Elie Wiesel's Speech

Model A On April 12, 1999 this speech was given at the White House the Perils of Indifference by Elie Wiesel, which contained a strong moral lesson given to show those that his speech had touched on his story of survival as a Holocaust survivor and the harsh events he had lived through, as well as the points about indifference and his opinion and feelings about it throughout his life. As this speech had come to be as Elie Wiesel was invited by Hillary Clinton to speak in the next Millennium Lecture that was taking place at the White House for him to stand in this spot and to reflect on the past century and the future to come.Elie Wiesel used language appropriate for his purpose in his speech to the Millennium Lecture as he used his words, passion, and his own personal experience to speak about his reflection of this past century and the future to come, and his his purpose to try and stop the events of the past to ever happen again through his speech. …show more content…
For example from the poem, “ Liberated a day earlier by American soldiers, he remembers their rage at what they saw. And even if he lives to be a very old man, he will always be grateful to them for that rage, and also for their compassion.” Another example is that he also uses his words to exclaim his gratitude towards the President, and those that had saved Elie and thousands of others from the concentration camps in Germany. And final example is that he continues to talk about his experience in Auschwitz, and the feeling of being forgotten by humanity. This shows how Elie Wiesel had opened his speech with the usage of simple, but strong words as he opens his speech to the audience and its