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Response For Night By Elie Wiesel

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Imagine you were living at the time of the holocaust and you were selected to be killed whether by your age, gender, or beliefs. Well, this actually happened to a survivor who gone through a difficult life. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel quoted, “A young Jewish boy discovered the kingdom of Night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car.” Elie Wiesel main purpose of writing this novel “Night” was to express his experience and making sure that the world do not do the same mistakes from the holocaust. To begin with, the author Elie Wiesel spokes out about the results of indifferent and how with his own situation was an example. For instance, when Elie …show more content…

According to Elie speech, he stated,“Violence is not the answer, Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers… Children and their fear. The uprooted and their hopelessness. Something must be done about their situation. Both the Jewish people and the palestinian people have lost too many sons and daughters and have shed too much blood.” To put this differently, the mindset he have in his speech was to realize that violence isn’t the key to safety but to look for peaceful mindset avoiding conflict preventing other injury. Another speech from Elie states, “Let Israel be given a chance, let hatred and danger be removed from their horizons, and there will be peace in and around the Holy Land … Without it no action be possible. And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.” On the positive side, Wiesel give us an example of forgiving our nation and starting a new future without any conflict. A new change is a good thing rather than being neither which it can do more harm than good. As shown above, it is difficult when come to decision or choices and if error occurred it is best to find a way to learn from the

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He wants a new millennium full of change and wants to rid the world of indifference. Despite what happened last century, Wiesel has accepted the indifference, and is ready for this century. The tone shifts to hopefulness. After he talks about the positive events that have happened in the past century he says, “ But this time, the world was not silent. This time, we do respond.

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In Elie Wiesel’s speech, “Hope, Despair, and Memory,” he emphasizes the importance of peace. He states throughout his speech that we need to give the gift of peace to others and that mankind needs peace more than ever. War will go on forever, but peace can easily be lost if we don’t try to make peace every single day. He even quotes The Talmud to emphasize his point “It is the wise men who will bring about peace.” He also tries to connect with people from all over the world, for example he says that Israel has gone without peace for thousands of years, this statement may be harsh, but it gets across his point.

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78 years ago, an event that killed millions occurred, known as the Holocaust. It involved German Nazis torturing and mass murdering European Jews over the span of about 12 years. Although there are many stories and novels about the Holocaust, one stands apart from the others. The title of this book is “Night”, by Elie Wiesel. In this short novel, Wisiel tells the story of his life as a teen boy living in fear of the Nazis and his traumatizing experiences.

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Image result for elie wieselIn the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel wrote about how the Jews and the Gypsies were taken from their homes, their countries, friends, family, and was forced to dig their own graves. They were killed on the spot if they did not follow directions. Wiesel wanted to show how evil mankind can be, the way they were treated with hatred, disgust and looked down upon. They were treated like dogs. Wiesel is trying to teach that even though there is evil in the world, you cannot let go of your positivity, hope, and will to survive.

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He appeals to his audience by using pathos present in his repetition of “indifference.” he explains that the neutrality of indifference “is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor” (cite) he works to convince the audience to end their indifference because it does more harm than good. By not actively working to help the oppressed those who are indifferent avail the aggressor. Throughout his entire speech, Elie Wiesel effectively argues the

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In this address, Wiesel urges listeners to maintain perspective regarding the state of the world, regardless of whether it directly affects them or not. He also urges listeners to act to right wrongs and uphold the rights of others. He emotionally engages the audience by bringing up the injustices that were occurring at the time this speech was

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The entire world was so ignorant to such a massacre of horrific events that were right under their noses, so Elie Wiesel persuades and expresses his viewpoint of neutrality to an audience. Wiesel uses the ignorance of the countries during World War II to express the effects of their involvement on the civilians, “And then I explain to him how naive we were, that the world did know and remained silent. And that is why I swore never to be silent when and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation” (Weisel). To persuade the audience, Elie uses facts to make the people become sentimental toward the victims of the Holocaust. Also, when Weisel shares his opinion with the audience, he gains people onto his side because of his authority and good reputation.

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He references back to his past life, “a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up…. He was finally free, but there was no joy in his heart. He thought there never would be again.” (Wiesel 1). Wiesel wants his audience to completely understand that others are suffering the way he has suffered and could be helped.

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“The Foundation's mission…is to combat indifference, intolerance and injustice through international dialogue and youth-focused programs that promote acceptance, understanding and equality” (The Elie Wiesel Foundation For Humanity). By creating this organization, Wiesel is able to help the world become a little less violent. One of the main reasons he believes that violence occurs is because of indifference. He compares indifference to those who are bystanders, “‘In other words, if I remain silent, I may help my own soul, but because I do not help other people I poison my soul’” (Machajewski 47).

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The general statement made by Elie Wiesel in his speech, The Perils of Indifference, is that indifference is sinful. More specifically, Wiesel argues that awareness needs to be brought that indifference is dangerous. He writes “Indifference is not a beginning, it is an end”. In this speech, Wiesel is suggesting that indifference is dangerous it can bring the end to many lives. In conclusion Wiesel's belief is suggesting that indifference is an end, it needs to be noticed and taken care of.

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Furthermore, by saying this, Wiesel constructs a pathway to his argument that this is what indifference brings to the world. That indifference is what put the Jews in harm’s way with no one willing to take them into safety, because it wasn’t their problem to handle. On a larger scale, he is simply saying that Hitler wasn’t the only one wrong in the equation, it was anyone with

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Wiesel pinpoints the indifference of humans as the real enemy, causing further suffering and lost to those already in peril. Wiesel commenced the speech with an interesting attention getter: a story about a young Jewish from a small town that was at the end of war liberated from Nazi rule by American soldiers. This young boy was in fact himself. The first-hand experience of cruelty gave him credibility in discussing the dangers of indifference; he was a victim himself.

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The dangers of apathy were stressed by Wiesel in a 1999 address he gave at the White House titled The Perils of Indifference. According to the speech, "to keep quiet when injustices happen is to condone injustice and to undercut human rights everywhere. " This statement shows that not stopping racial discrimination when you see it; means that you support it. With his Holocaust experience and the approaching future, Elie Wiesel expresses the need to stop indifference to provide future generations with renewed desire and promise.

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Elie Wiesel Rhetorical Speech Analysis Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor and winner of a Nobel peace prize, stood up on April 12, 1999 at the White House to give his speech, “The Perils of Indifference”. In Wiesel’s speech he was addressing to the nation, the audience only consisted of President Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, congress, and other officials. The speech he gave was an eye-opener to the world in his perspective. Wiesel uses a variety of rhetorical strategies and devices to bring lots of emotion and to educate the indifference people have towards the holocaust. “You fight it.

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Chapter One Summary: In chapter one of Night by Elie Wiesel, the some of the characters of the story are introduced and the conflict begins. The main character is the author because this is an autobiographical novel. Eliezer was a Jew during Hitler’s reign in which Jews were persecuted. The book starts out with the author describing his faith.

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