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Comparing 'Night And Terrible Things'

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In the story “Terrible Things”, the author used fictional events that were similar to the Holocaust to get his lesson across. The theme of the story was that people should speak up for others instead of ignoring the problems. The Niemoller poem and the excerpt from “Night” are different from “Terrible Things” because they both tell stories from the perspective of people who were survivors of the Holocaust, but their themes have some similarities. The theme of the excerpt from “Night” is that people should take action before it is too late. The lesson that Niemoller wanted to teach through the poem is that people should speak up for others who cannot speak up for themselves. These stories have themes that are similar, and the authors convey the themes in different ways. One way that the authors conveyed the theme was through similar story events. In “Terrible Things”, the terrible things took away different types of animals, and the rabbits did not help. This is supported in paragraph 9, where it says, “But the Terrible Things had brought there terrible nets, and they flung them high and and caught the birds and carried them away.” The …show more content…

Both of the stories use dialogue to convey the theme. In “Night”, Moishe is a survivor who escaped and talked to the other characters about what happened to warn them. The text in paragraph 9 says, “He spoke only of what he had seen. But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen.” This shows that they all chose to ignore him. In “Terrible Things”, Little Rabbit tried to talk to Big Rabbit about what happened, and he said things like, “These porcupines always were bad tempered”, and “We are white rabbits. It couldn’t happen to us.” This shows that he tried to justify the other animals being taken away to make him feel more safe. The event after this was similar to Night, because Little Rabbit also escaped to warn other forest

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