Being Blind In Night By Elie Wiesel

The central idea of choices impact the reader on a personal level. The Jews of Sighet choose to be blind to the bad things that are happening around them until it is too late. Just like many people in today’s society, they choose to be blind to the negative around until it is to late to stop. It also represents how a lot of people refuse to believe that their situation is bad, and choose to ignore the problem. People use their power of choice to refuse or ignore the negatives around themselves and others. The choice to be blind to something bad will eventually end up causing more negative effects on their lives than positive. During the forward, they author of the forward explains how Elie told him or her that, “...their blindness as they confronted a destiny from which they would still have time to flee…” (p: xvii). Elie explains that the Jews of Sighet were opting to be blind to the negative around them, and when they were finally choosing to see the light of their situation it was too late. They were already in the worst possible part. When I was five or six I was attacked by a dog, the dog had already tried biting me not to long before I was attacked by this same dog. Yet, I chose to be

Elie said, “But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen .” (p: 7). They chose to ignore what Moishe had to say when he escaped the horrible situations that he had to endure. People chose to ignore or flat out not believe what he was saying because he had no social authority, because he was poor. Just like in society people warn others of problems or situations that could impact them, and most of the time the person listening to the story does not believe a word of what they hear. Then when they come to regret what happened they try to warn others of the danger that is ahead of them, and then they are