Comparing Two Excerpts In The Poem Milkweed

Everyone has heard of the holocaust and learned about it in history class, but there is no way that anyone could even imagine how terrible it was unless they experienced it themselves. After reading, “The Boy on the Wooden Box”, by Leon Leyson, it is clear that the author’s tone throughout the story is one of pain and agony. The story Leon tells is about his family’s journey during the holocaust, and all the physical and emotional pain that they went through, but also how lucky they were to have survived.

Both readings give the daily life of a child during the time of the Holocaust.

The terrors of the Holocaust are unimaginably destructive as described in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. The story of his experience about the Holocaust is one nightmare of a story to hear, about a trek from one’s hometown to an unknown camp of suffering is a journey of pain that none shall forget. Hope and optimism vanished while denial and disbelief changed focus during Wiesel’s journey through Europe. A passionate relationship gradually formed between the father and the son as the story continued. The book Night genuinely demonstrates how the Holocaust can alter one's spirits and relations.

The Holocaust was a time of great suffering and inhumanity. The novel Night, which took place during this time, was written by Elie Wiesel and talks about his teen self-experiencing the concentration camps of Auschwitz. This is related to the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas which is the story of a young German boy named Bruno who befriends a Jewish boy in a concentration camp. The many similarities and differences between the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the novel Night include their many themes of “inhumanity” and “guilt and inaction”, and the two also share and differ in the loss of innocence of the characters and how they develop in each medium.

In literature as in life people experience tragedy and suffering. Survivors of the Holocaust can relate to this in more ways than one. In the memoir, “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, it shows how humans can be cruel and kind. During the memoir, it also shows how courage and hope assist survival. Throughout the memoir, there are situations of dehumanization, cruelty, and suffering. This affects people in a such a way that causes intense diseases that they live with for the rest of their life. In contrast, kindness and compassion can positively affect people in their lives even while suffering through the worst of times. In the memoir, many people are faced with different challenges showing how their courage and faith can help them endure the toughest

Has it ever dawned upon you how a twelve year old boy might have experienced the Holocaust? In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Mr. Wiesel told his story, leaving us with an astonishing and vehement view to what it was like to be sent to a concentration camp at the young age of twelve. To enhance the powerful effect of the book, a multitude of motifs were utilized, although one was undeniably conspicuous: The dehumanization of the Jews. The book was a full chronicle of one young man’s experience of the Holocaust, which included multifarious occurrences of the horrors Jewish prisoners were put through, ultimately removing the essence of their humanity. Symbolism was incorporated into this motif, in which Mr. Wiesel showed how one’s eyes not

The Night is absolute a wonderful book of accounting the experience which happened in the Nazi death camp, perhaps, it is one of thoese few books which got published. It uncovers the horrible shocking memory of evil and carries it with unerasable mesagge. I remember when I was reading the book, I could hardly read during some dark nights, all of the bloody scenes would terrify me from falling asleep. The Dark Side of the Moon is another book with exceptional detail on the sufferings of Poles during Holocaust. “Very many of these people were carriers of disease. Enormous numbers of them were children; and for the most part orphans.... The conditions of the deportations, with their epidemics, loss of life, monstrous sufferings, privation and disease of all kinds, were now being reproduced in reverse, and on a still more gigantic scale"(215 Zajdlerowa). Trying to imagine some reports from other survivors which did not get published, all the bloody scenes in the reports will absolutely add more burdens to the readers which causes a negative effect of spreading the truth of Holocasut. Therefore straight inhabitant’s experience of the immediate suffering in the camp fails to inspire people who have passions and are sympathized to the tragedy.

“A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load - little children. Babies! Yes, I saw it with my own eyes… those children in the flames.” (Elie Wiesel, 24) This memoir, told by Elie Wiesel in his book “Night” and published in 1956, describes his experiences surviving the Holocaust. He and his father are forced to endure extremely traumatic experiences. Throughout “Night”, there are moments that are incredibly powerful. These moments are powerful because it really shows how horrible the Holocaust was, and the terrors not only Elie went through, but that almost all Jewish people experienced.

The Holocaust can be described by facts, pictures, history lessons, among others, that can make a strong and lasting impression on an individual. However, testimonies are when the true horrors of this event become real. Testimonies are personal. Their authentic emotions, thoughts, and feelings are wrapped up in a little box with a red bow and given to the public as a fragile gift. Survivor Manya Friedman wrote, “I had little confidence when I started. My hands were so shaky I could barely read my own writing. As I started writing, I was given confidence, support, and encouragement. If I can do this, then you can too” (“The Transition”). Due to her strength and many others, individuals who weren’t affected by the holocaust are fortunate to be provided with such thoughtful insight about how the lives of these Jewish individuals were affected and remain affected. Even so, their experiences are something we will never be able to fathom.

For the following task I have chosen to use an image and a poem. A key narrative that surrounds the holocaust is silence. Silence is demonstrated in different forms through losses of family, tragedy and other several aspects that have had a negative effect in our lives. When referring to the Holocaust where Adolf Hitler was appointed German chancellor, not only did he separate the family bond and religion, he provided harsh treatment and conditions which many children had to suffer from watching. In the following image that has been chosen, the way in which silence is connected to this photograph is the facial expressions indicated by the children. The mouths of the children are closed with faces of pity and brooding as they are worried and

After reading two excerpts, “Until Then I Had Only Read About These,” and, “The Guard.” a poem about children experiencing life during the holocaust there were about 1,000 people killed. It’s clear to the readers that there are some similarities and some differences.There was also Milkweed.

In the first place, the novel and poem are similar because both narrators seem depressed. They seem to feel

Did you know that 6 millions jews died in the Holocaust? Well the story Milkweed, “Until Then I Had Only Read about These Things i Books”, and “The Guard” all talk about kids in the holocaust. It is clear when you read them they have some things in common and some things different about the how the narrator reacts.

In a story written by a 16-year-old girl,” I’ll Go Fetch Her Tomorrow,” the narrator shares her personal experience as a survivor of the Holocaust. She describes her life experience and explains what was going on around her from her point of view. Since she was Jewish she, along with many other children, did not have much say in whether they were going in hiding or not. She was only 16 and was deported alone. She managed to escape and had to go from hiding place to hiding place to keep out of the Nazi’s harsh deportation or even worst avoid being sent to a concentration camp.

The two poems have the same goal but go about reaching the goal very differently. In “A Barred Owl” the adult in the story makes the scary animal to remind the child of something simple like a nursery rhyme. He does this by making the owl screeches into a childish question like “Who cooks for you?”. In “The History Teacher” the poem is based around a history teacher who is doing his best to explain historical events to his class of kids but also trying to prevent them from knowing certain things they don’t need to know. In both poems the goal is attempting to to protect a child’s