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One common theme that is found throughout the three text NIght which is an excerpt written by Elie Wiesel, First They Came For The Communists which is an poem written by Martin Niemoller, and Terrible Things which is an allegory written by Eve Bunting. There all the same because they all have the same meaning and want the same thing from the reader which is to get the to know about the Holocaust. These three text common theme that I found while reading was ¨Speak up because you never know what might happen.¨
For instance the Night excerpt can be compared to the other text with the same theme which is ¨Speak up because you never know what might happen.¨ The excerpt Night was an Autobiography about Elie Wiesel and his experience during the Holocaust. IN the excerpt he is talking about Moishe the Beadle experience how they were took and put in a train made for animals and stopped at a destination and were forced to built trenches were the would be killed in. He was injured and left for dead and escaped. ¨How had he, Moishe the Beadle, been able to escape? By a miracle. He was wounded in the leg and left for dead.¨(Wiesel, 7). After he escaped he tried to warn everyone but they thought he wanted their pity and he was imagining things, ¨Some even insisted that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things.¨(Wiesel, 9). This was
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the way they explained the theme. Similar to the excerpt Night the poem First They Came For The Communists is about a person and how when the Nazi´s came they were silent and they when the Nazi came for them they was no one to speak up.
This connects to the theme ¨Speak up because you never know what might happen¨ and shows how if they were would have spoke up and suck together things could may be different. He said, ¨When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent: I was not a communist.¨(Niemoller, 1,2,3). Also, ¨When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.¨(Niemoller, 13,14). This is an clear examples of the theme and explains it
totally. In addition the last text Terrible Things is an allegory about the holocaust but it deals with animals instead of humans and the Nazis are called Terrible Things. Every time the the terrible things came they would come and take one type of an animal they would so nothing to help them but say the thing they didn't like about them. They were just one animal named little rabbit who question everything but was told not to. This was like The text First They Came For The Communists and Night the excerpt because everyone was capture but one escaped (little Bunny). ¨When they had all gone Little Rabbit crept into the middle of the empty clearing. I should have tried to help the other rabbits, he thought. If only we creatures had stuck together, it could have been different. Sadly, Little Rabbit left the clearing. He’d go tell other forest creatures about the Terrible Things. He hoped someone would listen. ” (Bunting, 5). This shows they connect to the text and the theme, ¨Speak up because you never know what might happen.¨ So what is the common theme from all texts? That would be ¨Speak up because you never know what might happen.¨ I was able to show how the theme connect to all text and also tell how all the text are alike.
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Having an opinion and or a belief is better than not having one at all. A great man such as Elie Wiesel would agree to that statement. He believes standing up for what is right by showing compassion for a fellow human being than for letting good men do nothing while evil triumphs. The message he passes was how indifference is showing the other man he is nothing. He attempts to grasp the audience by personal experiences and historic failures, we need to learn from and also to grow to be the compassionate human being we all are.
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...istory, while at the same time provides a sense of remembrance and seminal value, as well as understanding of the true events that took place during the holocaust. Wiesel subconsciously uses the theme of witnesses in his book Night, which demonstrates the daily struggles and harsh environment experienced by those who were trapped at the camps. Although the book only accounts for one person’s experience, all of the others who suffered are in a way intertwined. Although on the broad spectrum millions have been affected by the holocaust, Elizer’s narration accounts for each of them, showing they had their own story, their own life they left behind, their own conflicts, both internally and with the Nazis. Night, by Elie Wiesel encompasses the will to survive, the witnessing of historical events, the personal accounts of those affected, and remembrance of the holocaust.
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