Why is Elie Wiesel's book "Night" relevant today?
- Date: April 10, 2006
- Level: High School, 12th grade
- Grade: A+
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In his book "Night", Elie Wiesel describes the horrors he had to go trough during Holocaust when Nazis took over Hungary. He was still a teenager at that time, at that experience had scared him for life. The book war written in the mid fifties the times when Soviet Union was still alive and well, and if Germany never started the war it would have been the USSR. The ideas of Lenin and Stalin weren't much different of Hitler's in its core. There was a lot of racism going on there too, and the crowd wouldn't be that hard to rise against others. The times of World War II seem to be really far away, and now we are again ...
... blood, they are not different from us, but still their ancestors were so easy to gather together under the flag of hate. Hate to everyone in the world besides themselves. The point is that it doesn't matter what kind of people you are trying to rise against others, they could be Germans, French, Russians, Americans or anyone else-it's not that hard. I don't think many people, especially in wealthier parts of this country, realize how it sometimes could be hard to be different from the majority. It's really easy to make people hate someone, but it's so much harder to teach them to stop hating and to treat them with respect. I know that there
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