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Rhetorical Analysis Of 'The Perils Of Indifference'

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Elie Wiesel, the human rights activist and Nobel peace prize-winning author of more than 50 books, in his compassionate speech, “The Perils of Indifference,” He wanted to convey that ¨indifference is worse than hate or anger.¨ He questions the dangers of indifference that he calls ¨a strange and unnatural state in which the lines blur between light and darkness, dusk and dawn, crime and punishment, cruelty and compassion, good and evil. Using repetition specific words such as gratitude, humanity, indifference, god.¨ These words stress the significance of these topics in relation. He effectively uses the words gratitude, humanity, indifference, god to emphasize the traits of the indifferent. ''Wiesel’s purpose is to convince us to know that when someone is indifferent to the suffering of another He/she is guilty as the person causing suffering in order to recommend not to be indifferent." He creates a(n) informative tone for readers by using stylistic devices (and or rhetorical devices such as repetition, alliteration in order to develop his message that the four words define what is indifferent.

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