One of the most shocking events that have darken many lives of the twenty-first century is the holocaust. Pain, suffering, death, inhuman treatment and indifference are words associated with the holocaust. At the end of the World War II, a young Elie Wiesel was finally liberated from the Nazi concentration camp by American soldiers. Fifty-four years later, on April 12, 1999, the President Bill Clinton and the First Lady Hillary Clinton invited Wiesel to participate in the Millennium Lectures, where Wiesel gave his famous speech “The Perils of indifference”. Wiesel gave his speech to an audience of the White House, government officials and the American people. He expresses the brutalities around the world and also his own experience with the
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In the beginning of his speech, he gives the listeners his background without telling them that the young man of his story was actually him, a Holocaust survivor. He later reveals that the young man and Wiesel are one and the same. He uses third person to tell the story to build pathos with the audience but also ethos with his facts. He is clearly qualified to speak of the matters of indifference not only on behalf of the victims of the Holocaust but for all victims that suffer the same unjust around the world because he experienced the Holocaust firsthand. He points out the tragedies of the Holocaust and uses ethos to question the listeners about indifference in their lives. Living and experiencing indifference in his life, gives him credibility to be able to caution other people not to fall into the numbness of …show more content…
Mentioning the second World War, and the injustice assassinations of Martin Luther King, the Kennedys, Gandhi, and other. He also mentions the killings in Cambodia, Algeria, India, Pakistan, Ireland, and many others. But over those fact, Wiesel’s struggles are the sufficient evidence for his logical point of view of indifference. An example of indifference that Wiesel really grabs the listeners, was when he confronts the guilts of the American leaders. When Roosevelt sent the St. Louis back to Germany after already being on American shores, Wiesel raised a reasonable logic question, why? That for many Jews had no understanding of why the President made that choice. Another quote gives the audience a logical reason is, “ indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never the victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten,” as Wiesel reminds the listeners why indifference is not a good thing to
In the beginning of his speech, he gives the listeners his background without telling them that the young man of his story was actually him, a Holocaust survivor. He later reveals that the young man and Wiesel are one and the same. He uses third person to tell the story to build pathos with the audience but also ethos with his facts. He is clearly qualified to speak of the matters of indifference not only on behalf of the victims of the Holocaust but for all victims that suffer the same unjust around the world because he experienced the Holocaust firsthand. He points out the tragedies of the Holocaust and uses ethos to question the listeners about indifference in their lives. Living and experiencing indifference in his life, gives him credibility to be able to caution other people not to fall into the numbness of …show more content…
Mentioning the second World War, and the injustice assassinations of Martin Luther King, the Kennedys, Gandhi, and other. He also mentions the killings in Cambodia, Algeria, India, Pakistan, Ireland, and many others. But over those fact, Wiesel’s struggles are the sufficient evidence for his logical point of view of indifference. An example of indifference that Wiesel really grabs the listeners, was when he confronts the guilts of the American leaders. When Roosevelt sent the St. Louis back to Germany after already being on American shores, Wiesel raised a reasonable logic question, why? That for many Jews had no understanding of why the President made that choice. Another quote gives the audience a logical reason is, “ indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never the victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten,” as Wiesel reminds the listeners why indifference is not a good thing to