Elie Wiesel Rhetorical Speech Analysis Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor and winner of a Nobel peace prize, stood up on April 12, 1999 at the White House to give his speech, “The Perils of Indifference”. In Wiesel’s speech he was addressing to the nation, the audience only consisted of President Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, congress, and other officials. The speech he gave was an eye-opener to the world in his perspective. Wiesel uses a variety of rhetorical strategies and devices to bring lots of emotion and to educate the indifference people have towards the holocaust. “You fight it.
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” - Elie Wiesel Recently I read the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel which was a really touching and heartfelt and made me think about how sometimes people shouldn’t complain about what they don’t have, but be thankful for what they do have. People in our world today, don’t think or believe that the holocaust is all made up and not a real thing however, the Holocaust is something that needs to be remembered in American history. I think that this quote is saying that people sometimes just give up on things too easily instead of finding another way to do something.
Hannah Noel Mrs. Beaupre English 1 Honors 23 September 2016 Dialecticals 3-4 One passage that I think is interesting is, “No. Two steps from the pit we were ordered to turn to the left and made to go into the barracks” (Wiesel 25). With this quote the first thing that popped into my head was that these officers were petrifying the prisoners and making them think they were going to die and then at the last second turn them around. The fact that they did that is barbaric.
Elie Wiesel was truly a courageous figure during the torturous years of the Holocaust. In his best selling novel titled Night, Elie portrays many events that completely shatter most human rights laws established by modern day activists such as the United Nations. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, there are thirty different articles established to protect us from people violating our treasured human rights. Within the declaration, two articles really stand out for Elie’s situation such as article five and eighteen. Both of these articles accurately despic great human rights violations that were performed throughout Elie’s experience during the mournful Holocaust.
Elie Wiesel strives for peace in a tormented world and atonement for human dignity as he implores Ronald Reagan to reconsider his decision to visit a Bitburg cemetery, a site where graves of Hitler's Waffen SS were found. Wiesel, Jewish political activist and Holocaust witness, begins his address to President Reagan by setting his medal as a symbol inclusive of “all those who remember what SS killers have done”. Using an anecdote of his own personal experience, and a rhetorical question, Wiesel uses humour and an understatement to claim he learned “small things” over the last forty years; however, “the perils of language and those of silence” are anything but. This emphasizes the magnitude of their importance. His deliberate diction is evident
Elie Wiesel witnessed hundreds of deaths right before his eyes. The terrible event that was called the holocaust was ran by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party, in Germany and Eastern Europe in 1933 through 1945. All Jews and disabled people were burned, shot, hung and also drowned to death. Many were also sent to the "showers" were they would gas all the innocent people. The poems "To The Little Polish Boy Standing with his arms up" (By Peter Fischl) and Ellie Wiesels "Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech" and the poem "
The entire world was so ignorant to such a massacre of horrific events that were right under their noses, so Elie Wiesel persuades and expresses his viewpoint of neutrality to an audience. Wiesel uses the ignorance of the countries during World War II to express the effects of their involvement on the civilians, “And then I explain to him how naive we were, that the world did know and remained silent. And that is why I swore never to be silent when and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation” (Weisel). To persuade the audience, Elie uses facts to make the people become sentimental toward the victims of the Holocaust. Also, when Weisel shares his opinion with the audience, he gains people onto his side because of his authority and good reputation.
Throughout life many people are put into unavoidable situations where they must make a decision that has a great impact on the rest of their life. In many of these circumstances the choices are unavoidable and are often resulting in no win situations, leaving them as choiceless choices. In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, the main character and author, Elie, is put through many tough decision making opportunities as he was a survivor of the holocaust. He experiences several different events leading up to decisions he must make about himself. The decisions he faced would leave a lasting effect on his family.
Night Critical Abdoul Bikienga Johann Schiller once said “It is not flesh and blood, but the heart which makes us fathers and sons”. But what happens when the night darkens our hearts our hearts? The Holocaust memoir Night does a phenomenal job of portraying possibly the most horrifying outcomes in such a situation. Through subtle and effective language, Wiesel is able to put into words the fearsome experiences he and his father went through in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. In his holocaust memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel utilizes imagery to show the effect that self-preservation can have on father son relationships.
Night by Elie Wiesel shows when humans are put in horrible situations, the acts of selfishness greatly increase. The book shows that when humans are in crisis like the Holocaust everyone is desperate to survive, so they will do anything they can to get their basic needs. The people forgot who they are as human, and how it made Elie and others act differently towards each other. Elie Wiesel, and everyone who he meets along the way want to survive this, at times they forget why they want to live. But no one wants to get defeated by the Germans.
Eli’s story started when he was a young very religious teenage boy who was apart of the unfavorable group during the Holocaust, and unlike Eli, Paul was an adult and he was apart of the prefered group during the genocide he experienced. Obviously Eli and Paul didn't have the exact same experiences. because they were apart of two different genocides. Eli went through the Holocaust during World War II as a Jew so he didn't have much if any control at all when it came to loved ones. Paul experienced the genocide in Rwanda, and he was Hutu which was the more favorable group
Evan Bautista Ms. Valdez English 10 27 March 2023 The Art of Genocide In the 20th century, an estimated 200 million people died due to genocide. Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or group with the intention of destroying them. The novel Night written by Elie Wiesel follows him and his father’s journey during the Holocaust, moving from concentration camp to concentration camp.
Reading "Night" by Elie Wiesel drastically influenced my view on life. The horrendous depictions of life during the holocaust era described by Elie was traumatizing. Reading each line in the book gave me goosebumps. Imaging that a time era in which jews were oppressed to that of a gruesome extent is beyond conceivable. The book allowed me to reassess my life.
The comfort of one’s home is an almost indescribable feeling, characterized by the open arms of the ones you love and a space where you have the freedom to do as you choose. For the millions of Jewish people living in Europe during World War II, this statement was far from the truth. Families, like Elie Wiesel’s, were removed from their homes and forced to live in ghettos. They faced atrocious circumstances that would only get worse with time, as their fate was to eventually be moved to horrid concentration camps. Their existence became one of pain, suffering and misery, and it all started in the slums that became their homes.
To find a man who has not experienced suffering is impossible; to have man without hardship is equally unfeasible. Such trials are a part of life and assert that one is alive by shaping one’s character. In the autobiographical memoir Night by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, this molding is depicted through Elie’s transformation concerning his identity, faith, and perspective. As a young boy, Elie and his fellow neighbors of Sighet, Romania were sent to Auschwitz, a macabre concentration camp with the sole motive of torturing and killing Jews like himself. There, Elie experiences unimaginable suffering, and upon liberation a year later, leaves as a transformed person.
