Night By Elie Wiesel Rhetorical Analysis

Source #1 is a quote by Prince Emir Faysal at the paris peace conference in 1919. The quote reads “The arabs have long suffered under foreign domination. The hour has come into our own again… Why should not the Arabs rule the country where they live and have lived for countless generations? Why should we not be the masters in our own house?”. What Faysal is saying is that the Arabs were tired of their countries being ruled by others and wanted to govern themselves, they wanted to become a sovereign nation free to control themselves. If they became independent they would control everything in their country so that they could make things the way they and their people want it, but by doing so they make the country currently in charge pissed. Like

Faysal said they haven’t been in control in a long time and feel they are ready to be independent, they no longer wished to be ruled by the british and the french. They want a country that they can be proud of and one they can rule themselves. By becoming a sovereign state were making one country very happy and free and the other mad because they lost territory and resources that they once controlled. There would also have to be war because obviously they foreign country wouldn’t want to just hand it over to us. So by starting a war were creating something that will be remembered forever, like the independence of the united states from britain. The USA was tired of all the taxes the british were putting on them and their tea so they decided to dress up as first nations and toss of all the tea from british ships overboard. That was the spark that the US citizens needed to realize they wanted freedom from the British, and it’s still remembered to this day. The other country may not want to give them freedom because they feel that their beliefs and values are wrong, and that it will lead them to not have the level of safety and security that they see as important. Faysal is speaking for all Arabs in the middle eastern countries so that means the majority of Arabs wish to be separated. If they all believe that they should be free then they have to fight for their independence like the united states did, and countless other countries have done also.

Source #2 is a cartoon about hitler and how when he first became leader of germany how he was confiscating a bunch of countries that he felt entitled to. In the cartoon it says “in the late 1930’s, Europe's democracies play a dangerous game with Adolf hitler’s germany”, Hitler and the British leader Neville and the french leader Daladier are playing a game of monopoly over Europe. Hitler is acting like a child and taking all the pieces yelling “mine, mine,mine!” without fairly playing the game. Neville and Daladier are sitting idly by as they watch hitler grab all the land. In a speech bubble Daladier says “Let’s just let him win a few pieces. Then we can quit.” they tried to just wait it out maybe if hitler gets a bit of land he’ll chill, but that didn't happen he just kept grabbing more and more and kept on breaking the deals he made with french and english about taking more land. In another speech bubble Neville says “Ok, fine, Adolf. Do you promise to stop this silly game now?” but while they were just watching because of the fear of starting another world war, they just let him do whatever he wanted. The reason the artist may have chosen to play the game monopoly may have been because it's all about getting the most land, the most money, and the fact that it takes a long time to get those things, which all relate back to how hitler's strategy of taking over the world was. He chose a time while the government of germany was struggling and the people were willing to do anything to get work because of the aftereffects of world war 1. He created jobs and was very charismatic towards the aryan race. He waited patiently until the time was right to segregate the jews and start his land grab around europe. He created economic prosperity for the people that they haven't had in a long time so the majority was willing to follow and those who weren't were killed. The artist did a good job on representing the ways of Adolf Hitler and how he acted while in charge, it showed his true colors, showing hitler especially showing him yelling “The white Aryan race of Germany will rule the world!”.

Source #3 is a quote by Elie Wiesel a male Holocaust survivor and he says “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”. What we see Elie saying is that no matter the repercussions, we should always help those in need. During the holocaust he didn't receive the same treatment and that's why he swore to always help victims. During the holocaust other European countries like France and Britain just stood by and watched as the Germans slaughtered the Jewish people, they acted in “neutrality” and Elie forbids doing that because “silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”. When hitler was in charge every country feared of repeating world war 1 so they tried to negotiate with Hitler, trying to get him to settle down with all the land taking but it only worked for a short period of time, everyone ignored what was happening to the jewish people and pretended that it was better then it seemed. Elise says that we must choose sides, and always fight for what we believe in and to never ignore what's happening even though we still do that today with other problems that are going on around the world especially in poor war torn countries. Hitler put the people in concentration camps and forced them to work for free, and if they didn’t work fast enough or didn’t work hard enough then they were killed. The

whole Jewish race was deemed expendable and weren’t even considered human beings at the time. Elie spoke out and shared his words so that others around the world could see that not helping is worse than helping no matter how small, not ignoring the issues around the world is important to him and he wants it to be important with others as well, he wishes to see the safety and security of all people no matter where they're from because we’re all the same on the inside.

All three sources relate in that the people of these countries were being controlled and suffering under a leader or country that didn't have the same beliefs and values which caused major shifts in the way their people saw themselves and the safety and security of the people.

Hitler only did what he thought was correct and the other countries rule the way they see fit, with no regard of what the people actually want. Source #2 and Source #3 relate in that they're both about the holocaust and hitler, Source #2 is relating to during when the leaders of france and britain did nothing to help the Jewish people of Germany and Source #3 is about how no one should ever ignore what's in front of them and why dealing with issues like the holocaust is important so that they don't get out of hand, and the people are alone to fend for themselves. Economic prosperity relates source #1 and Source #2 together because the Arabs want to improve their country and so did Hitler they wanted their countries to succeed in thee way that they wanted them to and they wanted them to thrive so their own people would be

happy.