Rhetorical Analysis Of Hope Despair And Memory By Elie Wiesel

Does failure really fix what lies ahead? During the era of the Holocaust, the German sovereignty began to aware of the racial community. Due to their persecution, they manage to massacre eleven million people. Making generations of family association to end. Many survivors have either been scared to their bones or still have the strength to tell their story. One of the most prominent survivors was an acclaimed writer named, Elie Wiesel. His passionate speech, "Hope, Despair and Memory," full of rhetorical devices convince the audience about the importance of memory.

The last sentence of "Hope, Despair and Memory," it declared, "Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other." Peace is not

Thus, the rejection of memory becomes a divine curse, one that would doom us to repeat, past disasters, past wars." His content reveals the meaning of abandoning memory could prevent us to move on, in other words, history will eternally repeat itself until we find the ultimate solution to peace. As Wiesel furthers into dept, he expresses, "Have we failed? I often think we have." It demonstrates, "Never forget," the world said of the Holocaust, but hypocrisy begins to emerge. The world is forgetting, in spite of we constantly tell disheartening memoirs, yet we decide to forget purposely without feeling the guilt and shame that is upon us. The writer conclusively released the central idea once he declared, "There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." The phrase shows an explanation for us to stand with pride to remember and realize, we are in

In part of his speech, an imagery caption caught my eye, "The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim's solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayered of doomed beneath a fiery sky." In fact, it is human to forget, however, the survivors have the urged to tell their traumatic incident to the new living. Including, to share their experiences, Elie Wiesel used allusion of a specific date when he notifies, "New Year's Day, Rosh Hashana, is also called Yom Hazarkaron, the day of universal judgment, man appeals to God to remember; our salvation depends on it." Nowadays, people say "Happy New Year" just as a saying than knowing the real reason of why we say it. It's like an atheist shouting, "Oh my God!" New Years Day is the day of despair to respect women and men of famous tragedies. In addition, is the time to reflect of how humanity evolves and still in function. It was not ever about overdosing on liquor, or purchasing a thousand dollar dress that we would ever wear again. While we are at it, we created the "New Year's kiss" to spam on Instagram of how "lit" we have gotten. To build more shame, Elie Wiesel uses word choice by adding, " We would have to invent a new vocabulary, for our own words were inadequate, anemic." meaning words were like creatures losing blood. Yet, the way we praise their strength to keep going forward is the