Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things In Wood

Milkweed, “Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books,” and “The Guard” are all about children and adults experiencing life during the Holocaust. In these excerpts and poems the narrator views the Nazis in similar but different ways. There were many similarities and differences between these three excerpts. One similarity is that the poem, “The Guard” and the excerpt, “Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books” they both show that the characters are scared. From the excerpt, “Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books” it states, “We couldn’t make a sound, and all we would hear was the sound of people searching, their footsteps, their knocking on the walls.” This evidence shows that they are hiding from …show more content…
In the excerpt Milkweed it states, “The soldier smiled down at me. He mussed my hair and pinched my cheek. ‘Tiny little Jew,” he said. ‘Happy to …show more content…
In the excerpt Milkweed it states, “I thought he would cheer, but he did not. He stood behind me with his hands on my shoulders. I looked at the faces of the crowd. No one was cheering, or even smiling. I was surprised.” In the excerpt, “Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books” it states, “I hated having to hide and listen to them search for us. It would scare me to death. It scared me even when we were together with the adults.” These two pieces of evidence show that the character from Milkweed is not scared of the German soldiers. The character from “Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books” they were so scared of the soldiers that even when they were with the adults they still didn’t feel safe. Another difference is that the excerpt, “Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books” the character is hiding from the soldiers. The excerpt Milkweed, the character is not hiding they are in the street greeting one of the soldiers. The excerpt, “Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books” it states, “We would sit sometimes all huddled together in an attic or basement, locked in a closet or in a cove behind a stone wall.” the excerpt from Milkweed states, “He mussed my hair and pinched my cheek. ‘Tiny little Jew,” he