Raise Questions About Bystanders Role In Elie Wiesel's Night

Imagine yourself sitting in a store resting after a long day of shopping, and the next thing you know is an innocent person is being hit in front of you and others; ten minutes pass and the person is still being beaten now you may be asking yourself “Why are people not doing nothing about this?” but the real question is “Why have you not tried to stop it or call 911?”. In the two articles, “Gang Rape Raises Questions About Bystanders’ Role”, by Stephanie Chen, “The Nuremberg Trials”, and the novel Night by Elie Wiesel show how bystander apathy and obedience to authority effect the way a human being reacts to an emergency. But a person’s responsibility when another’s human rights are being violated should be to help stop it before it becomes
From time to time you cannot do anything for a person because you could put yourself in danger, like when all Elie could do was “watch the whole scene without moving... [He] kept quiet. In fact... [he] was thinking of how to get farther away so that... [he] would not be hit...” (Wiesel 62). Even thought he was a bystander there, and it was his father getting hit there was nothing he could possibly do, because he would ended up getting hit by Idek too. Some people may just “keep quiet out of fear...” because they do not want anything bad to happen to them “because snitching isn’t tolerated” in violent communities (Chen 14). Not being able to help when it is a family member or someone you know is like torched cause if you interfere with the others plans you will put yourself in a dangerous place. Before you take care of others you have you have to make sure that you are safe and in a good place because if you end up getting hurt their no point on trying, cause more will end up hurt. Night and “Gang Rape Rises Questions about Bystanders’ Role” have reasons on why you wouldn’t be able to help in some