Elie Wiesel is now beginning to develop all these different actions that are on the uprise and beginning to happen all throughout Europe. Throughout the book, Wiesel tells the readers what he had to go through to survive and what he felt like such as this line in the book, “because of his hunger and deprivation, he had become nothing more than a stomach”. He is showing us all how poorly they were getting treated with hardly an food, any water, no medicines, no doctors that were able to keep yourself in ok shape to survive. Despite all this misery and the thought of death through the camp that was beginning to take place, their were still plenty of moments when people were being very generous and extremely caring toward one another with sharing, helping one another out and sometimes even defending one another even though the knew the risks of doing so. Such as when, Elie’s father began to give rations of his own hardwork food to his son so that he can live longer and possibly have a chance of a better life one day while his father begins to face starvation and depression with the less food that he is eating and that everyone else is getting.
The Korean War was a war between communism and democracy of the two separated Koreas. In 1950, the Korean War, a war supported with allies from all over the world, began when North Korea invaded the South. Canada, one of the significant allies of South Korea, was of major importance when defending the South from the communist North. Many Canadians believe that Canada's contributions during the Korean War were forgotten, while others argue that Canada’s significance in the war is commemorated. The purpose of this essay is to answer the statement; “Examine Canada’s contribution to the Korean War”.
Elie Wiesel emphasizes throughout "The Perils of Indifference" how choosing to ignore the suffering of others only produces more misery, more prejudice, and more grief—and it also imperils the very humanity of those who choose to do so. Wiesel also noted that in the
Elie Wiesel faced a lot of cruelty and a lot of inhumanity from man throughout his time in the concentration camps from other prisoners and the Nazis. In the memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel, cruelty and the theme of man’s inhumanity to man appears throughout the whole story and throughout Elie 's time within the concentration camps, in that it gives us examples of how the Nazis didn’t feed them enough, beat them, stripped them of their identities, made them run long distances, and how the Jew’s would be cruel to each other when they would take food from one another and beat others. One of the first examples of cruelty is from the Nazis towards Elie. The author wrote “Then I was aware of nothing but the strokes of the whip.
According to Google, the definition of suffering is the state of undergoing pain distress or hardship. When others are suffering and we look away, we automatically take the side of the tormentor. During Hitler's reign many Jews suffered but no one said anything. Now Eli Wiesel who endured extreme suffering tells readers everywhere of the importance of speaking out when humans are suffering.
In paragraph 7, Wiesel argues that “Indifference elicits no response […] is not a response […] is not a beginning […] is an end […] is not only a sin […] is a punishment.” Through this parallel structure, Wiesel conveys that indifference is inhuman by setting up correspondences between indifference with no response, end, sin, and punishment, appealing to audiences’ logos. In a logical reasoning, when you agree with a claim, you have a tendency to agree with the next claim; these repeating phrases make sure Wiesel’s audiences agree with at least one of them, and later agree with his conclusion that indifference is inhuman. Wiesel emphasizes that indifference is inhuman with his reference of different scenarios of people treated indifferently, “the hungry children” and “the homeless refugees” were treated with indifferent responses like “not to respond to their plight” and “not to relieve their solitude”, which appeals to the audience’s emotion to think of how they would be treated terribly if people around them are indifference. The helpless and despairing scenes Wiesel creates cultivates his audience’s as well as your sympathies toward these victims, and forces you to question yourself that whether or not you yourself was one of those indifferent
A strange and unnatural state in which the lines blur between light and darkness, dusk and dawn, crime and punishment, cruelty and compassion, good and evil.” (Wiesel pg.2) This is a creative technique to use so that the audience understands how indifference is not only another word for disinterest, but also an attitude that pins someone between good and bad. Wiesel does not want the audience to ever view indifference as a positive approach when dealing with the world’s suffering. He does not directly define it as negative, but instead asks rhetorical questions to describe the adverse word.
Suffering does not always change the morals of a person, “Literature depicting suffering also inspires hope and confidence in the resilience of the human spirit” (Cerullo, paragraph 7). Rabbi was one in Night who kept a strong faith throughout all of his suffering, and while his body was getting weaker, his faith remained strong. His faith was one thing that kept him pushing to survive in the harsh conditions of the concentration camps. Wiesel observed that “strangely, his words never provoked anyone. They did bring peace” (Wiesel 90).
The Emotional Effect of Elie Wiesel’s, The Perils of Indifference In Elie Wiesel’s heart-wrenching speech, the Perils of Indifference, he uses various rhetorical appeals to explain his point to the audience. He shares his personal experience of the Holocaust and what happened to those around him to show that indifference, albeit comfortable, is the reason the jews suffered so much for so long. Political officials, acquaintances, and any of the others who bore witness to his speech were able to empathize and understand Wiesel through his use of ethos, pathos, and logos.
The human condition is a very malleable idea that is constantly changing due to the current state of mankind. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the concept of the human condition is displayed in the worst sense of the concept, during the Holocaust of WWII. During this time, multiple groups of people, most notably European Jews, were persecuted against and sent to horrible hard labor and killing centers such as Auschwitz. In this memoir, Wiesel uses complex figurative language such as similes and metaphors to display the theme that a person’s state as a human, both at a physical and emotional level, can be altered to extreme lengths, and even taken away from them, under the most extreme conditions.
Suffering not only forces people to make inhumane decisions but it also causes people to lose hope and give up on themselves. In this section of the book, Elie describes a time where he was devastated to see his father beaten and hurt in the camps. Throughout his time in the camps, Elie saw and heard the abuse that was given to people in the camp killing his hope. The biggest turning point in the story was when he saw his father getting beat. When Idek “began beating [Elie’s father] with an iron bar … [Elie’s] father simply doubled over under the blows, but then [Elie's father] seemed to break in two like an old tree struck by lightning”
Human suffering is everywhere in the world but it does not concern men or women as we find out in the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel where he is controlled by the Germans to work long hours, eat a minimal amount of food and sleep on wooden beds were the rest who are not chosen go to the gas chamber. The movie “The Help” is another example of a text were people suffer by others who don’t care how they live. In “The Help” the coloured are looked upon as dirty and disgraceful people who should work as house maids and have a minimal wage. Both texts involve human suffering from the suffering inflicted by others to being treated with no respect or how they live and being watched by other people who see them suffer every day and don’t do anything to
Holocaust survivor and American Jewish author, Elie Wiesel in his serious and pensive speech, “The Perils of Indifference,” asserts that “to be indifferent” of the world’s problems “is what makes the human being inhuman” and is the reason that genocides along with millions of deaths have occured (The Perils of). He supports his claim by revealing to his audience his personal experience in the concentration camps of the Holocaust to appeal to their emotions so that they can understand what he had to go through; moreover, Wiesel uses strong, emotionally loaded language to further create a stronger impact when describing our world and society as being involved with “so much violence” and “so much indifference.” Additionally, he uses imagery to illustrate indifference as “not only a sin,” but “a punishment.” Wiesel’s purpose is to make “the human being become less indifferent and more human” in order to bring about change in
Holocaust survivor and author of the novel, Night, Elie Wiesel in his speech, “The Perils of Indifference,” claims that indifference is not only a sin, but is an act of dehumanization. He begins to develop his claim by defining the word “indifference”, then enlightens the audience about his personal experiences living through the war. Finally he asks the audience how they will change as they enter a new millennium. Wiesel’s purpose throughout his speech is to convince his audience not to be indifferent to those who were, and are, being treated cruelly and unjust. He creates tones of tranquility, disappointment, abandonment, and happiness in order for his audience to see his perspective during the horrific times of the Holocaust.
Philosophy: Schopenhauer’s Philosophy that Life is Full of Suffering Introduction Across the universe, nearly each person living on Earth will experience suffering at least at a particular moment in his or her lifetime. Suffering involves the pain people feel due to disruptions in an individual’s life, health misconduct or injury. Arthur Schopenhauer, the German Philosopher, suggested that life is packed with suffering, and this suffering is solid as a result of the individual’s will (Berger, 2004). This paper will discuss this argument and attempt to clarify why Schopenhauer perceives that life is filled with suffering and the way he considers that the suffering can be overwhelmed.
