The Perils Of Indifference Summary

Indifference is unnatural; Indifference is a blurred line between light and dark; Indifference is seductive; Indifference is the end of man. Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, in his speech, “The Perils of Indifference,” argues that indifference is more dangerous than anger and hatred. He supports his claim by first illustrating the “failures that have cast a dark shadow over humanity” and talks about dreadful characteristics of indifference and what it does to us; then he talks about how indifference is “not a beginning, it is an end” and how mankind has made so many mistakes. Finally, Wiesel hopes that we can improve upon ourselves and “walk towards the new millennium, carried by profound fear and extraordinary hope.”
Wiesel’s purpose is to define indifference so that we are aware of it’s effects so that we can do something about it in order to bring about change to the world and society. He adopts a bitter, critical, and hopeful tone for politicians, ambassadors, members of Congress, lawmakers, and the president. The general
The Jewish units in eastern Europe fought Germans in city ghettos and did not start until 1943. Eastern Resistance units emerged in over 100 ghettos several countries, including Poland, Lithuania, Belorussia, and the Ukraine. In western Europe, in France, a French Jewish partisan group was founded in Toulouse around January 1942. They smuggled money from Switzerland and brought it into France to assist Jews in hiding and smuggled at least 500 Jews into neutral Spain, and took part in the 1944 uprisings against the Germans in Paris. Wiesel talks about how indifference has “its courses and inescapable consequences” and whether it is a philosophy or not. These two groups are both examples of a philosophical group that stood up to the oppressors for the better