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Essay / The theme of relational violence among adolescents at night by...
In the eyes of Elie Wiesel, author of Night, indifference, whether it's relationship violence or another issue, is mentally damaging and must be eliminated. In his memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel illustrates how indifference can harm the victim's mind when he says: "I will never forget the nocturnal silence which deprived me for eternity of desire to live” (Night 34). Wiesel talks here about his first night in Auschwitz. When he talks about the silence, he is referring to the indifference that the Jews in the concentration camps faced from the rest of the world. Wiesel refers to that night as the moment he lost his will to live because he saw so much indifference towards the suffering of the inmates and the horrible things happening to them. After that, his desire to stay alive was destroyed because he saw the world standing idly by, indifferent to the senseless murder of millions of people. Through this, Wiesel illustrates that indifference will impact people for the rest of their lives. Because indifference