Question
Indifference elicits no response Indifference is not a response.
Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore,
indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the
aggressor
never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he
or she feels forgotten. The political prisoner in his cell, the hungry
children, the homeless refugees
not to respond to their plight,
not to relieve their solitude by offering them a spark of hope is to
exile them from human
memory.
And in denying their humanity,
we betray our own
Which part of this excerpt best contributes to Wiesel's central argument
that it is
wrong to be indifferent to human suffering?
A. And in denying their humanity, we betray our own.
• B. Indifference elicits no response.
C. The political prisoner in his cell, the hungry children, the homeless
refugees
D. Suffering is never relieved by indifference.
Answer
A. And in denying their humanity, we betray our own.