Notes: This is for "Oprah's National High School Essay Contest"
Thats all, Icey out.
Why Night Is Still Relevant..
�We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim like fish in the sea, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. Our abundance has brought us neither peace of mind nor the serenity of the spirit,� stated Martin Luther King. Elie Wiesel has given us a touching record of the horrid events of what happens when we do not work together as brothers and sisters. If we segregate groups off and than take that hatred much father than it ever should be taken to events in Night may occur again and thus why Night is still relevant to this day.
Human death and suffering is always significant. Death is unavoidable, something we as humans have to live with. Unlike death, suffering, pain, and unnecessary killing should not be part of our world. It is when we become numb to human pain that our civilization as a whole will be in real trouble.
Even though the approximate 7,300 victims from hate crimes yearly is only a handful in comparison to the 6,220,000 victims from the holocaust. Just the plain fact that crimes like these still exist today is a startling thought. If we allow these crimes to continue someday that 7,000 mark will reach up to the millions. Hopefully, with first hand examples like Night we will be reminded how wrong the nature of hate crimes are.
Segregation is even seen on a smaller scale. Millions of children daily are teased and mocked over small things like not having the most stylish items of clothing. Making the child stand out in the slightest way. No matter how small of scale of segregation, any and all discrimination is still unjust. In Night the crimes to the Jews started out small. First only foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet, but the evicted were soon forgotten. The citizens of Sighet didn�t know what was truly going on. The same thing may still happen if we do not seek the truth, and right the current wrongs.
We most not forget that everything Hitler did was legal, and everything that so many others did to help improve the world was illegal. We need to remember what used to be good than strive to continue on that path. It was once said for those who no not study history will be destined to repeat it. Night is chilling example of what our history can turn into if we do not remember what we have learned from this book. That is why Elie Wiesel's Night remains to be relevant decades later.
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Whereas, is it the responsibility of all mankind to hold up the lower class? Yes, children are discriminated against for their styles and their clothing, while not their fault, all of society cannot be responsible to provide the funds that would make it even, and even were we to do so, would we not be stifling creativity and individuality by forcing everything into uniformity? Or, are we supposed to become socialists? Where everyone shares with everyone in equality?