The Perils of Indifference: Symbols, Motifs, and Rhetorical Devices
The Perils of Indifference: Symbols, Motifs, and Rhetorical Devices
The Young Jewish Boy
In "The Perils of Indifference," Elie Wiesel talks about a young Jewish boy from the Carpathian Mountains who was liberated from "a place of eternal infamy called Buchenwald" in 1945 (2). You know...
The St. Louis
We'll admit that we usually feel warm-and-fuzzily patriotic when we think about the actions of the U.S. of A. during the World War II era. But when we hear about the actions of the government when...
Righteous Gentiles
The upside of what Wiesel is saying—the silver lining of the storm cloud "indifference kills"—is that action and compassion can save lives.Take the Righteous Gentiles: But then, there were huma...