Wiesel's Last Speech Analysis
In the speech’s last paragraphs, Wiesel strongly finishes with a change in tone to appear more persuasive as well as reintroducing rhetorical questioning to appeal to his audience’s emotion with the help of children and the future for society. Wiesel approaches a tone full of hope to win over his audience by asserting the “good things [that] have also happened in this traumatic century”, to create an optimistic effect that it is possible for the world to intervene and result in a positive movement (5). However, he almost instantly begins to question his audience if society had truly changed because he wants the audience to be doubtful of the place society is now and see for themselves the troubles that could be prevented in the future. Lastly,