In the mothers quote even others were sad just seeing him suffer with them. One other rhetorical device Ellie Wiesel uses in Night is diction. Diction is the language or wording used in a text. Elie Wiesells diction is brilliant at describing the behaviors of those in the holocaust. Wording like “yisgadal veyishkadash shmey raba…
Elie Wiesel addresses the audience by saying, "Mr. President, Mrs. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies, friends," in an effort to get their attention. He also utilizes Ethos by referring to "my friends" to demonstrate how he is attempting to win the audience's trust. One method of persuasion is pathos. It's intended to impact the audience's emotions when making an argument. When talking about his early years and his life, Elie Wiesel employs pathos.
All in all, the use of diction that Wiesel applies to his writing helps the reader feel more of what Wiesel is trying to convince the audience of. As well as showing how humanity was broken as a result of evil
The memoir is his point of view and how he had seen everything go down in his life; however as he is sharing his story to the audience Wiesel draws the audience in to listen to some moments more closer than others in the book and really emphasize
Wiesel uses a variety of metaphors to display the suffering and pain that he and his family, along with many others, endured. Using metaphors makes it easier for people who did not live through something to imagine
Wiesel must take it upon himself to ensure such human suffering is not repeated, that his warning will be heard and the world will take action. As he speaks about the horrors of the Holocaust, he makes sure to establish that “the world did know and remained silent”-- it was not ignorance that cost millions of lives, but apathy; silence. He continues, telling the listener “we must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
Which contributes to him using pathos to support his ethos and ethos to support his logos and getting his point across to the audience. Elie Wiesel has the authority to retell his own personal experience being that he was the one who experience the event first hand. That has made an emotional and sympatric appeal to his audience to change their outputs on indifference so they can fight off
He also inform the audience about the indifference that happened during the holocaust .Elie wiesel uses another rhetorical questioning to start off his second main idea and to bring the audience attention to what he is about to point out. In his speech he said, “ what is indifference?” To make the listener ask themselves do they really know what the meaning of indifference is referring to the event. He also use the technique of comparing and contrasting by stating “more dangerous than anger and hatred”.
One striking question he asks is “what about the children? Oh, we see them on television, we read about them in the papers, and we do so with a broken heart”, implying that the audience is willing to read and be informed about suffering but refuses to take action (Wiesel 4). Wiesel wants the audience to feel uncomfortable and unsatisfied with their personal actions.. By asking tough questions he is challenging the audience to reflect and change the way they look at suffering. Making a change from the inside is the most effective way to convince people to take action, as Wiesel clearly knows and takes advantage of.
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.
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.
For example, he begins two sentences in a row with the word “gratitude” to express his feelings towards the American soldiers who liberated the concentration camp. Wiesel also started three sentences in a row with the word “indifference.” The use of anaphora cleared up his belief that indifference must not be tolerated. Epistrophe was present as well; “You fight it. You denounce it.
