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What Is The Perils Of Indifference Speech

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Is it better to speak up or stay silent when people are hurting? Mr. Wiesel wrote the book Night to tell us what was it like to be in the concentration camps. Perils of Indifference is about how being mad is better than being indifferent. Mr. Wiesel wrote the book Night and the speech Perils of Indifference to inform everyone that people need to speak up. I think Mr. Wiesel delivered his message better in the speech Perils of Indifference. Perils of Indifference communicates to other leaders in the world not to make the same mistake. Since Night was about Mr. Wiesel’s life in the Holocaust. He didn’t have much to say, nor information about the outside world. Night delivers Mr. Wiesel’s message, but you have to fully comprehend what he is saying. Night could be an effective way to deliver his message. He tells us by putting his own thoughts into this book. Night has all the details of what was going through his head. This example is everywhere in the book. He writes the book in first person. He puts …show more content…

Wiesel is about this subject. I think he is much wiser about this subject in Perils of Indifference, because he learns what actually happened in the Holocaust. Mr. Wiesel later learned that the US was also indifferent. He told stories about how the US had so many chances of speaking out and acting to help the Jewish people, but instead they turned their opportunity down. People sent a ship with 1000 Jewish people to the US, but the US made them go back. America could have also stopped doing business with Germany, so they wouldn’t have made things worse. Since no one was stopping Germany, Hitler thought this was a way to move forward with his plans. Mr. Wiesel reflects his experiences in this speech. By reflecting his experience we can understand that he wants a change. He tells us that some people saw what happened to them and didn’t do

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