He wanted to convey that indifference is worse than hate or anger. One could be angry at injustice or hate evil, violent acts Indifference is the absence of compassion and implies something worse than outright hate; indifference implies a lack of acknowledgment. Being indifferent to another's suffering is like saying, 'you're suffering is not even worth my consideration.' Wiesel speaks from his experience of the Holocaust, but this could be applied to any situation in history in which the world was indifferent; in which the world willfully refused to acknowledge suffering of others for any number of unjustifiable reasons: 1) out of sight, out of mind, 2) passivity, laziness, 3) an untried feeling of hopelessness ('what could i possibly do?'), 4) selfishness. When Wiesel speaks of indifference he also means ignorance in 3 senses: 1) ignorant as in lacking sensitivity, 2) lacking knowledge and 3) ignoring. The 'perils of indifference' could be described as the 'the terrible outcomes of ignoring atrocities. Apply this to anything today, where suffering is ignored by indifferent people and governments. (i.e., Darfur, Haiti). The peril of indifference would be to allow (allow by ignoring = indifference) an atrocity like the Holocaust to occur again.
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The best answer to the question that is being presented above would be the last statement. The technique that authors use to develop characters is describing a character through his or her physical appearance, actions, and dialogue.
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Answer: B. adjective
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The part of speech refers to the syntactic function of a word. Arid is an adjective which means that it is primarily a modifier for nouns or phrases acting as nouns.
For instance, ''<em>the Sahara desert is arid.''</em> Arid here modifies Sahara desert by letting the reader know that the Sahara desert lacks rainfall and is too dry to support agriculture.
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Cambridge English Dictionary defines "terrible" as "very unpleasant or serious or bad."
So, terrible is a synonym of feeling bad. In the given paragraph, the lines " Ian felt terrible." and "He felt very badly" are repetitions of each other.
The sentences " Ian felt terrible. He felt very badly about not watching his sister. He made a resolution to be a better brother in the future.
" in this paragraph can be combined to eliminate repetition most effectively in the following way :
A) Ian felt very badly about not watching his sister, so he made a resolution to be a better brother in the future.
