Question

ELIE WIESEL’S “THE PERILS OF INDIFFERENCE” SPEECH How do paragraphs 14-15 contribute to the development of the text’s central idea?

Answer 1

Paragraphs 15-16 contributes to the devolpment of the text's central idea by telling us how even though the U.S. knew about the struggles of the Jews during a span of the Holocaust they showed indifference, explepfing how indiffernce towards human suffering allowed future suffering and pain. " Roosevelt was a good man, with a heart. He understood those who needed help. Why didn’t he allow these refugees to disembark? (Paragraph 16)." Roosevelt was a good man, with a heart who understood who needed help and he did help 3 years later. This shows how indifference runs deep even in the best of men. Roosevelt didn't allow the refugees to disembark and suffering and pain of the Jews continued unil empathy drilled deeper into the skulls of the U.S.A. prompting them to act. The Holocaust exemplifies how indifference toward human suffering allows further struggling and pain such as when Rooselevelt showing indifference to the Jews and the human suffering was allowed for more suffering.

Answer 2

Paragraphs 14-15 of Elie Wiesel's "The peril's of indifference speech" contributed to the central idea of the text because Wiesel talks in ironic way about the holocaust in Auschwitz by saying that the government of other countries if they knew what was happening to the Jews under Hitler's ruling, would have helped them. but the world knew the situation and did nothing to avoid many deaths that occured hence the name "perils of indifference'

Step-by-step explanation:

In parapraph 14-15 Wiesel's says that in those darkest times inside the death camps, they felt abandoned and forgotten and that their consolation was that they believe that Auschwitz and Trablinka were closely guarded secrets and believed that the free world leaders did not know what was going on and that if they knew in their thought, believes the leaders would have intervened. but they later found out that the leaders knew what was happening.

Elie Wiesel and his family was taken by the Nazis to the Auschwitz extermination camp and brutalized in 1944. He gave this speech "perils of indifference' at the white house in 1999 where he talked about their time in captivity and how apathy can be dangerous because himself and others felt abandoned there.