Silence By Elie Wiesel Analysis

Many religious conflicts are built from prejudice. However, only few will have a lasting effect on the world’s history. In Germany in the year 1933, a man named Adolf Hitler rose to power. His mission would be to “exterminate” all minorities, but most importantly, the Jews. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire". But as we now know in history, the Holocaust was the genocide of six million Jews by Hitler and the Nazi regime. Over the time of Hitler's reign, the Jewish population would be stripped of their rights, dignity, and most preciously their lives.

Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel in his formal speech,”The Perils of Indifference,” asserts that indifference has causes all tragedy in the past, present, and will continue to terrorize humanity in the future if we do not stop it. He develops his message through examples of what indifference specifically causes. Any wars or serious events like Kennedy’s assassination, WW I&II, etc. He describes these as “failures” that “cast” a “dark shadow” over “humanity” (par. 5). Also, Wiesel shares personal anecdotes in order to give his specific point of view at the scene of something like the Holocaust. His story with the “Muselmanner” illustrates that these prisoners were left to die in the corner of buildings and they eventually “stared vacantly into space” and they were “dead” but “they did not know it.” Ultimately, he ends with his prospects of the future. He hopes that humans abolish indifference for the sake of their own humanity. Wiesel’s purpose is to ultimately warn his audience into stopping the progression of indifference in order to stop the growth of foreign and domestic hostility. He establishes a serious tone for readers by using stylistic devices and rhetorical devices such as repetition, pathos, and rhetorical questions in order to develop his message that the inhumanity of indifference and the importance of resistance is still relevant today.

Strong bonds built upon trust and dependability can last a lifetime, especially through strenuous moments when the integrity of a bond is the only thing that can be counted on to get through those situations. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he writes about his life spent in the concentration camps, while explaining the experiences and struggles that he went through. However, not everything during that period was completely unbearable for Wiesel. When Wiesel arrived at the first camp, Birkenau, the fear instilled in him and the loneliness he would have felt forced him to form a stronger attachment to his father. That dependence towards his father gave Wiesel a reason to keep on living. In turn, his father was able to support Wiesel and make the experiences in the camps a bit more manageable.

1.If you were stripped of your freedom and individuality to be held in a camp waiting to die would you feel indifferent. Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and Boston University Professor, presented a speech as part of the Millennium Lecture Series at the White House on April 12, 1999 2.(Wiesel 221). President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton hosted the formal event. Numerous government officials from a wide order of public, private and foreign office attended the event 2.(Wiesel 221). Although Elie Wiesel designed his speech to persuade, it actually felt somewhat outside from its original intended purpose, as being more different.

Currently America honors those murdered by the Nazis with museums, monuments, and even a remembrance day. However during the Holocaust, under the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, America was reluctant to save the Jews from Europe. Six million Jews were systematically murdered through mass shootings, gas chambers, and in death marches. We might expect that as a model democracy, America would have made a great effort to rescue these Jews but that was sadly not what occurred. Due to America’s tradition of isolationism and a singular focus on achieving military victory, Roosevelt's attention to Jewish refugees in Europe during World War II can most accurately be characterized as a mix of missed opportunities and limited achievements.

I believe that Rebecca Skloot included this quote from Elie Wiesel as it represents how important each person really is. This quote says that every person is different and inside of them is something special, their own personal hopes and fears. This quote comes from a man who spent time in a concentration camp as a number, and being labeled doesn't make you feel very special, such is the case with the HeLa cells. The cells, which came from a real person, were labeled in such a way that whose they were didn't matter, the same as the number given to the Jewish people in the Holocaust. The quote also goes on to mention how each person wants to triumph, to succeed in whatever their goal may be. For Elie this may have been to survive and help

If we held one minute of silence for each life lost in the Holocaust, we would be sitting in silence for 11.5 years. The statement “never give up, regardless the situation” is very easy to agree with. We are told this told by our peers all the time, in everyday life. This is important to think about during school, sports,relationships, or even life or death situations like Elie was in throughout the book “Night”.

Eliezer’s faith in God was strong in the beginning, believing that God had unconditional love and was great. Eliezer could not begin to think that he could live without his God. He believes that God is in the whole world. Later on his faith is tested by the cruelty and evil he witnessed in various camps. He also saw the same evil in prisoners, Jews just like himself he wanders how his God could allow this and if God is also cruel like the. Eliezer manages to keep some faith during his various experiences when Moshe asked why Eliezer prays he says “I pray to the God within me that he will give me the strength to ask the right questions” (pg4). Drawling near to the end is where Eliezer says he gives up on believing in God but, deep inside God is still within him.

If we had an option to wipe out our memory, would we choose to forget about the events that involved actual or threatened death, serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of ourselves or others? For soldiers, it may be losing a close comrade in a war. For me or any other ordinary individuals, they may be natural or human-made disasters, violent personal attack, torture or even sexually abuse(Parekh). The truth is, we don’t want to be reminded of any of these terrible events that took away a small portion of our lives.

When things are hidden from the public, or if the public is not aware of something, it is left untold. This happens to many events and people throughout history. According to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s speech, “The Danger of a Single Story,” we need multiple stories so one is not veiled by the single story. When there is only one side of a story, the other side is unspoken. Once the other half is not made visible, it dehumanizes the people who are a part of the unspoken story. They become places, things, and people that are forgotten. Martin Espada wrote in “Speaking of the Unspoken Places in Poetry,” that “sometimes these places are unspoken because unspeakable things happen there.” September 11, 2001 was a tragic day for many people. Hundreds

"I am your hope.” "I am your supply.” "I am your defender.” "I am your deliverer.” "I am your forgiveness.”

“Can the past be forgiven? Can people who have been traumatized live with memory and each other again? What do they need to be healed?” (Marrus 27). In a world growing smaller each day, people cannot afford to hold onto the traumas and wrongs that have been committed unto them. At the same time, how can the world ask people who have been tortured, abused, systematically raped, and their lives forever changed to live with their aggressors once again? Can these people forgive their transgressors and come to a place of reconciliation? The steps taken by the Germany after the Second World War give one example of how to acknowledge atrocities. The Holocaust is an example of horrors on a global scale, but despite the scale or length of

Some argue that corrupt police officers are simply the product of a corrupt culture of the agency they work for. These officers are socially introduced to a number of informal rules when they begin employment. This process and these rules serve two main purposes. First, this process is designed to minimize the chances of external or internal controls being mobilized to address the behaviors and, secondly, to keep corrupt activities at a level that is acceptable and likely undetectable. The rule most often referred to in this connection, is the “Code of Silence.” Officers are socialized into not cooperating with investigations regarding fellow officers. Whether or not the officer participates in corrupt activities for financial gain, an officer’s adherence to the “Code of Silence” places them squarely amongst the corrupt of the profession (Price, 1972).

Psalms 23:4 Even when I walk through the darkest valley,I will not be afraid,for you are close beside me.Your rod and your staff protect and comfort me. This will guide through the things you think aren't important like you relationships, and you victories and how to get those victories, and even the worst of all your failures you have in life.

Most of us have hopefully heard the incredible story of the woman at the well. For me today, this story met me right where I was at. All though it may sound silly, last night I was devastated at my favorite sports team loosing miserable to it’s opponent. There was so much building up to the game, anticipation, special food bought, friends were all gathered to watch, and then it was a major let down. I will never forget this unhealthy fleshly feeling I felt after the lost, it felt like my whole world at that point in time was a total failure and was worthless. As a follower of Christ, I knew this feeling was not of Him. In fact, it was the feeling of another god that I chose to serve. When we put all our efforts into things of this world, not only will they let us down, but we will become as worthless as they are. Not saying that sports are bad, but a false god normally isn’t a bad thing in it’s essence, until we put it higher in place of the one true God. This to me this is one of the most dangerous things we deal with everyday of life. Because anything can creep in to become that one centerpiece of our life, and as we serve it we become as worthless as it is(most the time it is ourselves). I say these things are worthless because we are talking about an area where the ALL-powerful, holy, and righteous God should be in control of. This is why worshiping the Lord is so important, it makes Him the ruler of our life, and He is the only one worthy/capable of fulfilling that