A Rhetorical Analysis Of Elie Wiesel's Speech

In a similar fashion Wiesel’s tone is dependent on the structure he adopts through the end of his speech. Wiesel abruptly stops asking a series of rhetorical questions and begins to patronize the American government and society for all the goods they have done. “And yet, my friends, good things have happened in this traumatic century: the defeat of Nazism, the collapse of communism, the rebirth if Israel on its ancestral soil, the demise of apartheid, Israel’s peace treaty with Egypt, the peace accord in Ireland.”, Wiesel begins to recognize many accomplishments of not only America but other nations as well to emphasize his point as to why were the Jewish forgotten (5-6). He continues his speech and hits another milestone in his speech, “But this time, the world was not …show more content…
This time, we do respond. This time, intervene.” Wiesel implies the question; why is this predicament different and more urgent than mass genocide of a whole community. With this intention, Wiesel acknowledges a new perspective for the audience. “What about the children? Oh, we see them on television, we read about them in the papers, and we do so with broken heart. Their fate is always tragic, inevitably. When adults wage war, children perish.” Wiesel indicates that the future is composed of the children (6). He implies that the children are the key to the future so if they grow up watching countless wars, that is what the future will become. He asserts this to create sympathy for not only himself but the children; however he also entails that when he is speaking of the children he is referring to

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