The Perils Of Indifference By Elie Wiesel

Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Author, Elie Wiesel, in his sympathetic speech, “The Perils of Indifference,” warns people about the dangers of indifference. He supports his claim by describing a scenario with a young Jewish boy and him being saved by American soldiers from a concentration camp. Wiesel also supports his claim by telling a story about how indifference is worse than anger and hatred through descriptive words. He finally uses imagery to give us a descriptive image of what indifference could do for the future. Wiesel’s purpose is to warn people of the danger of indifference in order to inform people of all the harm indifference can because. He establishes a serious tone for the readers by using literary devices such as Repetition, Structure, and Imagery in order to achieve his message that indifference

First starting because of the many religious and cultural differences between north and south Sudan, was escalated to the First Sudanese Civil War in 1955-1972 and the Second Sudanese Civil War in 1983-2005. Then in 2003, the Sudan Government responded to an ongoing rebellion by starting a genocidal campaign that ended with 300,000 deaths and over 3 million Darfuris displaced. The United Nations were watching and sent 9,000 of the 26,000 needed troops and have also donated $500 million to the Darfur peacekeeping efforts. Wiesel said “It is so much easier to look away from victims” and “It is so much easier to avoid such rude interruptions to our work, our dreams, our hopes” (par. 8). The United Nation helping Darfur shows that people are listening to Wiesel and that our humanity is not being lost. If people do take Wiesel’s warning as serious as the United Nations has, then our humanity will not be lost. This is the purpose why Wiesel states this at the end of “The Perils of Indifference” as to what we have to do so that we still have