‘The Fiftieth Gate’ is a biographical memoir where Mark Baker explores his parents’ personal history and is taken on his own journey on the understanding and importance of memory when discovering history. Baker shapes the audience to his view of history and memory through the exploration of his own journey of understanding and discovery. The text being written in a personal, memoir style text aids in shaping the audience’s understanding of Bakers actions, making the text seem more relatable by speaking in first person. Baker combines and gathers different types of text along his journey, including; conversations, documents, statistics, video sessions and various perspectives regarding the Holocaust. The use of various text types creates a sense of credibility with the audience.
In ” Keep Memory Alive” and “The American Idea” both use rhetorical appeals to create the speech. Both speeches were great and both had a great impact on the world. They should be remembered and acknowledged more. In Elie Wiesel’s “Keep Memory Alive” speech he is trying to encourage the audience that they should forever remember what happened to the people in the Holocaust. He was not happy about the fact that the world was silent and that they knew and did nothing about it.
Writing preserves memories and actions. Without writing, there is no memory and no acknowledgment of these actions. Furthermore, literature can and will remain a potent weapon in any situation. This book is one of the most significant pieces of education and history from the holocaust. Ellie received a Nobel peace prize for his work.
What can a person do if their language is tainted with malevolent intentions towards others, how about after sixty millions of their own people are inhumanly slaughtered with little to no respect? Nothing can ease a person’s trauma and torment, attempting to explain an event of such horrific context is extremely for a survivor of said event. However, another problem arises, how one thoroughly explains an event that they desperately do not want to relive. Many Holocaust survivors, who are literary geniuses, use a variety of methods in order to express their opinions and experiences to the reader. Elie Wiesel’s use of repetition, Art Spiegelman’s use of a bizarre genre to create symbolism while explaining euphemisms, and many survivors opening up to the younger generation at Holocaust themed museums.
In President Bush’s address to the nation, he uses many rhetorical devices. A rhetorical device is a literary device that is used to persuade the audience to support the argument made. Bush’s address uses Ethos, Logos, and Pathos. They were invented and studied by the famous greek philosopher Aristotle. Ethos appeals to credibility, Logos appeals to logic or reason, and Pathos appeals to the audience’s feelings.
In the story “Keep Memory Alive” the author uses rhetorical questions, parallelism, ethos, repetition and pathos. In the speech the author says no one may speak for the dead , no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions how could the world remain silent about this. This statement uses parallelism and rhetorical questions. It also uses pathos by saying “I remembered it happened yesterday” This speech “Keep memory alive”also uses repetition allot
Elie Wiesel: Keeping Memory Alive Purpose: Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor is informing us the importance of speaking out and never to remain silent- like many countries did, during the Holocaust. Throughout his writings Elie Wiesel tries to give honor and respect to the 6 million who perished in the Holocaust, the survivors and their children with his powerful, uplifting words. Elie Wiesel also bears witness to “the horrors of his experiences at the hands of the Nazis”. Tone: Elie Wiesel’s “Keeping Memory Alive” is a very short but powerful acceptance speech. Throughout his speech, he hints to us that he was humbled by getting the nobel peace prize.
Rhetorical appeals reveal the hidden message the character is trying to convey. The rhetoric also highlights the character’s emotions, feelings and the significance of the text. It allows readers to gain a better understanding of the characters. Arthur Miler, the author of The Crucible, highlights the importance of mass hysteria through rhetorical appeals. John Proctor, the tragic hero is a loyal, honest, and kind-hearted individual.
Elie Wiesel, an American Jewish holocaust survivor, that was also a political activist, writer, and professional speaks a heartfelt speech to get across his message about the people who died in the Holocaust by using rhetorical techniques By using logos, Wiesel reiterates what it looked like to be a child and live through the holocaust that affected everyone around him. As a child, he was not able to thoroughly understand what it was like being a child when the Nazis made all Jewish citizens go to ghettos, using sealed cattle cars, which paints a logical picture. “A young Jewish boy discovers the kingdom of night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish.”
“Liberated a day earlier by American soldiers, he remembers their rage at what they saw” (Wiesel). In the Holocaust six million Jews were killed. They were brought to the concentration camps in cattle cars. At Auschwitz one-point-six million people died. Elie Wiesel’s “The Perils of Indifference” uses ethos, pathos, and rhetorical questions in order to persuade people that the opposite of love is indifference and not hate.
Elie Wiesel voiced his emotions and thoughts of the horrors done to Jewish people during World War II whilst developing his claim. Wiesel “remember[s] his bewilderment,” “his astonishment,” and “his anguish” when he saw they were dropped into the ghetto to become slaves and to be slaughtered. He repeats the words “I remember” because he and the world, especially those who suffered in the ghettos and camps, would never be able to forget how innocent suffered. Consequently, he emphasized that “no one” has the right to advocate for the dead. Like many other people in the world, he lost his family during the war.
Elie Wiesel’s essay, “A God Who Remembers,” was successful in both informing others about the Holocaust and
This is displayed in two books. In these two books, there are two characters who are survivors of two major genocides known as, The Holocaust and The Parsley Massacre. These characters are perfect examples of how identity and memory are hand and hand with each other. In 2006 Elie Wiesel
• The Rhetorical Tool that I choose on page 229 on my textbook is “Appeal to Value”; however, “Appeal to Need” would work to on my persuasive essay too. The results is that “Appeal to Value” I can express with my own support with sympathy, mercy, etc… in another words I can have the power or the ability to attract, interest, amuse, or stimulate the mind or emotions or the readers, because my persuasive essay will talk about precise meanings or important topics that the reader will like to know what is going on; in the other hand, I understand that we need to choose one rhetorical tool, but I think that “Appeal to Need” is another way to persuasive the readers on the need and the urgent of this matter; for example, the urgent and the obligation
Memory Blessing or Curse Religious wars fought over beliefs were always fought between two sides and one is thought to have a winner and a loser victor and victim. In Elie Wiesel’s Noble speech “Hope, Despair, and Memory” he describes his experiences during a religious war that were more of an overpowering of people than a war no clash of metal, no hard fought fight, just the rounding up and killing of people with different beliefs that barely put up a fight. Elie Wiesel the author of the Noble lecture “Hope, Despair, and Memory” implores us to respond to the human suffering and injustice that happened in the concentration camps by remembering the past, so that the past cannot taint the future through his point of view, cultural experiences, as well as his use of rhetorical appeals. Wiesel uses his cultural experiences and point of view sot that he could prove he spent time and survived the concentration camps in order to communicate that the past must be remembered that way it cannot destroy the future, he spent time in a concentration camps and he
