Even when people are controlled, they can still speak up with determination instead of staying silent. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer is commanded as well as many others while staying in different camps. Wiesel illustrates the destructive effects that silence and control had over all of the Jews. It changes lots of people’s thoughts and changes one’s character. Wiesel also speaks about the courage and strength it takes to get past the dangerous effects of domination by speaking out loud with a voice. While staying silent gives the illusion of safety and protection, Elie Wiesel describes how being determined and overcoming the fear of speaking out can allow one to have control over their life. When using power in Night, Wiesel shows how being …show more content…
The SS officer yelled at him, “‘Listen to me you son of a swine!’ said Iked coldly. ‘So much for your curiosity. You shall receive five times more if you dare tell anyone what you saw! Understood?’” (Wiesel, 58). Eliezer was so afraid that he used silence to corrupt him and keep him from speaking up. His fear overcame him which caused him to obey and listen. When obeying the officer, Wiesel implies this compliance by “[nodding] once, ten times, endlessly. As if my head had decided to say yes for all eternity.” Elie felt like nodding for eternity just to follow orders, showing the power and mastery the SS officers had over him. Eliezer’s duty to comply and follow the officer’s orders is conveyed through him nodding his head. Wiesel connects control and manipulation with silence proving the response of being weaker. He also …show more content…
both mention how one can overcome being fearful by speaking up with determination and taking control of one’s own life. In Wiesel’s famous speech “Perils of Indifference”, he speaks about the importance of indifference and how it’s affected people today. Wiesel states how every step could be changed towards greatness if everyone speaks out loud together. He even mentions how, “this time, the world was not silent. This time, we do respond. This time, we intervene” (Wiesel, “Perils”). When Wiesel talks, he declares the determination of the whole group. He then starts to proclaim the significance of having the courage and strength to use one’s voice. Being controlled and having fear to speak out may seem safer, but instead, it would be right to be determined and speak out. Wiesel speaks about how fear can be overpowered by being assured of having a voice while working together. Another speaker, Martin Luther King Jr. states the difference between being controlled with fear and speaking out with pride. King starts to get more personal describing his actions and what he did to achieve overcoming fear. He illustrates how he couldn’t be quiet and just obey and how he needed to stand up and speak out to start something new. He then speaks how, “For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent” (King, “Beyond Vietnam”). Martin Luther King Jr.
In times of tragedy, people tend to come together, but when the Jews desperately needed someone to speak up, silence prevailed. In the novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel, there are many lessons that Eliezer learned and he expresses those lessons through his acceptance speech of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Throughout Night, Eliezer is faced with a huge tragedy. He is able to overcome and wants to spread awareness about the dangers of keeping quiet and the importance of speaking up. Six million Jews died due to the absence of the nation’s voice.
Wiesel pinpoints the indifference of humans as the real enemy, causing further suffering and lost to those already in peril. Wiesel commenced the speech with an interesting attention getter: a story about a young Jewish from a small town that was at the end of war liberated from Nazi rule by American soldiers. This young boy was in fact himself. The first-hand experience of cruelty gave him credibility in discussing the dangers of indifference; he was a victim himself.
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Wiesel's words remind us that sometimes we must interfere. As a
Eli Wiesel's ‘‘Night‘‘ and Martin Niemöller's ‘‘First Came for the Communists‘‘ share common themes of the danger of silence and the importance of standing up against injustice. He describes the horrors he experienced and endured, including the loss of his family, the dehumanization and atrocities of the concentration camps. Throughout his story, Wiesel emphasizes the importance of standing witness and opposing the atrocities he and others have endured.
Elie Wiesel, a famous author, speaker, and survivor of Auschwitz during the Holocaust, writes and speaks out about the detrimental atrocities that he has survived and tells about those who have not. Through his book and his speeches, his goal is to inform and persuade the people he reaches to speak out against horrors, like the Holocaust, and not let the perils of others go unseen. He says that to ignore these social injustices is to help the abuser and never the victim and in his pursuit of justice for all those who go unseen, he touches millions of lives with his disturbing account of the true tragedies of the Holocaust. In his novel, Night, Mr. Wiesel is informing people of the things he and his family went through in the Holocaust.
From the small town of Sighet in Transylvania to the huge concentration camps of Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel, the author and victim of the book Night, the horrifying experience of the Holocaust. Wiesel is a 15 year old Jewish boy who was captured by the Germans or “Nazis” during WWII. He went through an overwhelming amount of trauma, like when he got separated from his mother and sisters and watching his father suffer an unbearable amount of pain that eventually killed him. The fact is, power is a tool that can corrupt itself and others, it can ruin people’s lives and it can do that without people even realizing it.
In the novel, “Night” Elie Wiesel communicates with the readers his thoughts and experiences during the Holocaust. Wiesel describes his fight for survival and journey questioning god’s justice, wanting an answer to why he would allow all these deaths to occur. His first time subjected into the concentration camp he felt fear, and was warned about the chimneys where the bodies were burned and turned into ashes. Despite being warned by an inmate about Auschwitz he stayed optimistic telling himself a human can’t possibly be that cruel to another human.
In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel narrates the legendary tale of what happened to him and his father during the Holocaust. In the introduction, Wiesel talks about how his village in Seghet was never worried about the war until it was too late. Wiesel’s village received advanced notice of the Germans, but the whole village ignored it. Throughout the entire account, Wiesel has many traits that are key to his survival in the concertation camps.
When the young boy asks, “Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent”, (paragraph 5) again the audience is prompted to emotionally respond. They have to realize that it was all of them, all of us, who remained silent and that this silence must never happen again. Wiesel demonstrates a strong use of pathos throughout his speech to encourage his audience to commit to never sitting silently by while any human beings are being treated
They feared nothing. They were dead and did not know it” (Wiesel, 1999). Him choosing to take this approach and provide that bit of information coupled with his opinion of how his century will be judged, Elie Wiesel manages to effectively press upon the emotions of his listeners, painting portraits that they could all mentally envision or even recall. However, cautious as to not come off as manipulative or disingenuous regarding his gratitude towards the American people, he begins to further establish his credibility by explaining why he once felt so hopeless and stripped of
For example, their structure and use of rhetorical modes in their argument differ in multiple ways. Wiesel's speech is primarily a persuasive essay, with a clear thesis and supporting arguments. He asks, "What are the perils of indifference? They are a moral danger. They are a political danger.
After going through so much, many people do not have the same mindset as they did before. Being tortured and watching others being tortured changes a person’s life, especially Elie’s, his father’s, Moshe the Beadle’s, and Rabbi Eliahou’s. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, shares his own experience of going through a concentration camp, and it is clear that many things in his life changed
Night is a powerful, first person account of the tragic horrors of the Holocaust written and endured by Elie Wiesel. In this dark literary piece, Wiesel's first hand tale of the atrocities and horrors endured in World War II concentration camps will leave an unforgettable, dark, macabre impression amongst readers that cannot be done with a simple listing of statistics. This tale of human perserverance and the dark side of human nature will cause readers to question their own humanity. Also, it will paint a vivid picture of the vile deeds that mankind is capable of expressing. Reading this book will leave a long lasting impression that is definitely not something that will be soon forgotten.
As much as Jew’s wanted to speak for themselves, or even save others, this wasn’t possible due to their fear of winning them causing silence. In the Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, shows how Wiesel’s experience was during this harsh time in his life as a teenager. During this experience, Wiesel discovers how others, also including him, decided to remain silent as a result of their fear, causing some choices to be avoided and not made. To sum up, Wiesel’s experience portrays that fear always wins and causes others to be silent. Throughout this experience, Wiesel meets another person who is going through the same situation as him.
The world has had many threats to it and its inhabitants at all times. Everyone in our society has to be able to fight back against these risks somehow, rather than falling prey to them. Elie Wiesel wrote a memoir, titled Night, about the Holocaust and his experience as a survivor; within his writing, Elie specifically speaks of rebellion. Elie develops the theme of rebellion through the use of the metaphor of soup, eyes, and the descriptions of fire in order to convey the idea that one needs to confront threats internally against one’s self before being able to vocally combat the morals of society; and if present, weaknesses will interfere.