The authors of The Terrible Things, Speech, and Night use symbolism and repetition to teach the lesson that people should be warned to help stop things like the Holocaust from happening.
In both The Terrible Things and Night the authors use symbolism to warn us to prevent things like the Holocaust by explaining that if you don’t speak up when things are wrong you may regret it. On pages 6 and 7 of The Terrible Things the author writes “The rabbits scampered in every direction. ‘Help!’ they screamed. ‘Somebody help!’. But there was no one left to help”. This story is symbolic of the Holocaust because the rabbits represent the Germans/ the people who stood by and let the Nazis do what they did to the Jews. The Terrible Things that came to take …show more content…
In speech the author includes “Then they came for me and by that time there was no one left to speak up”. The author repeats the phrase “they came for” over and over throughout the story. This shows how because the power wasn't stopped the people kept coming after people and it's showing how because they never said anything to stop it. The Holocaust ended so many lives and was a tragedy to so many people even those not even directly involved. Martin Niemoller, the author really tries to get this message across using the repetition to show how quickly power can be abused and become dangerous on a scary level really quickly. In Night by Elie Wiesel the opening statement of the excerpt states “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp”. Similar to Martin, Elie repeats the phrase “Never shall I forget” in his memoir. By this use of repetition he can really get the point across if how traumatic the Holocaust was and although he is a survivor the horrors he faced, he will never be able to get rid of. This is a good use of repetition because it gets the message across that sometimes power needs to be stopped or it can become horrific. In both the poem and memoir the author's use this message and concrete element to overall give people warning to be able to prevent things like this in the
In both The Terrible Things and Night the authors use symbolism to warn us to prevent things like the Holocaust by explaining that if you don’t speak up when things are wrong you may regret it. On pages 6 and 7 of The Terrible Things the author writes “The rabbits scampered in every direction. ‘Help!’ they screamed. ‘Somebody help!’. But there was no one left to help”. This story is symbolic of the Holocaust because the rabbits represent the Germans/ the people who stood by and let the Nazis do what they did to the Jews. The Terrible Things that came to take …show more content…
In speech the author includes “Then they came for me and by that time there was no one left to speak up”. The author repeats the phrase “they came for” over and over throughout the story. This shows how because the power wasn't stopped the people kept coming after people and it's showing how because they never said anything to stop it. The Holocaust ended so many lives and was a tragedy to so many people even those not even directly involved. Martin Niemoller, the author really tries to get this message across using the repetition to show how quickly power can be abused and become dangerous on a scary level really quickly. In Night by Elie Wiesel the opening statement of the excerpt states “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp”. Similar to Martin, Elie repeats the phrase “Never shall I forget” in his memoir. By this use of repetition he can really get the point across if how traumatic the Holocaust was and although he is a survivor the horrors he faced, he will never be able to get rid of. This is a good use of repetition because it gets the message across that sometimes power needs to be stopped or it can become horrific. In both the poem and memoir the author's use this message and concrete element to overall give people warning to be able to prevent things like this in the