Rhetorical Devices In Elie Wiesel's Speech

Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor who strongly believes that people need to share their stories about the Holocaust with others. Elie Wiesel was in concentration camps for about half of his teen years along with his father. After being the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust he resolved to make what really happened more well-known. Elie Wiesel wrote dozens of books and submitted an essay titled “A God Who Remembers” to the book This I Believe. The essay focused on Elie Wiesel’s belief that those who have survived the Holocaust should not suppress their experiences but must share them so history will not repeat itself. Elie Wiesel’s essay, “A God Who Remembers,” was successful in both informing others about the Holocaust and

In which millions of Jews were innocently killed and persecuted because of their religion. As a student who is familiar with the years of the holocaust that will forever live in infamy, Wiesel’s memoir has undoubtedly changed my perspective. Throughout the text, I have been emotionally touched by the topics of dehumanization, the young life of Elie Wiesel, and gained a better understanding of the Holocaust. With how dehumanization was portrayed through words, pondering my mind the most.

The Holocaust was a dreadful and truly awful time period, people were dehumanized, and shamed into losing their faith while they experienced tragic and awful death and pain. One Jewish survivor documents his experiences with death in his memoir, ‘Night’, Elie Wiesel. The novel is filled with his tales of death, dehumanization, and faith throughout the concentration camp, Auschwitz. In Auschwitz, the Jews lost their innocence that they once had. In the novel, Night, Elie, his father, and his fellow Jews lost their innocence through dehumanization, loss of faith, and experience of death and violence.

In President Bush’s address to the nation, he uses many rhetorical devices. A rhetorical device is a literary device that is used to persuade the audience to support the argument made. Bush’s address uses Ethos, Logos, and Pathos. They were invented and studied by the famous greek philosopher Aristotle. Ethos appeals to credibility, Logos appeals to logic or reason, and Pathos appeals to the audience’s feelings. They form a triangle consisting of the speaker, the message, and the audience.

Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed many faith forever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence which deprived me for all eternity of desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things. Even if I am condemned to live as long as God him his self. NEVER'' (Berget). Ever since that day nothing was the same for Elie. Nobody could forget what had happened to all the innocent Jews. Elie Wiesel was a holocaust survivor he was the witness of many Jews death and unjust society. Elie and 2 of his older sisters survived the holocaust. After the holocaust Wiesel made a book needed night which explained how the concentration camps were. Right after all this was over Elie spent a few years in a French orphanage and in 1848 began to study in Paris at the Sorbonne. He became involved in any things after this. He wrote 57 books. ''Never shall I forget that night, the first night in the camp, which has turned my life into one of the longest nights in my life, seven times cursed and seven times scaled.''(elie

Wiesel’s speech, he begins to speak of legacy and how his century will be judged by its successor, harshly so, for its cold-hearted acts against humanity; incidentally, implying a sense of pathos to appeal to his audience’s sense of moral right and wrong. Continuing, he ventures into how so many could arrive at a state of existence that could be construed as worse than death itself. “The ‘Muselmanner,’ as they were called [as Wiesel explains it] . . . lie on the ground, staring vacantly into space, . . . no longer felt pain, hunger, thirst. They feared nothing. They were dead and did not know it” (Wiesel, 1999). Him choosing to take this approach and provide that bit of information coupled with his opinion of how his century will be judged, Elie Wiesel manages to effectively press upon the emotions of his listeners, painting portraits that they could all mentally envision or even recall. However, cautious as to not come off as manipulative or disingenuous regarding his gratitude towards the American people, he begins to further establish his credibility by explaining why he once felt so hopeless and stripped of

This whole speech is based on the ethos of Wiesel, conveying the message that he himself symbolizes humanity. Wiesel refers to his own experience during the Holocaust, the most infamous and evil event in history. Everyone likes stories, and Wiesel holds his audiences’ interests in his speech with his own story. Wiesel drags his audiences into his story, and his audiences will feel how grateful is this little boy toward the power of humanity. Opening the speech with a personal anecdote,

Eliezer Weisel had a peaceful young soul, spending day and night learning Kabbalah and Talmud like if he didn’t, he’d have no reason to continue breathing. But at the age of fifteen, he was removed from his home in the Jewish ghetto abruptly, never to return again. While he and many others in his small town of Sighet were warned about the death and destruction to come, no one listened. When Eliezer Wiesel finally made it out of the dehumanizing death camps, that small worshipper who had gone in, would never come back out.

The purpose of this research paper is to compare and contrast Elie Wiesel and Susan B. Anthony, and their collective contributions, especially to the human rights movement and history. To this extent, I should first like to pro-offer some biographical information as well as background as it relates to the two. Elie Wiesel survived the Holocaust, wrote poetry, received the Nobel Peace Prize, and he was a political activist. When Elie Wiesel delivered the speech “The Perils of Indifference,” he was already a recognized authority of political action and peace. In his speech, Wiesel describes himself as a trustworthy messenger. Susan B. Anthony was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th-century women's rights movement to introduce women's

The most important reason to study the Holocaust is to prevent history from repeating itself and to show the importance of preserving as much peace and faith in humanity as possible. The senseless murder of five to six million innocent people is something that society can never allow. Elie Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and the author of the book Night. In his book Wiesel gives an inside view of what it was like to live through that horrific time by vividly describing the killing, pain, and suffering the he witnessed and experienced himself. Wiesel convinces the readers to preserve any peace and faith that there is in the world. It is on the shoulders of future generations to ensure that

Imagine seeing a pit full of dead babies used as target practice for the german soldiers. Well during the holocaust the Jew’s and Elie Wiesel experienced this. The Holocaust was a genocide during World War 2 in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million Europeans Jews. These people were put in camps, separated from theirre family;, they had camps just for men and women they were seperated. All the children that aren't healthy and strong they would kill them and the babies were used as shooting practice. This is what Elie Wiesel experienced as teenager. He wrote a book called Night sharing his experience with us so we can at least get in image what had happened during the Holocaust.

By the end of the war, Elie Wiesel had lost his father in humanity and God. These two aspects that were so important to him prior to World War Two were eradicated from his personality. The loss of his baby sister and the execution of the child made him severely question his faith in God. The death of his father caused his loss of faith in the human race. The evils Wiesel was forced to experience were horrendous and terrifying. The holocaust is not an event humanity can ever forget, for all the pain it has

Even after the Jews were liberated, Wiesel still felt like a tormented survivor. Wiesel states, “Jewish children they haunt my writing” (Wiesel 18). As you can see, the graphic memories at the camps still strike back at Wiesel. Children in camps were starved, forced to work, and murdered. Wiesel is more likely to flashback about the children because of how young they were. Small children that have only been in the world for so little thought most of their future was going to be in a concentration camp. Which leads to Wiesel to keep remembering the children. Another statement by Wiesel is, “You, who never lived under a sky of blood, will never know what it is like” (Wiesel 18). Here Wiesel shows how tormented he is. Wiesel witnessed the damage caused by the Nazis. He remembers the physical damage that caused Jews to die. For example, the gassing, starvation, and burning of Jews. He also empathizes for the mental damage made. For example, the sadness and hopelessness of Jews trapped. The next statement by Wiesel is “I hear a voice within in me telling me to stop mourning the past” (Wiesel 17). The world continued and Wiesel still had troubles letting go. Wiesel knows how hard it is to let go of an event that only hurt himself, but the rest of the Jews. There are times when cannot simply let go. Only Wiesel and the rest of the 6 million Jews will know how this event affected

The well-known author Elie Wiesel’s dystopian society presents a world in which there is no rightness in anything with people being treated as if not humans and they soon become dehumanized while living in worst-case scenarios. The society is an illusion to a perfect utopian world to the offenders but to the others they are literally living in their worst nightmare. The Nazi supremacy is rising and they have a merciless hatred towards Jews. Elie Wiesel witnessed many horrific events and was ripped from his normal life when he was taken from his home and everyday routine by the Nazi Germans in 1944 just because of his religion, Judaism. He may have been a Jew before the events but after everything that occurred his faith became severely wounded

During Elie Wiesel’s time in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, he was met with the sentiment, “Forget where you came from; forget who you were. Only the present matters.” German forces at concentration camps echoed this sentiment to many persecuted ethnic Jews, attempting to shed their last shred of individuality. Elie Wiesel did not follow the words of his oppressors. Instead, Elie learned the importance of memory, despite the repeated attempts at stripping away his identity. Elie Wiesel’s writing has imparted the value of retaining individual memory with me.