how much the world had changed him. On the “The Perils of Indifference”, Wiesel uses the book as

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