In the novel Night and the speeches, “The Perils of Indifference” and “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech” Elie Wiesel has a purpose for writing each one taken from the experiences that he had at Auschwitz, whether that be to inform the reader about the tragedy of the Holocaust or persuading the reader to stand up against persecution which is what happened to him. Weisel doesn’t want what happened to him during the Holocaust to happen to anyone else, and that is his main reason for writing these stories, and speeches.
First, in the novel Night Wiesel’s main reason for writing it was to inform the reader of the terrible things that were occurring at these Nazi concentration camps. Wiesel is telling everything that happens on his first night at the camp, and all the traumatic events that he had to endure as just a fifteen year old boy. Wiesel writes, “This is what the antechamber of hell must look like. So many crazed men, so much shouting, so much brutality.” This quote shows just how bad the camps were because the only thing that Wiesel can compare it to is Hell, and wants the reader to feel sorry for
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Wiesel writes, “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.” Wiesel is saying in this quote that not taking a side in a cruelty will not help the victim because it won’t stop the oppressor from doing what they are doing to the victim. Wiesel also writes, “Do I have the right to represent the multitudes who have perished? Do I have the right to accept this great honor on their behalf? I do not.” This quote is Wiesel telling the audience that he doesn’t feel like he should be able to speak for all of the people that died in the tragedy of the Holocaust, but he does feel the presence of all the