Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things In Books Essay

MilkWeed, “Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books,” and “The Guard” are entirely about children experiencing the sad and majorly horrible Holocaust lead by Adolf Hitler. In these two excerpts and a neatly written poem, the authors/narrators show their similar and different views towards the Nazis.

First, a similarity between the excerpt from the passage, “Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books” and the poem, “The guard,” the narrator/author don’t come into contact with the Nazi. My evidence from, “Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books” is, “We couldn’t make a sound, and all we would hear was the sound of the people searching, their footsteps, their knocking on the walls.” My evidence from the poem, “The Guard” is, “Dora and I must pass by him on our walk to …show more content…
Dora looks straight ahead. I look down at my feet. Step, step. Thump, thump, my heart is racing, but my feet walk as if they have nothing to fear.” Both of these pieces of evidence prove that the narrator/author did not come into contact with the Nazi even though, the Nazi were around them. The only way to come into contact with a person is if you look, or even interact with that person. Another similarity between the poem, “The Guard, and the excerpt from the passage, “Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books” is that they are afraid of the Nazi. My evidence from, “Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books” is, “It would scare me to death. It even scared me when we were together with the adults. We would sit sometimes all huddled together in an attic or basement, locked in a closet or in a cove behind a stone wall.” My evidence from the poem “The Guard” is, “But there are many other stories happening inside this fence, inside this ghetto, that I cannot think about right now, because the guard is lifting