Elizabeth Nordstrom Dr. Mathis English 101-20 10/01/2014 “The Perils of Indifference” On April 12‚ 1999‚ Nobel Peace Prize winner‚ Elie Wiesel delivered the speech that expressed the thoughts of thousands of Holocaust survivors. The speech “The Perils of Indifference”‚ was presented to the entire White House‚ all members of Congress‚ and thousands of others to thank President Clinton and the United States Government for helping all Jewish people in the way that they did. There are hundreds
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their surroundings.” This quote from Elie Wiesel’s speech “The Perils of Indifference‚” shows that indifference kills people by making them lose purpose in living. Elie Wiesel‚ a survivor of the Holocaust‚ lived a life full of indifferent people. He suffered behind the gates of concentration camps while German citizens he had once know stood back and watched him and thousands of others suffer. Elie’s speech “The Perils of Indifference‚” he gives at the White House in front of the president and many
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Allison Funk Mrs. Tinberg 4th Period 29 February 2024 The Perils of Indifference As you get locked into the Ghettos to be loaded on train cars for a long trip to Germany with occasional stops to get one or two buckets of food and water‚ a train filled bugs and things no one wants to be around‚ and finally what feels like a journey with no end you wait in boredom for a change. When they get there‚ unloading takes what feels like years and you often get by clubs. You look up and see a sign that reads
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The Dangers of Indifference Indifference is the lack of interest‚ concern‚ or sympathy that indirectly influences Elie Wiesel and Ishmael Beah. Elie Wiesel is a World War II veteran who spreads awareness to the suffering of others in the world through his powerful speeches. Ishmael Beah is a former child soldier and a Civil War survivor who‚ like Wiesel‚ spreads awareness to those whom are silenced in the world. Both men had fallen to be victims of indifference‚ for both were abandoned by society
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Perils of Indifference Wiesel develops his assertion by providing references to events in which action‚ rather than indifference‚that could have saved countless lives; for example‚ Wiesel mentions both world wars‚ the assassinations of the Kennedys and Dr. Martin Luther King jr.‚ and also of the numerous civil wars. Wiesel’s purpose is to inspire people to act and help the children in this world that are dying every minute from violence‚ hunger‚ and disease. The intended audience for this speech
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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
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Ellie Wiesel portrays the full effect of indifference during his speech “The Perils of Indifference” by using firm language choices‚ to emphasize indifference. With the use of diction‚ alongside the use of efficacious allusions‚ he reveals the suffering “behind the black gates of Auschwitz” and presents how Jews “felt abandoned by humanity”. He impudently questions the reader “Have we really learned from our mistakes?”. He aches to get his point across‚ to allow people to look at themselves and see
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According to the speech‚ it talks that indifference is worse than hate or anger because people will not have solidarity or take care on each other anymore due to this horrible emotion. On the one hand‚ when people stand idly by and do nothing‚ they become accomplices to a crime against other human beings.Elie Wiesel gives an example about his own experience during Holocaust: “ Synagogues burned‚ thousands of people put in concentration camps. And that ship‚ which was already in the shores of the
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In the speech he says how thankful he is for the americans for how mad they were at Germany when they saved him. His big main idea in the speech is indifference. He says that indifference means “no difference.”. So the speech is saying doing nothing is not just a sin it is a punishment. He also says that it is more dangerous than anger and hatred. Lastly‚ we read Eli’s Nobel peace prize acceptance speech. In this speech
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In response‚ in the article “Elie Wiesel’s The Perils of Indifference” by Elie Wiesel‚ he recalled that when American soldiers liberated his camp he saw how angry they were at witnessing the events that occurred there (Paragraph 2). American civilians had no idea about what was happening to the Jewish people
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