Good evening Ceciley:

You are missing work from your blog. Namely you are missing the 10 questions and topic that you were supposed to post Friday, April 14.  By not posting these questions, you have significantly delayed getting feedback from me and having a clear direction for your next essay.

Wiesel and Steinke

As children we are given certain tools and taught a handful of humanity laws by our parents and other adults. Humanity laws are laws that aren't documented by the official government or congress but are just known rules about how to respect and care for man-kind. The saying "help thy-neighbor" goes really far when the help is truly needed and cannot be achieved by the neighbor himself. As I was reading "The Perils of Indifference" by Elie Wiesel, I understood more of how vital it can be to help "thy- neighbor" when the help can save multiple lives.
Elie Wiesel wrote a speech and he performed his speech at the White house lecture in front of Bill and Hillary Clinton. In his speech he spoke about his experience as a little boy in the Holocaust and how his first feeling of liberation since the Holocaust began was that feeling he got after being rescued by American soldiers. He begins to define indifference after speaking about the violence that plays a part in American history, in World history. When he defines indifference he say's that it's easy to chose to be indifferent because it's like choosing no side, but when it comes to choosing no side it could also mean the victim of the antagonist will remain a victim in other words being indifference is like saying they do not care.
Like Elie Wiesel describes how being indifferent can negatively affect one side or the other, the author of Friendswood, Renee Steinke, gives a vivid imagery of how indifference played a role in the relationship of multiple characters in the story. A girl named Willa got raped after attending a day party at a football players house and one of her classmates and new friend-to-be, Dex, witnessed it happen and kept quiet about it. While she was being bullied and marginalized in school and the guys who initiated the rape were walking around acting like nothing happened, Dex was contemplating tellling someone. In the beginning of the story he was indifference about telling someone, anyone about what really happened to her to bring her situation to justice.
Wiesel and Steinke's examples of indifference both tied to how the consequences of not being able to choose a side especially for the sake of humanity, can cause the situations to escalate. The ending result of remaining indifference can also be chaotic and end a lot of lives.