Neutrality In Night By Elie Wiesel

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The Holocaust was a dark time in human history. People were persecuting others and treating them like animals. In the novel, Night, by Elie Wiesel, a boy named Elie and his father are taken to Auschwitz and subjected to the horrors that take place there. Wiesel claims that silence and neutrality are the greatest sins because they cause the victims to become despondent, they allow the oppressors to continue their crimes, and neutrality causes the prisoners to lose emotion.
Neutrality and silence cause the victims of the Holocaust to become vulnerable because they stop showing compassion towards others and become hardened. Elie is attending a ceremony for a prisoner who is about to be hung in the gallows. A prisoner whispers to Elie, “This ceremony,