Rhetorical Analysis
In the article The Perils of Indifference by Elie Wiesel is a speech by the author. He is a Holocaust survivor and a noble prize winner and has written many books. The article states that the world being indifferent to things happening around us. He wants the world to help others in need without ignoring them as they are not affected by the events. He starts by addressing President Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies and friends; his main focus was on the President and the American citizens. He tells a story of a Jewish boy from a small town who lost his family due to the Holocaust in Buchenwald. Then, moves on to indifference and why it is tempting. Wiesel says that indifference is dangerous than anger and hatred because indifference does not have a creative side whereas, anger and hatred can have a positive side. He uses the story of St. Louis as an example of indifference, around 1,000 Jews from Nazi Germany due to war were forced to leave the place in a ship headed to United States. However, the ship was sent back by the government. He also mentions the tragic situations which …show more content…
The article overall is logical. He makes it clear that people and government ignore almost everything which does not affect them. He encourages us to change this and step up and act accordingly. He says that everything happened this year will be judged in terms of moral and metaphysical terms in the following years. Wiesel says, “These failures have cast a dark shadow over the humanity: two World Wars, countless civil wars, the senseless chain of assassinations (Gandhi, the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, Sadat, Rabin), bloodbaths in Cambodia and Nigeria, India and Pakistan, Ireland and Rwanda, Eritrea and Ethiopia, Sarajevo and Kosovo; the inhumanity in the gulag and the tragedy of Hiroshima. And, on a different level, of course, Auschwitz and Treblinka. So much violence; so much
In the article The Perils of Indifference by Elie Wiesel is a speech by the author. He is a Holocaust survivor and a noble prize winner and has written many books. The article states that the world being indifferent to things happening around us. He wants the world to help others in need without ignoring them as they are not affected by the events. He starts by addressing President Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies and friends; his main focus was on the President and the American citizens. He tells a story of a Jewish boy from a small town who lost his family due to the Holocaust in Buchenwald. Then, moves on to indifference and why it is tempting. Wiesel says that indifference is dangerous than anger and hatred because indifference does not have a creative side whereas, anger and hatred can have a positive side. He uses the story of St. Louis as an example of indifference, around 1,000 Jews from Nazi Germany due to war were forced to leave the place in a ship headed to United States. However, the ship was sent back by the government. He also mentions the tragic situations which …show more content…
The article overall is logical. He makes it clear that people and government ignore almost everything which does not affect them. He encourages us to change this and step up and act accordingly. He says that everything happened this year will be judged in terms of moral and metaphysical terms in the following years. Wiesel says, “These failures have cast a dark shadow over the humanity: two World Wars, countless civil wars, the senseless chain of assassinations (Gandhi, the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, Sadat, Rabin), bloodbaths in Cambodia and Nigeria, India and Pakistan, Ireland and Rwanda, Eritrea and Ethiopia, Sarajevo and Kosovo; the inhumanity in the gulag and the tragedy of Hiroshima. And, on a different level, of course, Auschwitz and Treblinka. So much violence; so much