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Essay / Indifference in the Night by Elie Wiesel: a poison that...
In the novel “The Night” by Elie Wiesel, the author shows the transformation and evolution of the average human being , through a horrible experience that he personally went through. When he is transported from one place to another, forced to leave everything behind, to live in the ghettos, then in a horrible concentration camp. In the concentration camp, Elie experiences numerous events that severely test his physical and mental limits. Some of these events made him question his faith and wonder if God exists, changing him from a conservative Jew to a reformist Jew. Elie doesn't like concentration camps, but he doesn't hate them, in fact, he doesn't care about them anymore. During a conference in 1986, Elie explained: “The opposite of love is not hatred, it is indifference.” (Elie Wiesel), which means that the opposite of love is not hatred, it is getting used to the situation, to the point that the person does not care if what happens is good or wrong. In the novel, Elie experiences physical, mental, and spiritual pain that tests his humanity and morality. First, physical pain. In concentration camps, the most important thing is to survive, and the only way to do that is to blindly follow orders and not upset the person in charge. But it seems that even if you don't do anything, you still get into trouble, and the only reason is that the Kapo is in a bad mood. In the concentration camps, the inmates are used to violence, violence surrounds them everywhere, whether it is the rifles on the shoulders of the guards, the whip in the hands of the Kapo, or simply the treatment reserved for them. their fellow prisoners. The camps turn humans into animals, forcing a son to kill his own father for a piece of bread or soup. Elijah suffers violence...... middle of paper ...... in today's world, these people always choose ignorance over reason. Most people choose ignorance as a defense mechanism to stop thinking about these problems, they don't realize that by doing this they become more indifferent and lose one of the most important traits that make them human , compassion. Without compassion, humans would become animals and the world we live in would turn into a jungle. As Edmund Burke warned, "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing," he warned the world that if they do not stand up for evil, it will this one will win. Elie Weisle also explains "The opposite of love is not hatred, it is indifference", meaning that if the world does not end their ignorance and start showing compassion the towards each other, you might as well say goodbye to their precious world because that’s not the case. I'm going to stay here for a very long time.