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Who's To Blame For The Book Night

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Who’s to Blame for? In the book Night, written by Elie Wiesel, he expresses how while he was suffering along with many other Jews, those safe in Germany did nothing to help or fight back. Jews were forgotten as humans and left to survive by themselves. During Elie Wiesel’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, he expressed a clear central idea to his audience. That is, we as people must be held accountable for the massacre that has happened. This is evident when he states, “Neutrality helps the oppressor, not the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormentor. Sometimes we must interfere”(Wiesel). Elie promised himself never to stay silent while someone is suffering. This tracks(goes along with) how we must be held accountable because if no one speaks out against …show more content…

She has written a book, titled I Was Tested to the Limit. Similar to Elie Wiesel, she shares her testimony to inform people of what she experienced. This way, she holds the people who victimized her accountable for what they did. As you can see, Elie Wiesel communicates a universal central idea that we must be held accountable for the massacres that have happened. This is shown throughout Night, the poem written by a German soldier, and the Rwandan genocide. In Night Elie Wiesel believed it would be hard for people to come to terms with what happened, emphasizing that we should be held accountable for this massacre. A German soldier wrote how they tried to express resentment but never succeeded because there wasn’t enough strength in numbers. And lastly, Elie Wiesels' central idea is shown through the Rwandan genocide. Consolee Nishimwe watched as people she trusted turned their backs on her because of the hatred they held. She stresses the importance of not leaving anyone to protect themselves, connecting to the central idea of Elie

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