Assertion #3

          Everybody has different views on things ;and through the eyes of Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, his views are very different. The author asserts that indifference is the real opposite of every action. An example of this is Love and Hate. Loving and hating are both passionate emotions; they both require feeling, the opposite would be to not feel: indifference. In his quote of indifference, he mentions well-known "opposites" but claims that they are really not opposites. An example of this would be "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." Behind these simple words is a strong message.

          Wiesel gets his message across through the uses of syntax, shift and epistrophe. At the end of each line in his quote, it ends with, "it's indifference" causing it to be more rememberable to the reader. That is called epistrophe. The syntax of phrases with epistrophe will allow the reader to create a chain of some sort in their minds. On the last part of the quote however the author switches it up and writes, "but indifference between life and death". This is called a shift, a shift in the syntax. A break in the chain will make the phrase stand out more to the reader.