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    In response‚ in the article “Elie Wiesel’s The Perils of Indifference” by Elie Wiesel‚ he recalled that when American soldiers liberated his camp he saw how angry they were at witnessing the events that occurred there (Paragraph 2). American civilians had no idea about what was happening to the Jewish people

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    the Holocaust to now‚ the twenty-first century. I don’t think anything will be the same in the world after the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel talks about the indifference of love and hate‚ the indifference of beauty and ugliness‚ the indifference of faith and heresy‚ finally the indifference of life and death. Elie Wiesel stated‚” And the opposite of life is not death‚ but indifference between life and death.” Don’t put somebody else’s life in misery‚ just because you’re impassive about them. Adolf Hitler

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    The Perils of Indifference In this day in age several people fail to realize the true importance of taking a stand for what is right. Taking a stand is a topic that is often discussed yet rarely understood. Taking a stand means to be courageous enough to defend an issue that one strongly believes in. The benefits of standing up for what one may feel is right is that one can gain more confidence‚ learn from taking risks‚ but most importantly‚ one can make a difference in many people’s lives.Weisel

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    Selena Martinez Mrs. Lesosky Pre-Ap English II 18 March 2013 The Perils of Indifference Analysis At the end‚ and the start of a new millennium‚ or world has witnessed both atrocities and amazing displays of human compassion. In The Perils of Indifference Elie Wiesel successfully portrays his thoughts by applying anaphora’s‚ and the distribution of both ethos and pathos. Throughout his speech Wiesel repeats the word indifference quite often. An anaphora is the repetition of the same word or group

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    The Perils of Indifference Rhetorical Analysis Elie Wiesel‚ a holocaust survivor‚ gave a speech called The Perils of Indifference‚ to elected officials including the president and the first lady on April 12th‚ 1999. He claims that being a victim of indifference hurts‚ but it hurts even more when others don’t help. The author writes in a personable tone to connect with the audience during his speech. Wiesel supports his claim by utilizing many rhetorical devices‚ including tone‚ rhetorical questions

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    In "The Perils of Indifference" the author is purposeful in the structure of his ideas in order to further develop his overall point. The author begins by detailing that‚ "Fifty-four years ago to the day‚ a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up" and then describes the hard experiences of this boy‚ effectively capturing the attention and emotions of an audience from the start. After creating sympathy for this young boy‚ the author then reveals that he is the young

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    Holocaust‚ Elie Wiesel once said‚ “Having survived by chance‚ I was duty–bound to give meaning to my survival.”(“Having Survived”1). Elie Wiesel did not know at the time that he had a reason for surviving this tragedy‚ but soon realized that he survived to offer a story and message about the horrors of that time to a world that often seemed to block it out completely and forget (“Having Survived”1).To spread his message to the world‚ which is one of peace‚ redemption‚ and human nobleness‚ Wiesel speaks

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    In the memoir‚ Night‚ written by Elie Wiesel‚ the author and many millions of other victims‚ were presented with this very dilemma of trying to retain their individual thoughts despite everything they were facing. Throughout his memoir‚ Elie Wiesel uses memories of when he was faced with the pressures of extreme hunger and his experience with witnessing death to convey his struggle to maintain his humanity. In times of extreme hunger and high danger‚ Elie Wiesel struggled with temptations of food

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    The definition of the word night is the time of darkness between sunrise and sunset but the meaning of the word night is something totally different to Elie Wiesel. Ever since the holocaust the word night to Elie Wiesel has meant more than darkness‚ it has meant death and loss of hope and he expresses that feeling in his book Night. In his book he wrote‚ “So much had happened within such a few hours that I had lost all sense of time. When had we left our houses? And the ghetto? And the train

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    speak” (Wiesel introduction). Elie Wiesel introduces his tragic memoir Night with the fact that silence was not the answer for victims of atrocities. This memoir depicts Elie Wiesel’s experiences at Auschwitz‚ one of the cruelest concentration camps during the Holocaust. Through the pain and seemingly eternal silence that fell upon the victims‚ a voice needed arise to shed light on the broken actions in the world. Elie Wiesel‚ in his memoir Night‚ reminds the world that “silence” or “indifference” to

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