Ellie Wiesel
Ellie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel develops the central idea and advances his point across by using formal diction, pathos, and allusions in his speech and documentary. He uses all of these things so that the audience will be more into the story and know what he was feeling, not just make the audience listen to another bring speech. Throughout the speech and documentary, Wiesel uses formal diction to get his point through more clearly. In his speech he states, “No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.”(Hope, Despair, and Memory by Elie Wiesel). This shows importance and he states it very thoroughly stated so it shows importance to the reader, and draws their attention.
Also throughout his works he uses pathos to grasp the audience attention and make them interested. When he does this, it grasps onto the audiences emotions and makes them feel sorry and want to take a stand to the wrong things in life. In his speech he says, “Whenever human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever man and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must-at that moment- becomes the center of the universe.” (Hope, Despair, and Memory by Elie Wiesel). This makes the audience and the reader feel more emotional to the situation because it has to deal with threatening their own kind, which makes things more personal.
Lastly, Elie Wiesel uses allusions all throughout his speech and documentary. During the documentary, Wiesel kept referring back to his time that he was in the concentration camps, to make it feel more personal and real. In his speech it states, “I remember: it happened yesterday, or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the Kingdom of Night.”(Hope, Despair, and Memory by Elie Wiesel). This brings the reader and listener go back to that time and makes them think the type of pain and suffering him and all
Elie Wiesel develops the central idea and advances his point across by using formal diction, pathos, and allusions in his speech and documentary. He uses all of these things so that the audience will be more into the story and know what he was feeling, not just make the audience listen to another bring speech. Throughout the speech and documentary, Wiesel uses formal diction to get his point through more clearly. In his speech he states, “No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.”(Hope, Despair, and Memory by Elie Wiesel). This shows importance and he states it very thoroughly stated so it shows importance to the reader, and draws their attention.
Also throughout his works he uses pathos to grasp the audience attention and make them interested. When he does this, it grasps onto the audiences emotions and makes them feel sorry and want to take a stand to the wrong things in life. In his speech he says, “Whenever human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever man and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must-at that moment- becomes the center of the universe.” (Hope, Despair, and Memory by Elie Wiesel). This makes the audience and the reader feel more emotional to the situation because it has to deal with threatening their own kind, which makes things more personal.
Lastly, Elie Wiesel uses allusions all throughout his speech and documentary. During the documentary, Wiesel kept referring back to his time that he was in the concentration camps, to make it feel more personal and real. In his speech it states, “I remember: it happened yesterday, or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the Kingdom of Night.”(Hope, Despair, and Memory by Elie Wiesel). This brings the reader and listener go back to that time and makes them think the type of pain and suffering him and all