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Elie Wiesel, an award winning author, Nobel Prize winner, and Holocaust survivor, delivered a speech to government officials at the White House the year before the new millennia. His speech “The Perils of Indifference” calls on his own personal experience in the Jewish Concentration Camps and other historical events to show the harm feeling indifferent can cause to society. Wiesel succeeded in invoking empathy and understanding in his audience by describing indifference, using every day…

In Elie Wiesels life changing memoir “Night” he travels the path of hate, cruelty, and silence. He then recounts his life in the concentration camps, as a young boy named Eliezer, describing his experiences that shaped him into the person he is today. Sharing with us his tragic experiences, and all the feelings he had to hold in during the horrid time of the Holocaust. For feelings were not something to be defined in the camps, in order to survive feelings were not an option. During the…

The darkness in the world is blinded. It was not blinded by the light nor can’t find its way in the dark but a blur; the blur of indifference. A moving speech from a holocaust survivor has brought some shared thought in humanity. He discusses the time for change in the new millennium and shows the threat of the indifferent ones. Leaders of the past will fray the failures but yet not forget. The indifferent in the world will not win as long as there is hope in the new millennium. The speech…

During the Late Middle Ages (1300-1600), Western European England had just gone through many changes socially, economically, politically, etc, and was truly starting to form and become its own territory. At the same time, Eastern European Russia was just beginning to form, and it soon became one of the top civilizations. These two European territories were similar and different. First, England and Russia had their similarities and differences politically. Next, the two parts of Europe were…

In the book Night, Elie Wiesel shows a great deal of compassion and a heap of compassion is shown to him by other people in order to survive. Compassion is necessary for survival. Compassion helps Elie survive the holocaust. Compassion is defined as a concern for someone or something. It is told from the perspective of Elie. It tells the story of a nation of people in the holocaust who are bound together by their love for each other, the land, and faith. The Jews were used as pawns by the Nazis…

Rhetorical Analysis In the article The Perils of Indifference by Elie Wiesel is a speech by the author. He is a Holocaust survivor and a noble prize winner and has written many books. The article states that the world being indifferent to things happening around us. He wants the world to help others in need without ignoring them as they are not affected by the events. He starts by addressing President Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies and friends; his…

Elie truly loses his faith Over 1.1 million children died during the holocaust, Young children were particularly targeted by the Nazis to be murdered during the Holocaust. They posed a unique threat because if they lived, they would grow up to parent a new generation of Jews. Many children were suffocated in the crowded cattle cars on the way to the camps. Those who survived were immediately taken to the gas chambers. Night a memoir by Elie Wiesel, is taken place in the year 1941, it was about a…

Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, observed the actions of his fellow sufferers and in his publication, Night, stated, “We should show God that even here, in this enclosed hell, we were capable of singing his praises”(). As demonstrated in this passage by Wiesel that despite the injustices that prove to continuously leave the victims battered and broken, they are able to carry themselves upon the backs of one another to support their beliefs, and keep their dignity in tact. It is through instances…

Isak Borenstein was born on May 5th, 1918, in Random Poland. His father was a life-stock dealer. He had three brothers and three sisters, two of his sisters names were Hannah and Lola. One brother’s name was Abe. Isak was a prisoner of war and here is a little imformation about his story. When the Germans came to Poland Isak left his family and fled to Russia. While he was there he worked as a carpenter. When Hitler finally invaded Russia, Isak enlisted in the Russian army to escape the…

Night Literary Analysis What do you believe in? What deity and set of laws rule your life? Elie Wiesel shares in his book Night the story of his family and father as they endure life in the concentration camps. Elie and Mr. Wiesel spend little under a year traveling from one concentration camp to the next, encountering pain and suffering along the way. In this story Elie tells the truth of losing his faith slowly and steadily as he sees the true horror of human nature all the while using…