Elie Wiesel lived through the most horrifying period in recorded history. He is a survivor of the Holocaust, a German political movement that ripped apart families and slaughtered over 11 million innocent people. As soon as he was liberated, Wiesel began to write and speak publicly about the horrors he witnessed. Night is his memoir about what he saw first hand on his journey and the cruelties committed by officers and even his fellow prisoners. Perils of Indifference was his speech to the White House in 1999, discussing one factor that not only fueled the Holocaust, but also demoralised prisoners even more. Between these two inspiring works, Night was his most effective in its message. It is a look into the horrifying world of the Holocaust …show more content…
“Those who were selected that day were incorporated into the Sonder-Kommando, the Kommando working in the crematoria... he had been forced to place his own father’s body into the furnace”(Eliezer 35). Throughout Night, Elie used a lot of painful small details, like that one. Far more than in Perils of Indifference, it inspires disgust and horror about these events, which engage the reader emotionally. The story is in the small details, which tell us about every particular method or behavior. It can be very revealing about the person or organization as a whole, even through one instance. The imagery and trauma that the author expresses draws in the reader and lets them know the depth of his sufferings. In the speech, the painful details is not revealed. He talks very broadly, trying to be respectful to those around him, which ends up censoring some content that could have been important to his cause. Wiesel could have gone more into depth about the United States’ ignorance in the Holocaust and the distress it caused victims, but he didn’t because he was speaking to the president. Night gives a no holds barred view of life in the camps, and the specific agony that he discusses affects the reader and makes them more apt to change for the