Analysis Of Elie Wiesel's Speech

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Throughout the presence of space and time, various incidents occur in which society gains experience from. Through those experiences, the community makes novels, articles, timelines,and more about those events. One particular author, Elie Wiesel, has written a speech after receiving a nobel peace prize about the dreadful account of the Holocaust. Mr. Wiesel lectures about the numerous deaths of the victims during the Holocaust that affected approximately 12 million people . He speaks of the ghetto that he lived in, the suffering he endured, and the pain of it all. On the other hand, He also speaks of how the world should change, so that an event like the Holocaust never happens again. In his speech, Elie Wiesel illustrates the idea of how the world’s actions are bewildering, but it is also up to the same world to stop it. He develops this meaning of his speech by points of point of view, rhetorical questioning, and parallel structure. As Elie Wiesel begins his address,
He wants nothing but the central idea of how society has done wrong, but the same society must stop their wrong doings, to be engraved in each and every being’s mind. He not only aids humanity of their mindsets, but also beautifully uses point of view, rhetorical questioning, and parallel structure to do it! However, all differences aside, society has learned from this experience one way or another. Perhaps, it has taught society to become better beings, or taught others to support the Holocaust and the Nazis. Others may still believe that the Holocaust does not matter, or did not even exist, but that is still learning from the event. However, at the end of it all, Elie Wiesel is just one of the survivors, and one out of hundreds of authors who composed books, articles, and speeches about what he, and humanity, observed and took part

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