Thannia Sandoval

Mr. Soeth

English 3 AP

February 2, 2011

Rehugo Analysis- Historical Speech: “The Perils of Indifference” by Elie Wiesel.

A. The Perils of In-differences, speech delivered by Elie Wiesel at Washington D.C on April 12, 1999.

B. Elie Wiesel is well known from his book Night, describing his survival of the concentration camp during the holocaust. He has won a Noble prize and has published many books. Wiesel is not only now a holocaust survivor but as well as a professor and a political activist.

C. This effect of this speech is reverent to the world today as well as the future. Not only has this country seen violence and war, but as well as racial segregation. During World War 2 a similar event to the holocaust occurred in the United States. Japaneses were sent to concentration camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and were obligated to leave their homes and work. America was doing this just because the Japanese had caused contention with America. What Elie Wiesel is trying ask the congregation is “ Does it mean that society has changed?”. Will America learn from the mistakes of others and will it make a difference in the future.

D. Elie Wiesel uses a lot of pathos and ethos in his speech. With pathos he uses his past experience to affect the reader and to feel how Wiesel felt during the holocaust. The holocaust was a terrifying experience to the Jews and it affected the world to see how many people died during the genocide. He uses religious aspects to his speech when he says “ We felt that to be abandon by God was worst than to be punished by him”. When Wiesel says this it impacts the reader to realize how the Jews must of felt during the genocide. Wiesel also delivers ethos when he begins his speech by saying “not far from Goethe's beloved Weimar, in a place of eternal infamy called Buchenwald. He was finally free, but there was no joy in his heart”. With this statement, the credit goes to Wiesel because he was the one there and knows what it felt like, what he saw, and how it affected him.

E. MLA Citation:

Wiesel, Elie. “The Perils of Indifference.” Millennium Lecture Series. Washington D.C. April 12, 1999