How Does Elie Wiesel Use Ethos Pathos Logos

In Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference he used pathos, ethos, and logos to express how he felt and to give the audience a sense of what he has been through. The way he used pathos, ethos, and logos in his speech was great and I’m going to give you my opinion on what I thought anout the way he used them. Wiesel opened up his speech by giving the audience glimpse of what he has lived. He said he was from Buchenwald, a place of eternal infamy. Wiesel gave a good mind image of where he was from by using the word “infamy” meaning bad quality or evil or wicked act. Also, as the American soldiers saved him, he was grateful for that rage and compassion. He couldn’t understand their language but he could see it in their eyes what they wanted him to know that they, too would be bear witness (605). By him saying that gave the audience little information about who he really was, and what he went through. …show more content…
As he describes the “Muselmanner”, the most tragic prisoners, he states that they are wrapped in their torn blankets, and will sit or lie on the ground, staring into space, and are unware of who or where they are and basically are strangers to their surroundings(606). Wiesel also stated that they feared nothing, felt nothing, and they were dead and didn’t know it. Some of them felt abandoned by humanity then was not the ultimate. Muselmanner’s thought that they were abandoned by God was worse than to be punished by him. Wiesel says man can live from God- not outside of God. God is wherever we are. Even in suffering (606). With Wiesel saying all of this in his speech, makes you realize that Indifference is not only a sin, it’s a