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Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

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Throughout Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie recounts his experience in the concentration camps of the Holocaust. Elie, his father, and the millions of other prisoners endure horrific abuse and torture inflicted by the S.S. officers. Throughout the novel, Elie and the other prisoners survive being horribly tortured and bullied by the S.S. officers, while many people witnessed it, but did nothing to help. Bullying and the bystander effect are depicted throughout Wiesel’s novel, and Wiesel also addresses them in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.
Throughout his time in the concentration camps, Elie faces many instances of bullying and torture. Bullying is defined as the use of one’s power, or perceived power, to abuse, harass, or intimidate the victim, usually over a period of time. This makes it clear that the concentration camps were extreme and heinous forms of bullying because throughout the novel, Elie is starved, forced to work to exhaustion, beaten, and threatened with …show more content…

He talks about how no one should ever be bullied for their race, religion, etc. and he says that anyone who witnesses bullying taking place should step in and help the victim. Otherwise, even if they are neutral, they are helping the oppressor. He states that everyone should help the victims of bullying and abuse when he says, “Wherever men and women are persecuted for their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe” (Wiesel 118). Wiesel makes it clear that whenever an injustice, for example bullying, occurs, everyone should turn their attention to it, and do what it takes to help the victims. In his Nobel Peace prize acceptance speech, Elie Wiesel expresses that everyone should always help the victims of bullying, and never be neutral, because being a part of the bystander effect will always help the oppressor, never the

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