Analysis Of Elie Wiesel's The Perils Of Indifference

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In 1999, former Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel gives his speech, The Perils of Indifference, as a way to start a new millennium in front of President Clinton, the First lady, and other white house leaders. In Wiesel’s speech, he defines the beauty of indifference by portraying tragic events that has happened while he was trapped in World War II as a young boy. He develops his speech by sharing his own personal experience and facts from that history to gain credibility, structures his bodies with multiple tropes and schemes like alliteration, anaphora, asyndeton, and antithesis to get his ideas of the effects of indifference and America’s mistakes in the last century across to the audience and interacts with the audience by asking multiple

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Analysis Of Elie Wiesel's Perils Of Indifference

In the Millennium Lecture Series speech “Perils of Indifference”(1999), Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate, accentuates that indifference is dangerous encouraging the oppressor making it to be the “friend of the enemy” (Wiesel 12), prolonging the existence of human suffering instead of ending it. He supports this claim when he exemplifies on how Franklin D. Roosevelt could have intervened when America’s largest corporations were doing business with Germany which which resulted with…

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