An Essay On My Grandfather By Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel writes about his personal experience of the Holocaust in his memoir, Night. He is a Jewish man who is sent to a concentration camp, controlled by an infamous dictator, Hitler. Elie is stripped away everything that belongs to him. All that he has worked for in his life is taken away from him instantly. He is even separated from his mother and sister. On the other side of this he is fortunate to survive and tell his story. He describes the immense cruel treatment that he receives from the Nazis. Even after all of the brutal treatment and atrocities he experiences he does not hate the world and everything in it, along with not becoming a brute.

In the speech, “Perils of Indifference,” Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, conveys his message that indifference entices inhumanity as a lack of acknowledgement to a person’s suffering is advantageous to an assailant and “elicits no response” (3). Therefore, the individual with a sense of indifference is a determining factor in others’ distress because without their involvement, the victim will never be assisted. Sentiments of anger and hatred possess the ability to endorse positive conclusions; however, “indifference is never creative” because of the absence of participation (3). Wiesel develops his claim by providing a series of background information to display credibility, personal experiences to amplify the emotions of the audience,

As with all human beings, there are happy memories and bad memories. Some have no effect, and others can change someone’s life completely. Elie Wiesel’s autobiography, Night, writes about Elie’s external conflict of the horrors of the Holocaust’s violent concentration camps. Elie resolves this conflict by having all the hope of the world in him and enduring the evident deaths of his family members; however, Elie’s trek also illustrates his character as both enduring and dependent. Elie’s decision to staying hopeful and stay enduring also reveals the universal theme of, “The toughest and darkest of times and experience can test your hope”

The book Night opens in the town of Signet where Elie Wiesel, the author ,

Writer Elie Wiesel in is Critical speech “The Perils of Indifference,” sheds lights on to world we live in today has evolved into a society of indifference That stripes us form are sense of human characteristics to help others in need of assistance. He supports his claim by illustrating the affect the U.S indifferences had towards the jews led to the death of countless amount of jews perishing during the holocaust seen in paragraph 2 and 18. In addition; In paragraph 8 of “The Perils of Indifference,” it states that people who believe in indifferences become “inhuman” showing no form of sympathy towards others. Finally, In paragraph 11, the author draws the connection towards the countless amounts of death during the meinel with all

Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel in his critical speech, ”Perils of Indifference,” maintains the idea that indifference is inhumane. He supports his claim by using his personal experience in the Holocaust. Additionally, it states in paragraph 9 that “They were dead and did not know it.” emphasizes how indifference has made the “Muselmann” completely unaware of their fate. Further, it states in paragraph 8 that “Indifference can be tempting… troublesome… and can make our lives meaningless.” Wiesel’s purpose is to warn the people that change is needed in order to encourage the people to make a change in the world for the better so something as tragic and devastating like the Holocaust never happens again. He establishes a critical tone for readers by using stylistic devices and rhetorical devices such as imagery, contemplative questions,and word choice in order to achieve his message that indifference is inhumane. Wiesel’s message about the inhumanity of indifference and the importance of resistance is still relevant today.

Wiesel gave this speech with a purpose to challenge perspectives of inattention towards other’s suffering to maintain sanity and inspire others to instead avoid the temptation of indifference. He argued that “to be indifferent to that suffering is what makes human being inhuman”(Wiesel 311). Although his speech may have been hard to hear, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel used his speech to create an “opportune moment in time” (Longaker and Walker 9) to persuade the American audience to make a change through the use of the events of his past. In doing so, he evoked strong responses from the audience through rhetorical appeals as an attempt to encourage them to reflect upon the difficult questions he poses throughout the speech and make more of a conscious effort not to be indifferent.

A wise Ethiopian ruler, Haile Selassie, once said “throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph”. Throughout millennia, despite many differences in language, cultural, and social structures, humans all developed the same characteristics in their approach in tragedies happening around the world. When responding to tragedies, humans can either be aghast, furious, and eager to do whatever they can to help or they can be in support of the people who caused the tragedy. However, there is one response that is arguably worse than the latter: being

Amel shook his head, sighing. He looked disappointed. I had finally quelled the happiness in him. Or, so I thought, until he gave me a small smile. "I'm sure living here for as long as you have has been taxing. The people here are so sad and violent, but they don't want to listen, Cerin. Hope, joy, and love... they don't have to hide very well here. There are so many distractions, so many fake things they tell themselves, that any virtue is easily covered up. God could give us so much food, we'd never ever starve, or so enough money for absolutely everyone to live in a nice house, or even heal all the sick and raise our dead loved ones, and we still wouldn't believe in Him. But He shouldn't even have to do any of that, He already made us, and

The decisions that indiviuals make often have a significant impact on their lives. The choices that we make on a daily basis can either go in their favor or not. When doing these things people have to be vigil and wise, because they never know who it can affect or how it’s going to affect them. In life, it is critical that indiviuials make the right decisions. If they don’t it can put themselves, their family, and their loved ones in danger. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, Wiesel was forced to make decisions that affected his identity and innocence.

Elie Wiesel’s quote is important to me and many of my peers because he lets us know that it does not require a lot to be done for the right thing to happen or the best moral choice to be done. In the quote he says, “... there is always a moment when the moral choice is made. Often because of one story or one book or one person, we are able to make a different choice, a choice for humanity, for life”. For me, my grandmother, a woman who positively contributes to her city, country, and community, has influenced my ethical decision making. Anyone who knows my grandmother knows she is a woman who has strong morals. When I was young she gave me talks about doing the right thing just because it is the right thing to do.

Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel said “If in my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be just the one” (Wiesel, Preface to the New Translation). Growing up he experienced many hardships that he'd never expect to go through. In his book Night he recounted his experiences and depicted everything that was going on during the Holocaust. Elie’s experiences shaped him into a completely different person and caused him to view things differently. As Elie spent more time in camp he saw a lack of justice which caused him to change his perspective of God; he was not denying God’s existence, but questioned his absolute justice, still he did not lose all faith.

When Elie Wiesel and his father got separated from his sister and his mother it must have been hard knowing he'd never see them again. When he saw what was gonna happen to him and his father he lost not only his faith but his belief in his god. He thought god was save them and when he realized god wasn’t gonna save them all he gave up. When you stop believing in something you believed in your whole life because you realize they're not real its like you lose a part of yourself. When I was younger I was catholic I believed god was there watching over me all day long but then some stuff happened and I realized he didn’t and wasn’t gonna save me so it when then and there that I lost a part of myself when I stopped believing in god. So I can say

Survival is one of the few key themes in this novel. It is the main theme since most of the book is about

Elie Wiesel was a young boy who was sent to a concentration camp at a sad young age. He was raised to be a very faithful boy but because of everything he was forced to do and everything tragic and sad he saw he was mentally traumatized. It made him wonder why if god was so great why wouldn't he come save him? His father probably didn't even have time to explain to him why he was going threw this and why he should not lose hope. As Elie approached the flames of discrimination and hatred he began to second guess his entire faith all together. When his father began to pray to god he said why? Why is my father calling out to him when he did nothing to stop me from coming here? And that's understandable. He was to young to understand trials and