Silence In Elie Wiesel's Night

If you’re silent then how can you stand up for yourself when you’re getting bullied? How can you stand up for yourself or defend yourself if you’re getting punched? Silence is a lot of times the lack of standing up for yourself and a very common result of that is violence. Silence can perpetuate violence in two main ways and those ways are shown in Elie Wiesel’s Night and the movie, Boy in Striped Pajamas.
First of all, in Elie Wiesel’s Night, there is a scene in the book exactly showing how silence can perpetuate violence. Idek had gotten mad for a reason that Elie has no idea and Idek takes it out on Elie, “As I bit my lips in order not to howl with pain, he must have mistaken my silence for defiance and so he continued to hit my harder”(Wiesel 53). This is an exact example of silence perpetuating violence. But, not all violence is physical and that is shown in bullying even in today’s society. Unless you tell someone or the person that is bullying you that they’re hurting you
There is a prime example in the movie, Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Bruno, the main character in the storyline, moves to Berlin with his family because his father is promoted to being the commandant of the concentration camp that is basically in their backyard. Well, one day Bruno goes exploring and finds a boy at the other side of the fence in the concentration camp. Bruno is kind of a clueless kid, but knew enough to know that Shmuel, the boy on the other side of fence, was in trouble and he was not doing so well. But instead of telling his mother or anybody he kept Shmuel a secret and that eventually led to a lot more serious problems...and eventually violence. This shows silence perpetuating violence because Bruno could’ve helped his friend but instead, by being silent increased the violence upon himself and his