Question

In his speech "The Perils of Indifference," Elie Wiesel seems to want in part to ensure that the audience never forgets the holocaust. Does this speech achieve this purpose? Why or why not? Be sure to use specific details from the speech to support your ideas

Answer 1

He talked about how he felt really forgotten and abandoned during the holocaust and that he felt remembered by the American people. It would be to forget anyways, but this speech definitely ensured that no one would forget about the events of the Holocaust.

Answer 2

Elie Wiesel was a survivor of the Holocaust. His speech in the White House on April 12, 1999 was listened to president Bill Clinton and the first lady Hillary Clinton. And surely achieve the purpose to remember always what happened.

He talks about his experience and he feels remembered by the American people while when he was there he felt forgotten, abandoned. A word that he mention is the following: indifference. It’s easier keep living in our indifference without thinking of the horror of past or the present, referring for example to the war in Kosovo he reflects on the human behavior and the capacity of learning of the human being from the mistakes of the past. And keep looking to the future as when he was a child walking with the soldier that saved, with fear and a big hope.