Silence By Elie Wiesel Essay
“...Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented” This means that if you continue to stay silent, people will continue to be tormented, if you don’t stand to make a difference, the world will remain the same.
When Wiesel says “I know: your choice transcends me.” He means that the award, along with the powerful meaning behind it, is more important than him. It goes beyond him.
He’s scared because he doesn’t know if he can live up to the expectations that come with receiving the award, he doesn’t want to disappoint the people that believe in him so. He’s pleased because he knows that he’s helped mankind, he knows that their nomination was just and appropriate.
No one did anything to help them. And it is too late for them to live their …show more content…
The outcries of the helpless inspiring the brave to do good, to change something. It symbolizes a desperate need to transform, for the voices of the silent to be opened to fight the atrocities of the world. It also symbolizes the younger generation and how they’re affected by our (your?) decisions. The boy asks questions about the law and will of man. Directly disagreeing with silence. The speech author adds this boy because it helps show his thought process; people are hurt, and everyone else is silent, maybe I should do something to change that. The boy/author does not want people to stay mute like they did during the Holocaust.
The word ‘night’ as used by both by the book ‘Night’ and “...emerged from the kingdom of night” (line in Elie Wiesel’s speech) portrays loneliness, helplessness, but also hope. Why? Because the people that were in the “Kingdom of Night” were lonely seeing as the world sat and watched them suffer, helpless as they could do nothing to stop they’re torment, and hopeful for a brighter tomorrow, when the human race learns from its mistakes and doesn’t repeat them.
The short, choppy sentences help express urgency. You know (as I have said so many times before), the urgency to change. They also convey emotion, expressing how the boy feels about his dire
When Wiesel says “I know: your choice transcends me.” He means that the award, along with the powerful meaning behind it, is more important than him. It goes beyond him.
He’s scared because he doesn’t know if he can live up to the expectations that come with receiving the award, he doesn’t want to disappoint the people that believe in him so. He’s pleased because he knows that he’s helped mankind, he knows that their nomination was just and appropriate.
No one did anything to help them. And it is too late for them to live their …show more content…
The outcries of the helpless inspiring the brave to do good, to change something. It symbolizes a desperate need to transform, for the voices of the silent to be opened to fight the atrocities of the world. It also symbolizes the younger generation and how they’re affected by our (your?) decisions. The boy asks questions about the law and will of man. Directly disagreeing with silence. The speech author adds this boy because it helps show his thought process; people are hurt, and everyone else is silent, maybe I should do something to change that. The boy/author does not want people to stay mute like they did during the Holocaust.
The word ‘night’ as used by both by the book ‘Night’ and “...emerged from the kingdom of night” (line in Elie Wiesel’s speech) portrays loneliness, helplessness, but also hope. Why? Because the people that were in the “Kingdom of Night” were lonely seeing as the world sat and watched them suffer, helpless as they could do nothing to stop they’re torment, and hopeful for a brighter tomorrow, when the human race learns from its mistakes and doesn’t repeat them.
The short, choppy sentences help express urgency. You know (as I have said so many times before), the urgency to change. They also convey emotion, expressing how the boy feels about his dire