The Power of Speaking Out

     Without help the victim will always fail in the fight for freedom. Silence only helps the oppressor as they continue to do their crimes and they feel no punishment for their actions. In Elie Wiesel's Night, the horrors of the concentration camps are made even worse with the silence that entangles the victims. "Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere" (Wiesel 81). Whenever people are suffering, it is the responsibility of others to help. They feel helpless with all the pain they had to experience as they felt no one was trying to help them. They feel alone and many lose hope, the one thing necessary for survival. Without it one loses the will to fight their oppressor and becomes silent to their pain. In North Korea, they are shutout to the rest of the world, the government, the oppressor has completely silenced a whole nation. Without our help they will fall even deeper into their torture and can never be brought back out again. They need to hear our cries and know they have help here for them. This can be the thing that helps them survive their torture and receive their freedom. Without hope that someone out there is fighting with you, even the strongest can fall.

Wiesel, Elie. Night. Bantam ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1982. Print.