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  • Essay / Holocaust Survivor: Night by Ellie Wiesel - 678

    “I will never forget these things, even if I were doomed to live as long as God himself. Never." (Wiesel 2006, p. 34) Elie Wiesel is a humanitarian but better known as a Holocaust survivor and author of the book Night. Elie recounts the horrors of his experience throughout the book and revisits moments he had not been discussed for years His book initially sold only a few copies, but later, thanks to this renewed interest, Elie Wiesel's book became famous and he began his journey. in his humanitarian activities, which earned him a Nobel Peace Prize and resulted in his famous speech, Hope, Despair, and Memory In Elie Wiesel's speech, Hope, Despair and Memory, Elie Wiesel reminds us. , through his use of pathos and ethos, as a speaker, the despair that humanity can create, but through our memories and memories from such despair, we can invoke the future with the hope of change. Elie Wiesel's speech, Hope, Despair and Memory delivered in 1986, focused mainly on the great importance of remembering past memories that people tend to want to forget. The speech successfully persuaded the audience to believe in the importance that memory serves us through the extensive use of pathos throughout the speech, particularly the pathos that always comes from any sort of memory of the holocaust . Elie uses phrases such as “a young man has difficulty readjusting to life. His mother, his father, his little sister are gone. He is alone. On the verge of despair. » (Abrams, 1997) It helps to create a strong feeling of sympathy for the injustices that struck this period of history. This use of pathos makes effective use of it because it emphasizes the audience's attention to Elie Wiesel and brings them closer to his emotions and...... middle of paper ......sciences that we, humanity, can prevent such destruction from happening, helping us shape and shape a better future or tomorrow. Elijah's speech served not only as a speech to the audience, but also as a respect for those who were killed, those who suffered great injustices across the world, and as a reminder to those good people of the past and their memories . Elijah's speech used rhetorical devices throughout what I talked about, such as pathos and ethos, to make his point clear. When humanity chooses to remember past experiences and improve them for the future, we can progress. Elijah's speech was very inspiring and touched many people. It is when Elijah's speech finally changes from just a speech to a lifestyle by which people will live and prosper every day in the future, he will finally feel that his many deeds and his work as a humanitarian will be finally accomplished..