Every story written by Elie Weisel had a universal purpose, to cultivate change. In his novel Night or in his speeches “Perils of indifference” and “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.” And “He wanted to eliminate violent injustice from the world. After surviving the Auschwitz concentration camp, he published 53 works in his lifetime and every single one was made to inform people of the horrible things from WWII and to inspire changes in the people’s mindsets.
In Elie Wiesel’s novel Night, his purpose is to inform people of the terrible things he went through, racial injustice, genocide, and having his family taken away and killed. He was robbed of his faith, dignity, and will to live. “Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.” Despite all of this, he survived, and he dedicated his life to his cause. Night was written to tell his account of the holocaust, to really give people an inside look on what it was like.
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Wiesel informed people of what happened in the holocaust, yet his true purpose was to persuade and inspire change in the mindsets of powerful people. The speech was given in front of the president, his staff, and members of Congress. His purpose was to stop indifference when it comes to injustice, whether or not it is in America. “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