indifference.” This quote by Elie Wiesel says a lot. Indifference is dangerous. We have a moral responsibility to help others most of the time. There are moments where it’s okay to be indifferent. This moral responsibility that we have is important to keep our indifference in check. We have a moral responsibility to help right the wrongs in the world but to an extent. There are situations where it is acceptable to be indifferent. For example‚ a part in the book Night‚ Elie’s dad was getting beat
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being indifferent you are much more of a threat‚ you do not have a care‚ therefor you are able to be heartless in so many ways. Elie Weisel describes indifference as‚ “A strange unnatural state in which lines blur between light and darkness‚ dusk and dawn‚ crime and punishment‚ cruelty and compassion‚ good and evil”(290-291) in his essay “The Perils of Indifference.” Weisel shares the same views as I do when dealing with indifference. It can be very dangerous since there is no good or evil only apathy
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This one most accurately represents Elie Wiesel. Ellie was a jew raised in transylvania who wrote about his story going through the daily life at extermination camps with his father during the second World War in his novel‚ Night. For Elie‚ faith was a huge part of his life growing up‚ but as he experiences the horrors that go on in the death camps he loses his faith little by little until he eventually becomes cynical towards religion. From a young age Elie was a very religious child‚ often dreaming
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Book’s such as Maus (Art Spigealman) and Night (Elie Wiesel) were written so that these horrors would not be re-lived. Six months into his dictatorship‚ Hitler began systematically stripping the Jews of their basic privileges and rights. The right to own land‚ hold health insurance‚ serve in the military‚ or seek legal counsel was all seized from Jewish life‚ (History). Thus leaving them homeless and with no-where to go. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel‚ Elie writes of how his family was thrown out
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see the flames.) Over there-- that’s where you’re going to be taken…” (Page 40) Night by Elie Wiesel‚ published in the year 1956‚ is about Elie Wiesel and his horrible experience throughout the Holocaust. The book starts with twelve year old Wiesel evacuating from his home‚ and eventually separating from everyone in his family but his father Shlomo. For a majority of the novel‚ Shlomo is Elie’s reason to keep trying. Elie and his father remain together for their entire journey‚ and keep each other
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For example‚ in his memoir Night‚ Elie Wiesel faces countless choices as he endures the vilest adversity: genocide. For example‚ as his ailing father approaches his end‚ Elie may either abandon him or help him. For a moment Elie considers the former option‚ but he brushes the thought aside. In Night‚ Elie writes that “It [the thought] was only a fraction of a second‚ but it left me feeling guilty” (Wiesel 111). Atrocity attempts to persuade Elie to the dark of night‚ but he decides to stay in the
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The three girls lock up their houses‚ kiss their parent’s goodbye and drive. To where you ask? To freedom. The pretty kind. As far as the eye can see is a sea of green canopies. Here and there silver gulley’s thread themselves into the deep gorges of the forests. The sun winks down from the heavens reflecting‚ off the water so it shines like jewels. A whole day of complete beauty. Arie sits hunched against the earthen wall‚ face smothered by her folded knees. She is breathing. Just barely. Her
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A quote that exemplifies this is by Elie Wiesel‚ who once said‚ "When a person doesn’t have gratitude‚ something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude." Elie Wiesel is a writer‚ who was put through Auschwitz as a Jew during the Holocaust. He has been given many reasons to give up on humanity‚ but he chooses not to
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John Jacob Mrs. Balfash English 9 12 December 2012 The Holocaust If there was a god‚ why would he/she be so harsh? The text is compared to the book Night by Ellie Wiesel and from the poems “Night over Birkenau” and “Harbach 1944”. The book Night tells the story of a young boy and his father fighting for their freedom from the Nazis; Ellie Wiesel tells the story of his experience of the Holocaust. Both of the poems show the journeys of people and how they pictured all of the madness. Ellie
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Humanity in Movie “Life of Pi” —Conflict between human nature and death Introduction Pi whose father operates a zoo in India has his special attitudes towards beliefs and humanity because of his extraordinary environment in which he lived when he was a child. His parents decided to immigrate to Canada when he was only 17 years old while Pi had to break out with his first lover. On the ship to Canada‚ a rainstorm occurred and the ship sank. Nevertheless‚ Pi survived dramatically
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