Elie Wiesel Assertion Analysis

    Elies Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust, and he knows a thing or two about taking action in order to make change. He once told a speech to the public in America that asserted his views on how Americans are failing to make change in their own country.
    The Holocaust survivor's assertion in his text is that Americans mostly decide to be indifferent to many, many different causes. He describes love and hate being more similar than we think, the true opposite is indifference; not having any feelings at all towards anything. Another example is that life is not the opposite of death, it is indifference because not caring whether you are alive or dead is what makes you indifferent. Finally, America not joining World War II until Pearl Harbor is another example that may have influenced Wiesel's mindset due to the fact 6,000,000 Jewish could have been saved if America got involved in the War sooner.
    To achieve the assertion that Wiesel conveyed, he used syntax, anaphora, and diction. Syntax was used to compare seemingly opposite ideas, and then refute it by using the word "indifferent", which made the reader think about that word in that situation. Every sentence was structured like this, so that was his use of anaphora. Finally, his use of diction improved pathos with comparing words such as, love and hate, beauty and ugliness, faith and heresy, and life and death to leave an impression on the reader.