Review Of Elie Wiesel's Speech: The Perils Of Indifference

In this essay we will review the historical side and the persuasive writing side of Elie Wiesel’s speech “The Perils of Indifference”. We will give some background information on why they gave this speech. Tell you what appeals he used and if he used all three of the persuasive writing appeals ( emotional, logical, ethical ). Why the speech is very widely admired and cherished and still highly regarded. Also how the author used the appeals.
He wrote this speech for the Millennium Lectures. The Millennium Lectures are where they discuss the past millennium and what's going to happen in the future. They are basically like an end of the millennium assessment. When writing this speech he had to keep in mind that he was writing about the past millennium and trying to make indifference the main point of the speech. By that I mean he wanted to say how it was so popular in his millennium and was wondering if we

Elie spoke of his past and the several events that took place during his time in concentration camps. While showing an immense amount of gratitude to what the current day “Government” he also talks about the terrible mistakes we made as a country during World War II. Elie wonders why we didn't intervene as much as we should have untill after the war saying “Why was there a greater effort to save SS murderers after the war than to save their victims during the war?”. Elie does speak of christians though saying “But then, there were human beings who were sensitive to out tragedy. Those non-jews, those Christians, that we called the “Righteous Gentiles,” whose selfless acts of heroism saved the honor of their faith. Why were they so few?” . He does a tremendous job of deliberately making us feel awful about not intervening, but then gives us hope that we can still do right and