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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.

No one gets everything they want or sometimes anything. Punishment can go to ordinary people who have done nothing wrong with their life while the most terrible people are left alone. This was the case with a young boy named Elie Wiesel. He goes through his life tough and broken after His horrific moments in the concentration camp. He gives up on his own religion without the blink of an eye. The author shows you how this came to be by using tone, repetition, and irony to give a more in depth look and feel on how he gives up his religion so quickly. It shows how alone and lost all of us are in this world when pressured into a terrible environment. Everyone goes through pain, suffering, and agony in their life but, it's how you make those times is the key to it

The Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, in the text, “The Perils of Indifference,” uses numerous of effective rhetorical strategies in order to build his credibility and engage his audience. Wiesel’s purpose is to persuade his audience to denounce indifference and act to stop the suffering and intolerance that occurs around the globe. Throughout the text, Wiesel describes historical events during the Holocaust and how indifference allowed for suffering and injustices to continue. Nevertheless, Wiesel acknowledges with gratitude the efforts of America and the actions of the brave. Wiesel, with a hopeful tone, encourages change and undertaking to save sufferers from inhuman and woeful experiences. In “The Perils of

Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel in his formal speech,”The Perils of Indifference,” asserts that indifference has causes all tragedy in the past, present, and will continue to terrorize humanity in the future if we do not stop it. He develops his message through examples of what indifference specifically causes. Any wars or serious events like Kennedy’s assassination, WW I&II, etc. He describes these as “failures” that “cast” a “dark shadow” over “humanity” (par. 5). Also, Wiesel shares personal anecdotes in order to give his specific point of view at the scene of something like the Holocaust. His story with the “Muselmanner” illustrates that these prisoners were left to die in the corner of buildings and they eventually “stared vacantly into space” and they were “dead” but “they did not know it.” Ultimately, he ends with his prospects of the future. He hopes that humans abolish indifference for the sake of their own humanity. Wiesel’s purpose is to ultimately warn his audience into stopping the progression of indifference in order to stop the growth of foreign and domestic hostility. He establishes a serious tone for readers by using stylistic devices and rhetorical devices such as repetition, pathos, and rhetorical questions in order to develop his message that the inhumanity of indifference and the importance of resistance is still relevant today.

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.

Author and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel in his emphatic speech, “The Perils of Indifference,” asserts the dangers that indifference brings to the world. He develops his message by explaining how being indifferent affects a person's emotions through imagery. For instance, in Wiesel’s speech, it states, “During the darkest of times… we felt abandoned, forgotten. All of us did.” Furthermore, the use of repetition of the word “indifference” helps demonstrate the author’s personal view towards it and the importance of how it can negatively impact society. Ultimately, the use of rhetorical questions inspired vast amounts of thought about his message of speech to the audience. Wiesel’s purpose is to warn others to not be indifferent to victims of injustice and cruelty in order to bring a change to the world and accomplish compassion in the twenty-first century. He establishes a serious tone for the readers by using stylistic and rhetorical devices such as imagery, repetition, and rhetorical questions in order to develop his message that the inhumanity of indifference and the importance of resistance is still relevant today.

“He was finally free, but there was no joy in his heart. He thought there never would be again”. This quote stated by Elie Wiesel from his speech, “The Perils of Indifference”, refers to the day Elie Wiesel got liberated from the Holocaust when he was young. The Holocaust was just one of the many horrific tragedies that occurred during that century. In hopes of changing the future for the better, Wiesel decides to deliver a speech about helping the victims of injustice. He gives this speech intended for the President, Mrs. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies, and friends hoping that they will make positive changes for the future. By using rhetorical strategies such as anaphora, rhetorical questions, and ethos, Wiesel tries to help the victims of injustice and prevent future tragedies from happening.

Holocaust survivor and writer, Elie Wiesel in his influential speech “The Perils of Indifference,” claims that indifference is the root of all evil and inhumanity---all pain and all tragedy has resulted because of indifference. He supports his claim by highlighting the reason for “World Wars,” “Civil Wars,” “Assassinations,” “Bloodbaths,” and “Tragedy---” indifference (Wiesel par. 5) . Specifically, Wiesel uses imagery to paint an image of what the innocent victims of indifference experience. The poor “children [that] perish” because of the indifference in a man’s soul; until they see the children’s “pain” and “agony” and “hear their pleas,” until “one of them dies” because of the “violence,” “disease” and “famine,” then one will notice the dangers of indifference (Wiesel par. 23) . Further, the author flashbacks to past events that have left humans without a soul. He mentions how one day he “woke up in a place of eternal infamy, Buchenwald.” Remembering the day he is captured and the day he is “free[ed]” (Wiesel par. 1) . The problem now is that “there [i]s no joy in his heart;” he becomes a victim of indifference---the metal torture (Wiesel par. 1) . Wiesel’s purpose is to inform humanity of the dangers indifference holds in order to encourage humans to continue to hope for a world without indifference---no pain, no horror. He establishes a critical tone for readers by using stylistic devices such as imagery, flashbacks and rhetorical questions in order to achieve his purpose that indifference is monstrous and dangerous. Wiesel’s message about the inhumanity of indifference and the importance of resistance is still relevant today.

Holocaust had a big impact on people lives because of the indifference and injustice of the people. The story Night by Elie Wiesel, The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas, and secret life are the sources that tells us how bad the holocaust was and how we should stand up when we see people suffering rather than staying aside and be an observer. Being indifferent and an observer encourages the tormentor which is the opposite of what we should want. By speaking out and acting against injustice we can change what’s going on with other people’s lives that is unfair. In this essay I am going to support my opinion of how people show stand up for themselves and other people and how you should act against injustice by giving facts from the three sources.

Whenever someone experiences a traumatic event, especially at a young age, they tend to experience severe mental challenges including PTSD, and many other symptoms. In most cases such as war and the holocaust “the trauma quite obviously, did not end at liberation” (Bettelheim). Through the use of frightful imagery, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, and Night by Elie Wiesel, express the demand to become impervious to human emotion in order to survive barbaric and savage events.

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.

My grandmother, who is the mother of my mom, passed away due to heart failure at the age of 87. Since I was 6 or 7 she had been living in our house. The reason for that was, my grandfather, that I was named after passed away a year before I was born, so she was alone, and she was starting to get old. Since she lived with us for so many years, she had been a very important figure in my life. I can honestly say that she was like a 3rd parent for me, and losing her, made me fell horrible and helpless. I witnessed how real death is because of her passing. Combined with puberty, my grief caused me to become depressed for a long time. As I’m looking back it sounds really extreme, but there were some days that I did not even leave the bed thinking that there was no point to our existence. Thanks to some psychological counselling however, I was able to overcome that mental

Cruelty surrounds the world constantly, and is used frequently in works of literature to reveal certain things about the theme. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, acts of cruelty are used to express the theme and enhance its message. One of the largest themes revealed by these acts is “man’s inhumanity to man,” which includes mistreatment of Jews by the Nazis, the common people, and other Jews. Watching the large amounts of violence, abuse, and discrimination that occur in this memoir show us the horrors of the Holocaust and how it transformed the men and women who it experienced it, as well as those who caused it.

In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel is a young boy who struggles to survive after being forced to live in the brutal concentration camp of Auschwitz. In Auschwitz, death and suffering is rampant, but due to compassionate words and actions from others, Elie is able to withstand these severe living conditions and overcome the risk of death in the unforgiving Auschwitz. As shown through the actions and words of characters in Night, compassion, the sympathetic pity for the suffering or misfortune of others is critical to the human experience because it enables humans to empathize with each other, empathizing which allows us to feel the need to assist others which can often be vital for survival.

Has anyone lived a life without misfortune? Doubtable; even the person with what could be described as the ideal life deals with some form of adversity. The novel, Speak, and the short story, The Third and Final Continent, both use plot as a way to convey themes of hardship. Moreover, these texts both use symbolism in order to develop their themes as well. The Art of Resilience and Speak utilize characterization as a method of developing their respective themes. Speak, The Third and Final Continent, and The Art of Resilience each deal with the theme that all people must learn to cope with adverse situations.