Essay On First They Came By Elie Wiesel

I agree with Elie Wiesel’s statement that being a neutral bystander helps those who are evil and that remaining silent encourages even more evil to happen. Being silent can cause more harm to happen and it happens even if you push it away. To start, more evil happens when you are quiet. When you do not speak up then you are going to regret it in the end. In the poem First They Came, the author did not speak up for anyone and then no one was there to speak up for him. The longer he waited the less people that were there to stand up for him when it was the author’s turn to be taken. There were many groups in which the author should have stood up for them, but he did not and then he was taken himself. Another example is in Terrible Things where

all the animals kept being taken, but they did not stand up for each other. The animals instead explained all the reasons why it was good that the other animals were gone instead of saying the good characteristics of the animals. This is important, because had the animals spoken up then maybe the Terrible Things would not go as far as it did. As you can see, because even more harm happens when you are being silent, being a neutral bystander helps those who are dangerous. Another idea, wrong things happens even if you do not believe it. Harm is a little similar to when some people have an assignment and they wait until the last second to do it even though it is going to have to be done anyways. According to the book Night, the people kept veering the

harm into hope.

Hope is good to have, but, in the book, after a while, it became obvious what was happening yet the people still did not want to believe it. The people in the book kept trying to change it around where it was not evil, but in the long run, bad events were going to happen. In addition, in the excerpt of Night Moishe the Beadle warned everyone of what was to come, but no one believed him. Sometimes things can be hard to believe, but you should at least give the information a chance before you just get rid of it. The darkness still came even though Moishe explained what was to happen and had the people believed him then some could get away before anything bad happened, but they did not and instead suffered the consequences. To conclude, because the bad happens even if you push it away and not believe it, being a bystander helps those who are

despicable.

One idea is that horrible things happen even if you push it away, but some people will stop you from speaking up for what you think is right.

Many people have opinions, which will stop you from making your own opinion, but you should not listen to others. In the story The Wrong Side of the Fence, Bruno wanted to crawl underneath the fence to get to the other side of the fence, but Shmuel stopped him from doing it. This is an example of people stopping you, but another one is when people are debating and instead of you paying attention to what you feel, you pay attention to how many people are on each side, so that you have a better chance of winning. When you let those other people win and stop you from using your rights then you are not fighting for what you believe, but instead fighting for what you think is going to win. Sometimes people say what is the point of trying when you know you are going to lose, but if you don’t try then you lose the chance to win at all and instead look like a coward or quitter. To summarize, people may try to stop you or influence you, but you should have your own

opinion

on what is right and what is wrong and not let anyone stop you from showing it in your own way. To end with, because more evil happens and the bad happens even if you push it away, I agree that being a bystander helps people who are dangerous and being quiet allows even more harm to happen. When you are quiet then it will come back to you make it bad. Even if you do not believe what is happening or what someone tells you, it will still happen. Some people may try to stop you from expressing your beliefs and opinions, but you still should, because you should listen to other people. Being a bystander encourages the people that are evil and more.