Intervene In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

As my friends bickered over calling emergency services, I had a realization: we are not the professional help this girl may need. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, no matter how hard people try to help, it is not their responsibility to intervene. People should not intervene because it is not their place to help, when someone who is trained can.

Intervening is depicted as being 'helpful,' but in reality, it can escalate a situation to dangerous degrees. As stated in chapter 4, "An ordinary inmate does not have the right to mix into other people's affairs (Wiesel 57)." Elie had stepped into a situation that he was not supposed to be a part of. He later faced the consequences and would not have had to if he just did not intervene. Wiesel did not have to face a beating if he had not made a sound and kept walking on. This is not the only reason to intervene, people are, often, not the professional help someone could potentially need.

I acted as her personal therapist and dreaded when she talked to me. I was not trained nor had the mental capacity to help her. Likewise, to the scene in chapter 8, "You cannot help home anymore. And you are hurting yourself (Wiesel 111)." Elie was not the professional help his father needed, he acted in place of the doctors that refused the accommodate Shlomo. Wiesel could have helped if he and the training and education, but alas, he was only a teenager in the middle of a genocide. Now reaching the last point, whether helping is the morally responsible choice and ethically right