The Perils Of Indifference By Elie Wiesel

Jewish writer, Elie wiesel in his brave speech, The Perils of Indifference, asserts that indifference is a bad thing, a sin, because why would someone want everybody looking the same. No one would have their own unique personality, everybody would be bland. He supports his claim by explaining that indifference is inhumane and to create awareness so that way everybody can know that it's good to be different. Also to persuade people not to be indifferent, that we should be our own kind of person, unique, we can define indifference so that way others are aware of its effects that way then can do something about it. Wiesel’s purpose is to inform people that indifference is bad in order to encourage us to not feel bad about ourselves. He establishes an informative tone for readers by using stylistic devices and rhetorical devices such as syntax, imagery, and word choice in order

The reading of Elie Wiesel’s “The Perils of Indifference” makes it have a clearer understanding. 8,000 Bosniaks were killed in what is known as the Srebrenica genocide, the largest massacre in Europe after the Holocaust, 25,000 women and children were expelled from towns while generals tried to hunt down 15,000 men. There were Serbs that targeted Bosniak civilians in a campaign of ethnic cleansing. Despite the war in Bosnia it had claimed the lives of a great estimation of 100,000 people. Following Bosnia’s independence in April 1992, Serbian forces accompanied them with an attempted with an ethnically cleanse(source). The way the people from Bosnia reacted they did not like it one bit they had taken their human rights and abused Bosnia. The international community had responded and defended the town's civilian population. Wiesel’s warning is that there had been so “many