Comparing Two Excerpts In The Poem Milkweed

“The Shawl” by Cynthia Ozick is short story in which a mother, her child, and her niece are described as they walk through a concentration camp during the Holocaust. This work is well known for its prominent use of figurative language. For a story about the Holocaust, it may seem odd as to why this language was used instead of a factual style of writing which is common in these types of stories. Ozick uses figurative language excessively in attempt to describe such a horrific situation. Some may criticize the author and even take offense to the way the story was written, but it does not have the same effect when told differently. Most accounts of the Holocaust are hard to comprehend, even for those who experienced it themselves. Ozick stated in an interview that even if everyone “were to spend the next five thousand years absorbing and assimilating the documents, it still

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

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

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

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.

One similarity that the poems “A Blessing” and “Predators” have is that they both have tame animals. An example that supports this statement it that in the poem “Predators” there are two tame animals or domesticated animals. One example that proves this theory is that in the poem it explains that there is a dog and a cat that is the speaker’s pets. Additionally, in the poem “A Blessing” it explains that in the poem it informes that “We stepped over the barbed wire into the pasture.” This proves that the two Indian ponies are tame because the barbed wire is protecting them and they are in a pasture. Furthermore, the speakers also have similarities. One similarity between James Wright and Linda Hogan is that in the two poems they both learn something. James Wright learns about the feelings that the two Indian ponies had and how that made him happy and peaceful. Likewise, Linda Hogan learns that she needs to be more protective of her pets once she finds out that there are wild animals living in her

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

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.

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.

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

The second poem is “Home Burial”, by Robert Frost. The poem is about a couple, Amy and her husband, losing their son causing Amy to go through emotional turmoil. Amy is trying to avoid the situation by trying to leave, but her husband is trying to pull her back, so he can figure out what’s wrong with her and as the poem continues the drama increases. The topic of the poem is sadness, which ties into the theme of Amy and her husband’s relationship is on the rock. The theme in this poem is that everyone goes through sadness, but bottling it up doesn’t help the situation. This is due to the death of their son and as the story continues the husband is trying to understand, why Amy is acting the way she is but she receives the message as rude and offensive. Most of the tension is coming from the graveyard, which resigns on their lot that contains their relatives and son. In lines 1-2, it expresses my theme because it has both

Everyone experiences emotional and physiological obstacles in their life. However, these obstacles are incomparable to the magnitude of the obstacles the prisoners of the Holocaust faced every day. In his memoir, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, illustrates the horrors of the concentration camps and their mental tool. Over the course of Night, Wiesel demonstrates, that exposure to an uncaring, hostile world leads to destruction of faith and identity.