Comparing Jane Yolen's To The Little Polish Boy Standing With His Arms Up

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In WWII during the Holocaust and it’s demoralization and yet it’s spectacle leading to great literature. Two divergent pieces of Holocaust literature inform us about the similar purposes, yet unlike tones, both authors using writing tools to drive their tones. Jane Yolen’s novel, The Devil's Arithmetic, shows us how it felt and feels to be in those harsh conditions in a death camp, yet has a tone of pride, empowerment, and honor and sacrifices. Peter Fischl’s poem, “To the Little Polish Boy Standing with His Arms Up,” is a salute to the ones that lived in the ghetto, but making the bystanders feel regret for what they could have done. His tone of voice is utterly powerful and yet distinct. Both authors showing their universal thought, and by asking us to be informed and reverence for their sacrifices. …show more content…

Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory.” This shows that Yolen’s tone recites to the factual horror of the Holocaust, yet the honorable are honored. This shows that, that Jane Yolen puts in facts of personal experience in the structure. She is sympathetic and empowers the reader. Jane Yolen leads us to her quote. “The swallows still sing around smokestacks.” This shows that, while showing hope and compassion is still alive, the daunting of the Holocaust and its death camps are surrounded by the sacrifices. This shows that while putting in figurative language and the structure of the factual. Although her tone of voice to support her

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