Pathos In Night By Elie Wiesel

Wiesel wanted to make us feel sad and trust him by using pathos in the speech. At the beginning of the speech, he states, “Do I have the right to accept this great honor on their behalf? I do not. No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.” In this part of his talk, he tells the people that no one can ever make up for the loss of so many people in the concentration camps. He also talks about how the people who died there can never tell us how much they suffered. He then tells a short story about when he was in a concentration camp, but he describes it in the third person not feeling like Elie is talking to the reader directly. Then, he talks about how quickly it happened and how sad and confused