Suffering In The Book Night

" If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem" - African Proverb (Unknown African Source). In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Darfur Genocide and Syrian Refugee all show that when a person's responsibility when confronted with another suffering is to help them but sometime the situation that we are, and can affect if we are going to help the person or not. Sometime were are in position where we choose not to do something when we know that someone is suffering because we know that something bad will happen. For example, In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie's dad asked Elie to give him water the second time then Elie ignored him and then his dad said, "My son, water . . . I'm burning up . . .", and then the guard say's "Silence over there!" barked the officer (Wiesel 111). The example explains that Elie choose not to give water to his dad because he knew that it was bad for him so he was in a position where he couldn’t do anything because he knew that if he gave water then he didn't wouldn't get …show more content…
For example in the book night, "I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent"(pg.39). This was where Elie was give the choose to help is dad but the he would beaten up or the Gypsy person might even do something worse. Elie was in a position where he could risk his life for his father but that would be very risk for him. Another example from a different source is that the Syria Refugee, When the Janjaweed people would come in the villages and destroy everything then the men's try to help to the people but they knew that there was less chances of them surviving because the Janjaweed would kill them when they try to defend their self for their family. These two evidence show that sometimes we can help but then we would have to put pour life in risk so we can help