The Perils Of Indifference Ethos Pathos Logos

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“Liberated a day earlier by American soldiers, he remembers their rage at what they saw” (Wiesel). In the Holocaust six million Jews were killed. They were brought to the concentration camps in cattle cars. At Auschwitz one-point-six million people died. Elie Wiesel’s “The Perils of Indifference” uses ethos, pathos, and rhetorical questions in order to persuade people that the opposite of love is indifference and not hate. The first strategy Elie Wiesel uses is ethos. For example, the author states, “A young boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up. (Wiesel). It gives creditability because we know he survived. The author states, “I stand before you, Mr. President—commander-in-chief of the army that freed me” (Wiesel). It shows

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