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Analysis Of Elie Wiesel's Night: Prevention Of Racial Discrimination

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Prevention of racial discrimination. Throughout history, there have been instances where racial discrimination has caused tremendous pain and suffering amongst those considered to be inferior. When thinking of racial discrimination throughout history, two events come to mind. One being the holocaust occurring during WWII, and the other being slavery in America during the 1700’s. These periods of time sadly go unmentioned in this day and age, only being discussed in classrooms, to the dismay of the students. Even in the classroom, a good portion of the information given is not from the perspective of the oppressed, and if it is, it’s heavily deluded. This is because topics of great suffering are considered “taboo” or “unspeakable.” These events should not be considered unspeakable, “We should speak of it often. We should speak of it loudly,” (Pierce, 1) as to prevent it from occurring again. These, and similar messages, are represented in two texts, highlighting personal experiences of Elie Wiesel, and Olaudah Equiano throughout these two times in history. Night, written by Elie Wiesel, tells of Wiesel’s experiences during the holocaust. As presented in the preface, Elie’s reasoning for writing Night was to inform the …show more content…

Their telling of the events during such times as these, and the use of literary devices to get these points across, give an important lesson to the readers. This lesson being not only to keep the memory of these events alive, but to also prevent such an event from happening. Although Equiano’s text was written also to stop slavery at the time, its message has an important use today, just like Wiesel’s, to prevent another mass homicide or enslavement. This is why reading and discussing texts such as these is

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