Ethos Pathos Logos In Night By Elie Wiesel

The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir written to make the argument that his story matters and should not be repeated again. Through his book, it demonstrates the hardships he faced during his time in the camp and what he did in order to survive. Therefore the book provided a first hand experience and revelation of the events that occur. The Holocaust is a tragedy that was caused by the Nazi regime which believed that Germans were racially superior to the Jewish population. Nazi labeled the Jewish Community as a threat to German society, hence this event resulted in the death of over six million jewish people. The author also uses his memoir to discuss the prejudice he and others at the camps suffered through. Elie Wiesel hoped that through

Using negative pathos shows us the major impacts it has on the stability of his general mental state. This made us aware that he had slowly started to lose faith in God and himself. Moreover, as people were leaving the camp they looked, “defeated, their bundles, their lives in tow, having left behind their homes, their childhood. They passed me by, like beaten dogs, with never a glance in my direction. They must have envied me.”(Night 17). Everyone wanted to delay the transport for a longer time so that they could spend a longer time at home. Passing all of the people on the street as they were special as it was the last time they would have to remember every detail of their lives. Furthermore in another instance he said, “I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal's flesh. Had I changed that much? So fast? Remorse began to gnaw at me. All I could think was: I shall never forgive them for this.” (Night 39). In other words, for the first time he had a reflection on himself that showed him somebody he did not recognize anymore. Over and over again this shows us

In his speech, he states, “ It is so much easier to look away from victims. It is so much easier to avoid such rude interruptions to our work, our dreams, our hopes. It is, after all, awkward, troublesome, to be involved in another person's pain and despair.” (“The Perils of Indifference”). Looking the other way has been something others have become accustomed to do. Which is wrong and then go on to inform us that we should deal with the problem instead of hiding or letting it slip out of your hands. In another scene, when he and the other prisoners are on a train to another camp, he notices, “German laborers were going to work. They would stop and look at us without surprise. One day when we had come to a stop, a worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wagon. There was a stampede.” (Night 100). While the prisoners were tired and famished, a German passer-by took pleasure in seeing them fight for food like animals. Germans viewed Jewish people like “human trash” that didn’t matter anymore because of their beliefs. Everyone was guilty of diverting and making this not their battle to fight for. Their pain was real but was looked upon as made-up and not genuine that lasted for 12