The differences that exist throughout our community, the nation, and the world, greatly affect a person. Some struggle every day to attain tolerance and enlightenment and avoid ignorance and prejudices. Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines prejudice as a "preconceived judgment or opinion" and "an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics." In the unit on tolerance we read and viewed many examples of literature that opened the audience's minds and hearts to turn them to unity, enlightenment, and tolerance. Both Elie Wiesel's Night and Sonia Schreiber Weitz's I Promised I Would Tell, as well as the documentary, "The Last Days," truly captured how people can be affected by the bigotry which exists in our world. All three had the purpose to demonstrate how ignorance, prejudice, and separation can negatively shape someone and their life.
             Elie Weisel's Night is a very short yet powerful book that every person should read. It gives you a personal, thought provoking, and unforgettable message of the horrors man can inflict on his fellow man. This book is Wiesel's message to us that we must not allow this kind of nightmare to be repeated. Being a Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel wrote this to remind people of this atrocity and to justify how so many people died while the world remained silent and unaware of what was truly happening. This book truly enlightened me and brought me to realize how the world's ignorance allowed for the separation and murder of the Jewish race. It grasped the importance of forgetting hatred, bigotry, and intolerance despite cultural or religious differences.
             While viewing "The Last Days," I realized how hard it was for the survivors to open their hearts and bring back these painful, unbearable memories of their past experiences. After watching the footage from the concentratio...