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To The Little Polish Boy Standing With His Arms Up Analysis

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Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor , never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. The holocaust was an extermination of the Jews. This started in 1933 and it ended in 1945. The holocaust took place in Germany, Poland, and Europe. The Jews were used as scape goats for the Nazis. The two texts that I will be discussing will be the book Night and the poem "To the Little Polish Boy Standing With His Arms Up". The holocaust was a very horrible place. Families suffered everyday until they died. Children were being burned alive. All these people had dreams that they wanted to make reality. For them having to go through camp made them loose hope and faith.
One important part of Night is the change in relationship Elie had with his father through out camp. In the book Night, Elie often feels worried that him and his father are going to be separated from each other but he also feels some kind of guilt. On page 32, Elie says, " I first wanted to see where they would send my father. Were he to have gone to the right, I would have run after him." This shows how Elie feels about …show more content…

The author uses mood to really get the message out there, so people can feel what the victims felt everyday. "I am not an artist But my mind has painted a painting of you " this element contributes to the poem because it makes the author feel like he wasn’t enough to be able to do anything to help those people that suffered everyday. He had a view that by telling everyone about the horrible pain that they went through people would remember that and that way they can honor those people. I would recommend this poem to everyone that wants to know what they had to go through and why they never said

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