Examples Of Injustice In Night By Elie Wiesel

Sydney J. Harris once said, “The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts : to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say ‘I was wrong.” But how do people learn what is wrong or right, what is unjust, and what is morally acceptable? Life experiences of injustice give us a feeling that something is just not right, but it takes a truly powerful story or person to truly persuade a person what injustice truly means. In Sounder by William H. Armstrong, when the Boy’s father is arrested he learns that even though people are good at heart it does not mean they are not subjected to racial prejudice and harsh laws and punishments. Elie Wiesel writes of his first hand experiences

Loss damages humans emotionally and sometimes spiritually but it is loss that makes us grow as members of a society. The need to prevent others from suffering as well overwhelms us and we become advocated against whatever has hurt us so much. In Elie Wiesel’s autobiographical novel Night, he suffers along with his family through the Holocaust. He watches people suffer and wither away, including his father. During his time of just under a year in concentration camps, Wiesel grew into a very mature and emotionally strong person. His entire family passed away during this time. However, he had grown so much through this that he chose to spend the rest of his life fighting to prevent another Holocaust like event from occurring. He gave speeches, wrote essays and novels, and became one of the most well known advocates for human rights. He provided many educational tools for us to use to teach the next generation about the monstrosities that he lived though. Elie Wiesel used his personal pain and loss to grow as a person and dedicate his life to ensuring that others don’t suffer as

Scout, the main character grows spiritually, physically, and most importantly morally. She experiences the injustices of Southern racial policy and does not understand how to react to it. However, her behavior at the end of the story demonstrates her outstanding and extensive moral growth. In the beginning Scout shows immaturity by fighting and yelling at other. She shows her new maturity when she walks Arthur (Boo) Radley home after he rescues her and Jem from Bob Ewell. She said that to tell that Boo killed Bob Ewell would be like “shootin’ a mockingbird” or harming the innocent. Scout provided justice to a man who had shown her great kindness throughout her years, something neither of them would ever forget. When one sees injustices occurring outside their own front door it leads to feeling of responsibility for bringing new justice into society. Scout will likely spend much of her life fighting for the equal treatment of African Americans in our criminal justice system because of the events she witnessed as a child. Just like Scout, the moral growth experienced by witnessing injustices leads to a very mature and respectful person, willing to fight for what they believe is