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"And even if he lives to be a very old man, he will always be grateful to them for that rage, and also for their compassion. Though he did not understand their language, their eyes told him what he needed to know -- that they, too, would remember and bear witness."

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His story about the ship that was turned back made a somewhat conceptual argument real in the listeners eyes.

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He used opposing ideas to show contrast such as dark and light to show that indifference is becoming blind to the difference between good and bad

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His rhetorical questions were very deep and thought provoking to really engage the reader to think about how they would react in these situations

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The feared nothing. They felt nothing. They were dead and did not know it.

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only uses one standalone sentence at the bottom of page two to really hammer in his point about his stance on indifference

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Uses the death of children and how if intervention took place then so many of them could have been saved. Creates an emotional real-life example to show how human indifference is worse than anything.

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Makes parallel between indifferent humans and the muselmanner

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He uses anecdotes to garner more sympathy and to enforce his point. : "The depressing tale of the St. Louis is a case in point..."

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Tries to be balanced in his assessment of America.

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On page 3, third paragraph, Wiesel uses a very long sentence, "And our... the Allies" to really draw out the pain he felt thinking that the free world was unaware of what was happening.

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Lots of personal pronouns, you, I, we, our, draws in audience

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Addresses specific people

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Uses the phrase "a young Jewish boy" to establish his ethos to talk about the feelings that he experienced

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He has many different "we"s from one that includes everyone in the world, to ones to just talk about those persecuted

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"And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten."

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he used repetition to emphasize his gratitude. He also used repetition to emphasize that indifference is the easy way out. He used repetition again as a sort of call to action, to get people to be less indifferent and try to help others and make the world better.

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"And in denying their humanity, we betray out own."

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Using his actual experience combined with his knowledge of speech giving gives off a feeling of supreme sincerity, and every problem he has with the lack of action feels so, so very real. You immediately want to believe everything he says.

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"Better an unjust God than an indifferent one."

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He doesn't have the answers to most of the questions that he asks.

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Before he criticizes FDR for not intervening in the Holocaust, he makes sure to compliment FDR's abilities as a president/leader. He does this to prevent people from getting angry at him for what he says.

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Uses lots of repetition and anaphora to emphasize certain points

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"He was finally free, but there was no joy in his heart"
Pathos

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Praises the US during the speech, patriotic

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"They felt nothing. They were dead and did not even know it."

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Uses many rhetorical questions throughout the piece.

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Many of the paragraphs have rhetorical questions in them to encourage the audience to think about what he is saying

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Speaks of his dark past but always remembers to thank Hilary Clinton

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Rhetorical questions like crazy

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He uses a familiar tone by using words like "friends" in the very first sentence and "Hillary" in the second body paragraph