wiesel's speech analysis

Wiesel opened his speech in a most humble clear tone, loud enough to be audibly heard, yet soft enough to portray the deep pain he obviously still felt as he told the story of how his father called out to him just before he died in the bunk bed above him and of how he was too afraid to go to his father’s deathbed for fear of the German guards. His opening reference to his father’s heavenly grave was an attention grabber. (Beebe, pp. 189, 14) He paused for effect and used short simple sentences in his introduction and throughout to allow his audience to visualize and grasp without ambiguity, the reality of his and the other prisoners’ pain and lost. (Beebe, pp. 134,137) Without overloading the audience with long descriptive details of his horrific experience, he enabled the audience to receive him allowing them to feel and hear the honesty infused in his few remorseful words of recollection. (Beebe, pp. 19, 79) With direct eye-contact, Wiesel stood erect before the audience with hands held loosely together in a humble display of character and integrity. (Beebe, pp. 142-143)
To achieve a warm reception, he assessed his audience and appropriately referenced the current German Chancellor’s civic contribution and President Obama’s earlier speech on humanity. (Beebe text, p. 43) He challenged the world’s claim of learning from the historical atrocity by calling to the victims of Rwanda, Darfur, and Bosnia selecting the best supporting material suitably concrete and of enough magnitude. (Beebe, pp. 97, 118) Wiesel spoke with the right intonation of measurable staccato in addition to pausing between good volume to emphasis his dissatisfaction and portrayal of the yet ill-condition of humanity. In perfect pitch, he asked, “Will the world ever learn?” (Beebe, p. 190)
As the speech moved from the introduction, through the body and onto the conclusion with good verbal transitions, he used an appropriate quotation to drive the depth of his feelings home. (Beebe, pp. 111,