The Perils Of Indifference By Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in the town of Sighet. During World War II, he and his family were taken to the German concentration camps. During his time in the concentration camps, his parents and little sister died. But Elie Wiesel and his older sisters survived, and in 1945, he was taken to Paris where he studied at the Sorbonne and became a journalist. His first book, La Nuit, was a memoir of his time in the concentration camps. After his first book was published, he has published more than thirty books based on his time in the concentration camps. He wanted to make sure that people had an understanding of what went on in the concentration camps.

In the Novel, Night, Elie Wiesel persuades the audience by expressing the point of view that

He also explains the difference between anger and indifference that people may have. It says in the short story, “Indifference, after all, is more dangerous than anger and hatred. Anger can at times be creative. One writes a great poem, a great symphony. One does something special for the sake of humanity because one is angry at the injustice that one witnesses. But indifference is never creative. Even hatred at times may elicit a response. You fight it. You denounce it. You disarm it.”. This shows the informing part of the story when he was discussing the difference between anger and indifference. He wanted the audience to know what people were going through and what type of feelings that the prisoners had during the concentration

In the novel, Night, he was persuading the audience by expressing the feelings of the officers towards the prisoners. An example of this is when he said, “Dozens of inmates were there to receive us, sticks in hand, striking anywhere, anyone, without reason.”. In, “The Pearls of Indifference”, he was informing the audience about the differences between anger and indifference. To support this, it says in the story, “Indifference, after all, is more dangerous than anger and hatred. Anger can at times be creative. One writes a great poem, a great symphony. One does something special for the sake of humanity because one is angry at the injustice that one witnesses. But indifference is never creative. Even hatred at times may elicit a response. You fight it. You denounce it. You disarm it.”. And in the speech, “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech”, he was persuading the audience when he was speaking in third-person to him as “A young Jewish Boy”. To prove this, it says in the speech, “I remember: it happened yesterday, or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the Kingdom of Night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his