Analysis Of Elie Wiesel's The Perils Of Indifference

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Indifference is tempting. Indifference is suffering of the victims. Indifference is more dangerous than anger and hatred. Indifference is seductive. Indifference is a blurred line between light and darkness.
Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel in his speech, The Perils of Indifference, implies the dangers of indifference. He develops his claim by first defining the lack of interest as being a “strange” and “unnatural” subject which goes their blurred lines in between light and darkness, then Wiesel defines indifference as “tempting” and “seductive” finally he compares indifference as being “more dangerous than anger and hatred.” Wiesel’s purpose is to define indifference in order to warn others about the indifferences so we can make an action. …show more content…
We have to all look out and try to inform ourselves on the people that surround us and we have to put ourselves in those people's shoes because we don't know what they went through or lived thru. We have to seek understanding
Indifference is …show more content…
We see how badly we have affected those people by not helping them when we knew what was happening we have learned to make a difference and to stand out to help others. We learn from the past and all the mistakes that have happened because everything happens for a reason. History is just another way for us to reflect as humans to understand what happened to those specific individuals. Indifference isn't just dangerous but so tempting. Society labels everyone and everything and that changes our perspectives on everything and everyone. We don't want to let that same mistake take action again. Our past has set a boundary and an example of what should and what shouldn't happen again. With this in mind many of
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