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The Guard Analysis

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These three excerpts from MilkWeed, “Until Then I Had Only Read about These Things in Books..”, and “The Guard” all have similar and different understandings. Each of these books have a idea with the dark times of the holocaust. All excerpts that come from either novels or the poem all have similarity approaches of how they see the Nazis. One similarity is that all three excerpts had the main characters hear the Nazis. Evidence to support this from one of the novel the MIlkWeed is Another piece of text from the poem “The Guard” says, “The German guard stands at the fence.” These pieces of text states that each character came incontact/heard the Nazis or the jackboots in the stories. Another similarity is each story “The Guard” and “Until …show more content…

One difference of how they see they Niasis is they have different opinions about them. Evidence the expect of MilkWeed says “They were magnificent. There were men attached to them but it was as if the boots were wearing the men.” Another piece of text from the excerpt “Until Then I Had Only Read about These Things in Books..” says “ I hated having to hide and listen to them search for us. It would would scare me to death.” These two pieces of text reveal that they each had a different opinion about the nasis adressing if the were good or bad, magnificent or scary. They each showed different emotions of how they feel. Another difference of how the narrator sees the Nazis is that in the “Until Then I Had Only Read about These Things in Books..” the narrator or character is hiding from the Nazis and in the novel MilkWeed the character is not hiding but talking to them. In the text “Until Then I Had Only Read about These Things in Books..” it says “We would sometimes huddled together in the attic…” and from the book MilkWeed it states “The soldiers smiled down at me.” These pieces are explaining that the narrator/characters each see them in a different way and also one is hiding from them and one is

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