Elie Wiesel's Speech Analysis

Imagine seeing with your own eyes seeing babies used as target practice. Or even being treated like an animal just because of your religion. These are just a few of the horrible acts committed in the holocaust. This is exactly what Elie Wiesel witnessed in the death camps of the holocaust. He witnessed so many horrible things happen not just to him but to millions of people. Some of the reason’s Elie wrote night was to keep the memory of the holocaust alive, to inform the younger generations what happened in the holocaust, and also to inform that there is still similar acts just like the holocaust happening today. Peril and indifference two words that mean totally different things but also make great sense when put together. The purpose for elies speech was to show that it was dangerous just because they were different. Just because they believed in a different religion they were treated differently. When elie was a kid that's when …show more content…
In his acceptance speech elie wiesel explains that, “For I belong to a traumatized generation, one that experienced the abandonment and solitude of our people” (119). This shows that elie went through hell itself and hopes that no one will ever have to go through the same horrible thing that he went through. Having to be on alert at all time, starvation depression, the fact that there’s a chance you might never see your family again you would never want someone to share the same fate as you.elie also explains that “victims of hunger, of racism, and political persecution, writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the Left and by the Right” (119). This shows how people were controlled by mad men only seeking power and doing it in undescribable ways and elie doesn't want us to forget that about the