Theme Of Indifference In The Boy And The Striped Pjamas

Writer, Elie Wiesel in his metaphorical speech “The perils of Indifference” argues that the future will never know the agony of the Holocaust and they will never understand the tragedy of the horrific terror in Germany. Wiesel wants people to not let this happen but at the time many modern genocides that are occurring and people shouldn’t be focused on just the Holocaust, they should focus on making this world a better place; moreover, Wiesel expresses his thoughts about all the genocides that has happen throughout the years. He develops his message through in an horrifying event that took place 54 years ago the day “ The perils of Indifference” was published. Wiesel illustrates the indifferences of good vs evil. He develops this message

He was finally free, no joy filled his heart but abandonment was drowning it. How dangerous is indifference to humankind as it pertains to suffering and the need for conscience understanding when people are faced with unjust behaviors? Elie Wiesel is an award winning author and novelist who has endured and survived hardships. One of the darkest times in history, a massacre of over six million Jews, the Holocaust and Hitler himself. After the Holocaust he went on and wrote the internationally acclaimed memoir “Night,” in which he spoke out against persecution and injustice across the world. In the compassionate yet pleading speech, ¨Perils of Indifference,¨ Elie Wiesel analyzes the injustices that himself and others endured during the twentieth century, as well as the hellish acts of the Holocaust through effective rhetorical choices.

Elie Wiesel has given the listener a wonderful opportunity to feel the intense movement of his speech, “The Perils of Indifference”. His speech is centered around the need for vigilance in the face of evil. Throughout this speech, with which he moved so many, he shared his experience with being sent to Buchenwald, a concentration camp, the treacherous conditions in which they were living, and the way that indifference has separated human beings. He explained, that through anger and hatred a great poem or symphony can be written, because “One does something special for the sake of humanity because one is angry at the injustice that one witnesses.” (Wiesel, 1999/16, p. 78). The three strategies that will be explored throughout this analysis are ethos, logos, and pathos.

Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor and successful writer and speaker. He’s written a very popular book, Night and speeches that also get Elie’s message across. While his book Night and his speech Perils of Indifference both illustrate indifference, it’s displayed in different ways. The effects, pain and suffering from the holocaust were described in the book and all this was due to indifference which was communicated through the speech. The two texts have common similarities, but also many differences as well.

Language has the ability to impact the mood and tone of a piece in literature. In Night, Wiesel uses imagery, symbolism, diction and foreshadowing to illustrate dehumanization. The deeper true horror of the Holocaust is not what they Nazi’s did, but the behavior they legitimized as human beings being dehumanized by one another through silence and apathy.

Limitations of the movie include the Jewish child’s lifestyle inside of the concentration camp. The largest differences is the fact that the Jewish boy was able to wander off by himself in order to escape the harshness of his destinies lifestyle. The boy in the striped pajamas would certainly not have been able to wonder as he pleased, which leads to the fact that there was a large lack of guards on the camp. Guards during the Holocaust were very important in order to keep rules enforced; however, there were not many guards throughout the movie who were truly seen as evil and rule enforcing. Not only did the previously stated limitations contribute to the inaccuracy of the movie, but the largest limitation includes the fact that the Jewish boy, Shmuel, would not be alive due to the fact that he was not older than fifteen years. Concentration camps did not allow children under the age of fifteen to be given their lives due to the fact that they were seen as “useless.” If the movie, The Boy in The Striped Pajamas was thoroughly accurate, then the movie would not exist due to the fact that the Jewish boy would not be alive, which creates the largest problem of the whole movie when analyzing it for accuracy.

Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night, recounts the horrors he saw firsthand during his internment in Auschwitz. In his hindsight, Wiesel reflects on not only his own indifference, but the indifference of others who shared his fate. Along his journey, he comes across three different kinds of indifference: indifference towards oneself, indifference towards others, and indifference towards the world.

In Night, the set change from Elie’s hometown Sighet to the concentration camps truly embodies the change of Elie’s character. At the beginning of the book, Elie portrays himself as a person who desire to learn about the Jewish religion. Moreover, he even finds a teacher to help him to learn about the very essence of the divinity of the Jewish religion, “ I became convinced that Moishe the Beadle would help me enter eternity, into that time when question and answer would become ONE ”(5). In this case, Elie believes god controls humans and god can answer any questions he has. Conversely, as the setting shifts to the concentration camp, the reality of his faith reveals “ Never shall I forget those moments murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes”(34). In the concentration camp, he starts to lose faith in god when he sees god doesn’t help them when dehumanizing actions occur on Jews. Specifically, on the Jewish holiday Appelplatz, he questions and criticizes god , “ Why, but why would I bless him? [...] Because he kept six crematoria working day and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days? ” (67) By this time, Elie tears off his mask of still believe in god and reveals his true identity: God does not exist, he is hopeless. Moreover, the shift also affects the mood of the story which it transfers the mood from hopefulness to despair and hatred. While in the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, the coming-of-age genre facilitates the illustration of appearance and reality. Initially, when Bruno still lives in Berlin, he plays with his friends all the time and portrays himself as an explorer. When his family moves to the new residence near the camp , however, his parents tell him he can’t play in the back garden and can’t be an explorer anymore. Out of curiosity, he eventually breaks the rule and jump over the back garden. After running through the forest, he

Cruelty surrounds the world constantly, and is used frequently in works of literature to reveal certain things about the theme. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, acts of cruelty are used to express the theme and enhance its message. One of the largest themes revealed by these acts is “man’s inhumanity to man,” which includes mistreatment of Jews by the Nazis, the common people, and other Jews. Watching the large amounts of violence, abuse, and discrimination that occur in this memoir show us the horrors of the Holocaust and how it transformed the men and women who it experienced it, as well as those who caused it.

The Holocaust was a horrific time period when over six million Jewish people were systematically exterminated by the Nazi government. Throughout this period, the Jews were treated particularly inhumane because the Nazi viewed their ethnicities as a disease to humanity. Dehumanization is a featured theme in Elie Wiesel’s novel about the Holocaust since he demonstrated numerous examples of the severe conditions endured by the Jewish people. The nonfiction story Night by Elie Wiesel focuses on inhumanity and reveals human beings are capable of committing great atrocities and behaving cruelly, when such actions are condoned by society, peer pressure, and ethical beliefs. Elie Wiesel uses literary devices to produce a consistent theme of inhumanity.

Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, in the speech “Perils of Indifference”, calls out the American government for being indifferent in an important time in world history. He claims that indifference is a very horrible thing and bad things have come from. He supports his claim by first explaining his childhood, then he goes on to talk about what it means to him, next explains the power it can have and finally explains the consequences that can come from it. His purpose is to educate his audience about indifference in hope of preventing indifference to continue in the future generations in order to accomplish his purpose for the speech. He establishes a calm tone for his audience.

The Holocaust was a time of great suffering and inhumanity. The novel Night, which took place during this time, was written by Elie Wiesel and talks about his teen self-experiencing the concentration camps of Auschwitz. This is related to the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas which is the story of a young German boy named Bruno who befriends a Jewish boy in a concentration camp. The many similarities and differences between the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the novel Night include their many themes of “inhumanity” and “guilt and inaction”, and the two also share and differ in the loss of innocence of the characters and how they develop in each medium.

Elie Wiesel’s speech “The Perils of Indifference” is a mind opening and emotional speech that prompts the audience to change the indifference that plagues America and many people in this time and age. He expresses to the audience that indifference is the reason appalling and horrifying events, such as the Holocaust, occur and why no one takes immediate actions to help the victims. To get his point across, Wiesel uses his own history and experiences so that the audience can visualize the Holocaust through the eyes of a survivor and to project the feelings of hopelessness and defeat that the victims felt when no one came to end the injustice. In this critique, Elie Wiesel’s rhetorical speech of indifference will show its effectiveness through testimony, emotion, and rhetorical questions; this speech accomplished its goal and without a doubt persuaded most of the audience to call out for change in indifference.

The Boy in Striped Pyjamas One of the main ideas in the film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas directed by Mark Herman is that friendship breaks all barriers, no matter the circumstances. This is conveyed through the characters Bruno, a naive Christian boy who loves exploring, and whose father is a head officer in Hitler’s army. And his unexpected friend Shmuel, a Jewish boy who lives in a concentration camp on the opposite side of the forest that Bruno and his family live at. This is a very unusual friendship , but because of the two boy’s naive and kind hearts, they physically and emotionally break every barrier in their way that stops them from being best friends. In this Film it begins with Bruno and his family living securely in Berlin,

Show how the character of Gretel develops in ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’. You must closely analyse framing, set, props, costume colour and lighting (mise-en-scene). Remember to put each shot you mention into context and state how it contributes to the character development of Gretel. Aim to write 3 A4 pages.