Analysis Of Elie Wiesel: The Perils Of Indifference

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Elie Wiesel is a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust and a Nobel Prize winner. Elie Wiesel delivered once again one of his famous speeches the “The Perils of Indifference”, which was hosted by the White House and accompanied by the President of the United States Barrack Obama and Secretary Hillary Clinton and other fellow government officials. When Elie Wiesel was giving out his speech, Elie Wiesel was warning the American people or the millenniums of the dangers of indifference, using his own personal experience to influence the millenniums and American people.
Elie Wiesel “The Perils of Indifference,” also, is one of the influential speeches because he uses his own personal experience. For instance, Elie Wiesel states “Rooted in our tradition, some of us felt that to be abandoned by humanity then was not the ultimate. We felt that to be abandoned by God was worse than to be punished by Him.” Considering humanity has given up on them and saying being abandoned by God is ultimately the worst punishment than being punished by God himself. Elie Wiesel describes how he feels being in the camp as a prisoner and questioning his faith if he will ever be relieved from the camp in which he resides.
Elie Wiesel also states “He was finally free, but there was no joy …show more content…

Which contributes to him using pathos to support his ethos and ethos to support his logos and getting his point across to the audience. Elie Wiesel has the authority to retell his own personal experience being that he was the one who experience the event first hand. That has made an emotional and sympatric appeal to his audience to change their outputs on indifference so they can fight off

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