Denial

Holocaust survivor, American-Romanian writer, Elie Wiesel in his optimistic speech, “The Perils of Indifference,” claims that indifference has multiple meanings all of which are negative. Wiesel states that indifference makes us “inhuman.” He supports his message by emphasizing his dreadful experience in the Holocaust in his speech. Wiesel starts off by explaining what it felt to be free, “but with no joy in the heart.” Next, Wiesel adds on to his claim that indeed he is free, but the experience…

Genocide, the mass slaughter of a group of people based on who they are, can inflict unimaginable harm on the victimized people in many ways. One can not possibly quantify the grotesque, inhumane treatment witnessed in many genocides. Simultaneously, however, many victims are vulnerable to their identities being destroyed and only their will to survive being left intact. One whose identity is altered, even those fortunate enough to survive, still suffer immortally. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust…

In the memoir, “Night”, Elie Wiesel is faced with the struggles of going into concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Buna, and others in late World War II. During the holocaust, because of the lack of modern technology, no other countries knew about what was happening to the Jewish prisoners in these camps. However, Elie Wiesel was not the only one who was struck with devastation in these times of unknown crisis. Other Holocaust victims lost faith in not just their surroundings, but in…

Mary W. Shelley once said “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” The book Night, a memoir on Eliezer Wiesel life in several Auschwitz Concentration Camps, Eliezer faced many challenges throughout the book an example being the death of his Mother, Father, and sister. All of the challenges he faced shaped and changed Elie in a way that affected him throughout his life. This shows that when we are faced with problems we try to adapt and change to solve them. In the…

Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in a small town in Romania. He and his family felt right at home surrounded by a highly populated Jewish community. Wiesel lead a privileged life, centered around education and religion. That is, until the Nazi soldiers came to collect him, along with his family and friends as a teenager. The gathered Jewish people from his community were sent to Auschwitz Concentration Camp where many devastating events took place in the life of Wiesel and thousands of other Jews.…

“‘The Jews are undoubtably a race, but they are not human.’ Adolf Hitler.” (Spiegelman 10) In grade 10 Canadian History, one of the topics students cover is the Holocaust. In the 2015-2016 grade 10 challenge class at L.C.V.I. students studied both MAUS and Night. Both MAUS and Night show the stories of Holocaust survivors, however, the protagonist in MAUS becomes a Nazi prisoner earlier during World War Two than the protagonist in Night. Both of these books can be used to teach students about…

The book, Night, by Elie Wiesel and the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, demonstrates two completely different perspectives towards the Holocaust. Night, a nonfiction memoir, depicted the life and feelings of a young boy who was forced to endure the harshness and depression of a life in a death camp. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a heartbreaking movie, based on a fictional novel, shares the inimaginable friendship of a Nazi soldier's son, Bruno, with an imprisoned Jewish boy, Shmuel.…

The Jewish people were dehumanized by the Nazis and robbed of hope and faith in God. The novella “Night” by Elie Wiesel begins in Seguit and continues from Auschwitz to Buchenwald during which time, Eliezer and his father, along with millions of other Jews were enslaved, tortured, starved and killed over a period of nine years. The treatment of the Jews during the Holocaust, broke their physical and mental stability and left them helpless. Hitler achieved his goal of making the Jews feel…

Compromise is Key Conflict is something people go through everyday; different types of conflict and the severity of a situation can have a large impact on someone’s life. Inspiring leaders like Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel spoke out for their rights as Jewish people during the 1940s. As they have shown, conflict is a major issue that can be triumphed. The healthiest ways to rid of it and prevent it are to stay hopeful and work on an agreement. People can best respond to conflict by staying…

Holocaust Survivor, Elie Wiesel, in his speech, “The Perils of Indifference” (1999), vouches that having an apathetic attitude to a situation is dangerous a society in need of help. He supports his claim by gaining credibility from his audience and uses imagery to help, then addresses briefly about his past life and an example of when indifference occurred, and finally, shoves everything that transpired in the past and hints what we can do differently in the future. Wiesel’s purpose is to entice…