Because the holocausts haven't stopped with WWII. Today, children, women...anyone unlucky enough to be born into a religion, ethnicity or race that is hated continues to die in every corner of the world. As "civilized" countries look the other way and think that sending "humanitarian aid" is enough of a response to atrocity. Genocide is defined as the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group. Wiesel's book Night, can show what it is like for people in other countries, living in times of genocide. If people read about the struggle Wiesel went through, they are more likely to help people in places like Rwanda, and Darfur. Someone in this society cannot even momentarily comprehend the violence that we witness on television, and can therefore see it before comfortably sitting down to our dinners. We have everything to live a comfortable life, and can't imagine living without the luxury of many of our possessions. One might feel bad for a Tutsi killed in Rwanda for awhile, but cannot understand what they are going through without having firsthand experience. Night provides us with this firsthand experience. Through Wiesel's experiences we can see through the eyes of every oppressed, hated, humiliated, and suffering person around the world.
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