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The Perils Of Indifference And Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

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Night, “The Perils of Indifference” and “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech”, written by Elie Wiesel, are made to persuade and inform people of the horrible things that are happening. Not just what is happening but how it is being overlooked even though some people know it is happening. In all the pieces he has written above he gives information on many events that happen where people know what's happening but do nothing to stop it. So Elie Wiesel's reason to persuade and inform the people is to stop people from overlooking tragic and inhuman acts and stop them. Wiesel is speaking and writing about this to persuade the people who hear him speak or read his novel to stand up to the things that did and are happening, so events like the Holocaust never happen again.

In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel informs the people of the tragic and horrible things that happened to him during the Holocaust. All the things he endured or saw during the Holocaust racial injustice, genocide, his family being killed, to the point he lost …show more content…

He informs them of what was going on in the holocaust, while persuading them to change their mindsets to help those who are being treated like animals and being slaughtered or tortured for their satisfaction. To tell people not to just stand by while people get treated unfairly due to race or anything for that matter and stand up to the injustices that people were facing. “Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor—never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.” showing that people who just were just overlooking what has happened made the people who were the victims of the cruel events that are and were happening feel forgotten due to no one trying to help at that

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