Caring is Important “Gratitude is a word that I cherish” (Wiesel). Elie Wiesel was from a small Jewish town. When he was young, he was taken to a concentration camp. After a couple of years, he was freed, but he still has no joy in his heart, he was being careless enough to get himself in danger. Elie Wiesel shows rhetorical questions, imagery, and parallelism in his speech to show the dangers of indifference.
Firstly, in “The Perils of Indifference”, Elie Wiesel uses rhetorical questions to get us thinking on the thought of what life would be like for people after the Holocaust. “Does it mean that we have learned from the past?” “Has the human being become less indifferent and more human?” “Have we really learned from our experiences?” (Wiesel). The questions are about the impacts of the Holocaust. No one cared about what was going on around them, if they did care none of this would’ve happened. Wiesel is trying to get the reader's attention that if everyone cared enough about humanity, then they would’ve known how to act when they saw horrible injuries and people dying.
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Wiesel uses imagery to expose the reader to the unsettled mood there is. “Behind the black gate of Auschwitz.” “Wrapped in their torn blankets, they would sit or lie on the ground, staring vacantly into space.” “And that ship, which was already on the shores of the united states, was sent back.” (Wiesel). The use of imagery impacts the way the audience reacts to what happened in the Holocaust. Wiesel is trying to get the readers to visual of the setting almost as if they were in prison. Some of them were careless enough that they didn’t know who they were or where they were at. Some were terrified. All the terrified Jews were sent back to concentration camps and later