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The Perils Of Indifference By Martin Niemöller

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When Ellie Weisel says “Indifference, then, is not only a sin it is a punishment” he makes a powerful claim about human nature. An example of this is the Nazi invasion of Europe, where many countries did not stop the Nazis from murdering the Jewish people. They chose to remain silent because they were scared of the Nazis fighting back. When faced with opposition it is better to speak up than show indifference and stay silent. In the poem The First Came by Martin Niemöller he says that if you stay silent when bad things happen then when danger comes to you it will be too late. In this poem Martin talks about how he ignored everything the bad people were doing. He ignored what they were doing to the communists, socialists, unionists and Jews. …show more content…

The indifference and the United Government staying silent took so many innocent Jewish people away from the safety of the United States. This ship was turned back after Kristallnacht or the night of broken glass. Since this event was after the night of broken glass the United States and President Roosevelt were aware what would happen if the ship was sent back. When the ship went back to Nazi Germany the Jewish people were put in concentration camps where many of them likely died. Ellie says “Rosevent was a good man, he understood those people needed help.” Rosevent could have let the ship into the United States, but he did not because he was scared of getting in a war with the Nazis. The main idea to take away from this is that Rosevelt stayed silent causing people to …show more content…

Montag had over twenty book in the grill of his air conditioner that if found will get him arrested and the Fire Department would burn them. Montag says to Mildred that they are now in this together and how he was sorry. Montag was scared to speed up because he was afraid of the Fire department burning his collection of books and him losing his job. Many positive things do happen as a result of of Montag speaking up and not staying silent. One of the main things that get better is Montag and Mildred are spending more time together and are closer to each other that then they have been in the rest of the story. Montag even say reading the books could stop Mildred from overdosing on sleeping pills so much and make her a better

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Foremost, Mildred helps Montag find himself. When Montag first realizes that there is no connection between him and Mildred he loses feelings for her. He soon realizes that their relationship is pushing each other apart. “And he thought of her lying on the bed with the two technicians standing straight over her, not bent with concern, but only standing straight, arms folded. And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn’t cry”(Bradbury 41).

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In his influential 1999 speech, “Perils of Indifference,” Elie Weisel brought attention to the problem of indifference in society, and in the government. After his experiences as a child survivor of the Holocaust, he believed people were indifferent toward the dilemmas of others and chose to not care to help them, for their own sake. In his speech, he recalls historical events to prove how much the world has been affected by the dangers of indifference and forces his audience to self-reflect on this issue by asking rhetorical questions, introducing them to different points of view, and showing its effects. With this, he makes a call to action and with hope, inspires his audience to make a change. As history keeps changing, it is important

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In the very start of the book it talks about Mildred having a mental problem that causes her to forget what she does. In the beginning of the book, Montag walks into the bedroom

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In this part of the book, all of the firemen including Montag received a call to burn a house with the books in there. Here became the turning point for Montag as he saw the woman, who already had made her decision to die rather than live in a world of oppression and restricted freedom of thought which books symbolize in this part, burns with the illegal books in the burning house, refusing to go out without the assurance of the safety of the books. We can suppose that his perception is gradually changing through the phrase showing that Montag felt a huge guilt over this, unlike the other firemen or Beatty. Furthermore, during the conversation with his wife, Mildred, Montag says, “We burn a thousand books. We burnt a woman.

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She talks about unusual things and makes Montag realize that he is not happy, changing his outlook on life. His wife, Mildred, tries to end her own life by overdosing on sleeping pills, but when she is rushed to the hospital, the doctors don’t see it as a big deal due to them seeing suicide attempts so often. All these things help Montag

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Firstly, Montag stole a book to try and discover what he is missing not reading them. Clarisse at random asked Montag if he was happy, and it had never came across to Montag if he was happy. People in their society really didn't feel at all. The old woman that had rather die with her books than give them up, began to make Montag curious on why they were so special. He began to question every aspect in his life, when he does, Mildred tells Montag he should have thought before becoming a fireman.

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People chose to normalize or forget it happened, continuing life as normal without a second thought, rather than try to stop or speak out against the Nazis. Martin Niemoller describes what it’s like struggling to speak out against the Nazis in “First They Came for the Communists.” He wanted to live, so he “did not speak out,” which led to his eventual capture as there was “no one left to speak out” (Niemöller 184). While it’s evident that many were afraid of their own capture, their lack of confidence to speak against the Nazis led to many people’s death. Had more people spoken out, many lives would have been saved.

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Holocaust survivor and author, Elie Wiesel in his thought-provoking speech, The Perils of Indifference, maintains the idea that indifference is dangerous and inhuman. He develops his message through the use of imagery, rhetorical questions, and anecdotes. Wiesel’s purpose is to warn readers of the danger that comes with indifference in order to instill a sense of urgency in the readers so that they can avoid indifference. He establishes a serious yet hopeful tone for readers by using stylistic devices such as imagery, metaphor, and rhetorical questions in order to develop his message that indifference is the most dangerous and inhuman thing known to man.

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have cast a dark shadow over humanity: two world wars, countless civil wars, the senseless chain of assassinations (Gandhi, the Kennedy's, Martin Luther King, Sadat, Rabin) bloodbaths... the inhumanity in the gulag and the tragedy of Hiroshima.” (Wiesel). This logic persuades his audience because obviously, these things are not good. They are all victims of indifference; nobody did anything about them. Additionally, the same effect is given when he says, “Indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor.”

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For starters, in the poem ‘’First they came’’ by Martin Niemöller the poem states, ’’Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.’’ This is an example of what Elie Wiesel said in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. This example shows that bad people came for Jews and the person in the poem did not speak up or do anything to try and stop the bad people,

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This is until the day he meets Clarisse, who looks at the world in a different way than anyone else. Then, shortly after, he has to burn down a house full of books and burn the woman inside also because she refuses to leave. This causes Montag to realize that books should not be burned and have great significance in the world. He then shows his wife the abundance of books that he has collected from his job, and his wife, Mildred, becomes concerned. This later causes her to make up lies to cover the fact that Montag is breaking the law of owning books.

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Wiesel pinpoints the indifference of humans as the real enemy, causing further suffering and lost to those already in peril. Wiesel commenced the speech with an interesting attention getter: a story about a young Jewish from a small town that was at the end of war liberated from Nazi rule by American soldiers. This young boy was in fact himself. The first-hand experience of cruelty gave him credibility in discussing the dangers of indifference; he was a victim himself.

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