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Similarities Between Martin Luther King Jr And Elie Wiesel

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Martin Luther King and Elie Wiesel both use imagery to show the oppression and cruelties of what happened to their people. Both speakers use repetition to give messages of change, although King uses more hopeful messages to inspire positive changes rather than the sorrowful influence used by Wiesel. Both speakers try to give the audience reasons to grow and change.

Elie Wiesel uses literary elements to show the sorrow and oppression of the acts committed against the Jews. Elie uses imagery to talk about his past while he is prejudiced for being a Jew. In the 4th paragraph of his speech, he describes it as “the fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of our mankind were meant to be sacrificed.”
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