Overcoming The Truth In Luigi Pindello's War

Writer, Elie Wiesel in his metaphorical speech “The perils of Indifference” argues that the future will never know the agony of the Holocaust and they will never understand the tragedy of the horrific terror in Germany. Wiesel wants people to not let this happen but at the time many modern genocides that are occurring and people shouldn’t be focused on just the Holocaust, they should focus on making this world a better place; moreover, Wiesel expresses his thoughts about all the genocides that has happen throughout the years. He develops his message through in an horrifying event that took place 54 years ago the day “ The perils of Indifference” was published. Wiesel illustrates the indifferences of good vs evil. He develops this message

He was finally free, no joy filled his heart but abandonment was drowning it. How dangerous is indifference to humankind as it pertains to suffering and the need for conscience understanding when people are faced with unjust behaviors? Elie Wiesel is an award winning author and novelist who has endured and survived hardships. One of the darkest times in history, a massacre of over six million Jews, the Holocaust and Hitler himself. After the Holocaust he went on and wrote the internationally acclaimed memoir “Night,” in which he spoke out against persecution and injustice across the world. In the compassionate yet pleading speech, ¨Perils of Indifference,¨ Elie Wiesel analyzes the injustices that himself and others endured during the twentieth century, as well as the hellish acts of the Holocaust through effective rhetorical choices.

Elie Wiesel has given the listener a wonderful opportunity to feel the intense movement of his speech, “The Perils of Indifference”. His speech is centered around the need for vigilance in the face of evil. Throughout this speech, with which he moved so many, he shared his experience with being sent to Buchenwald, a concentration camp, the treacherous conditions in which they were living, and the way that indifference has separated human beings. He explained, that through anger and hatred a great poem or symphony can be written, because “One does something special for the sake of humanity because one is angry at the injustice that one witnesses.” (Wiesel, 1999/16, p. 78). The three strategies that will be explored throughout this analysis are ethos, logos, and pathos.

Truth is possibly one of the most powerful forces in humanity. Truth has the power to set people free, change lives and end them. Because of this, the truth is usually feared and often concealed. In Susan Griffin’s “Our Secret”, the concealing of the truth become a major theme in the advancement of the plot, and also carries the meaning to the work’s title. The title of “Our Secret” refers to the secrets that the individual characters in the story keep from others reference to the fact that humanity is keeping secrets from itself.

Yet those who did not accept their fate, took control of their own destiny during the Holocaust. These heroic individuals never had indifferences and took matters into their own hands. Three teens know as “The White Rose” decided to spread the word of possible “freedom by creating and distributing pamphlet”(“PROTEST OF YOUTH”). Yet upon the guards discovering of their plans, they were sentenced to death for their crime they have done. This correlates to Wiesel speech which all “gave into indifferences” including his own “God”(The Perils of Indifference). With no form of guidance and hope driven from others to show human emotion, the teen’s came to the realization that the only way they may be able to stand a chance seeing freedom from the camp was herself. Thus, with the knowledge of the teens fate, we must come to a understandment that to see hope for a future world without indifferences.We must learn showing a helping hand in signs genocide such as the holocaust and not wait.

On the 12th of April, in the year 1999, Elie Wiesel gave a speech at the White House. Several members of congress, President Clinton, and the First Lady, Hillary Clinton, were present to listen to him. His speech became a powerful testament to the pitfalls and dangers of being indifferent to the sufferings of others. However, Wiesel’s speech was also a very skillful exercise in using rhetoric for persuasion. By using certain wording and striking the right balance of facts and emotions, he was moving the audience in the direction of understanding his point of view. He was moving the audience to not feel sympathy, but actual empathy to the events he was speaking about. To feel the as closely as he felt for these events in history. He acted as judge, jury, disappointed parent and as vengeful deity. In this paper, I will examine key elements of his speech to show that by instilling deep feelings of shame, fear, and even pride at the right moments can inspire people to open their minds to the dangers of ignoring the pleads of help from their fellow man.

The general argument made by Elie Wiesel in his speech “The Perils of Indifference,” is that we need to open our eyes and realize that not everything can be sunshine and flowers all the time. More specifically, Wiesel emphasizes that the world needs to be aware and to empathize towards the victims of those of us that have

Writer, Elie Wiesel in his moving speech, “The Perils of Indifference” asserts that indifference is dangerous and recognized as inhumane. Wiesel supports his message through the emphases of the darkness behind indifference. For instance, the definition for indifferent is identified as “A strange and unnatural state” or “lines blur between light and darkness, crime and punishment, cruelty and compassion, and good and evil.”(pg 1, par. 6) Which helps emphasize the need for awareness to end indifference in order for generations to protect their future. In addition, Wiesel aims to recognize how further generations can never fix mistakes, but only learn from them. The author’s purpose is to inform today’s audience, and future generations, how indifference is the worst possible feeling; therefore, individual understand how this could be a possible risk. He creates a informative tone for readers by using stylistic devices such as foreshadowing, similes, and alliteration in order to achieve his message that defines the effects of indifference so we can stop a series of unfortunate events from happening. Wiesel’s message about the inhumanity of indifference and the importance of resistance is still relevant today.

1. b) The conflict in the story War is an internal conflict within the fat traveler. The fat traveler lost his son and tried to hide his lamentation by being judicious. In the story he gave a speech to the other parents who travelled on the train informing them how their sons were born not only for the parent’s benefits. “If country is a natural necessity like bread, of which each of us must eat in order not to die of hunger, somebody must go to defend it.” Here the fat man advises the parents that if they really do love their country sending their sons out to protect it should make them feel proud.” Everyone should stop crying: everyone should laugh, as I do… or at least thank God, as I do, because my son…..the best way he could have

By biological logic, we human beings will face death sooner or later in our life and death has its very own ways to approach us - a sudden deadly strike, a critical sickness, a tragic accident, a prolonged endurance of brutal treatment, or just an aging biological end. To deal with the prospect of death come different passive or active reactions; some may be scared and anxious to see death, some try to run away from it, and some by their own choice make death come faster. But Viktor Frankl, through his work Man’s Search for Meaning, and Bryan Doyle; in his essay “His Last Game” show us choices to confront the death, bring it to our deepest feelings, meaningful satisfaction. To me, the spirit of the prisoners at deadly concentration camps, Frankl’s Logotherapy theory of “. . . striving to find a meaning in one’s life is the primary motivational force in man.” (99), as well as the calmness of Doyle’s brother on his last ride, like an awaken bell, remind us of how precious life is, how we should find the significance in every act of living, determine to live a meaningful life at any circumstances; hence, when death comes, we can accept it without anxiety nor regrets.

Ignored by the community, the first symbol of indifference is sparked, provoking the detrimental chain reaction of events to follow. “He [Moshe the Beadle] only spoke of what he had seen. But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen. Some said he only wanted their pity...others said that he had gone mad.” (7) Elie Wiesel delivers a writing style that mirrors that of a reporter; its simplicity becomes its complexity. In turn, it enables the flaws of human nature to become obvious to the reader, in this case the community’s need to rationalize the frightening and seemingly impossible, which are

Hawthorne’s parable says, “For the Earth, too, had on her Black Veil.” This statement shows how it is not just people that keep secrets of death and sorrow, but the Earth also harbors such

Elvis Presley once said, “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain 't goin ' away.” Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave relates to this quote by focusing on the truths of reality that humans do not comprehend. We think that we understand what we are seeing in our world, but we really just perceive shadows of the true forms of the things that make up the world. We are ignorant about the true nature of reality. The novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry also involves these concepts. The main character, Jonas, lives in a community of conformity and conflict. When he begins to spend time and train with The Giver, an old man who is the only keeper of the community 's memories, Jonas discovers the unsafe truths of his community 's secret past. Once Jonas discovers the reality about his community, it constantly pesters him until he makes an important decision. Jonas realizes that he must escape from his world in order to make a long needed change for his community. As the prisoner from The Allegory of the Cave seeks knowledge outside of the cave, Jonas from The Giver discovers dark and deadly truths of his community’s secret past that will change his life forever.

Two versions of the same image, one with simple colors and one with vivid imagery. Version A shows how knowledge can lead people to seeing past barriers set up by higher powers, while Version B expands on this notion. Version B shows that lack of knowledge leads to ignorance, and that ignorance can mean bliss for those who have no idea what lies on the other side of the barrier. Knowledge allows people to see the truth. Therefore, Version B is the more true picture.

This quotation shows how essential the reality is. A part of the quote which is ‘Reality hurts our eyes’ means that most of us cannot accept easily the reality we encounter in our lives. When we talk about reality, it feels different and unusual because most of us used to lie especially on situations where in we are already cornered and the only thing we do is to lie instead of saying the truth. Even though our physical characteristics are different from our mental and emotional aspects, sometimes what we feel deep inside affects what we feel outside. This part tells us also that, although we can keep into ourselves the truths of our life, there is our eyes which witnessed everything and cannot keep us from seeing the truth. Another important part is ‘but at least it helps us see clearer when we are blurred by the sight of beautiful lies’ it tells us, though reality might ruin a life, the truth is the truth, nothing can change it. We must believe that reality helps us to get back on track or change for the better, and not to change our whole life for the worst.