Night And If You Come Softly By Pauline Woodson

“While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.”- Lew Wallace. Lew Wallace is an American lawyer. He writes about religious points. This is considered big since he thinks that something can be more just than unjust. Although Social in justice plays a big role in history today it has brought some good and bad things. Social in Justice is fairness or when something is not being fair. Social injustice can also mean a situation with a group or person with rights that are being ignored. In the memoir, “Night” By” Elie Wiesel and the short story “On the Sidewalk Bleeding” and the Fiction Novel “If you come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson. These authors show how one group can be more powerful than another. As a reader you

They got told what to do. They never had anything they couldn’t try on because they were told to do or they would die. As father and Elie arrived in Birkenau they were just getting off the cattle cars. They arrived at midnight. They were smelling the burning flesh in the air."The SS officers gave the order."Form ranks of fives!"There was a tumult. It was imperative to stay together" (Wiesel, 30). Elie and his father were getting told to be put in certain lines. The SS officers are the main people at the camp. They have to listen to the officers. However the SS officers also had another point in time that they were being higher than others. The Jewish campers were just getting ready to go on the buses to go to Birkenau. The SS officers gave the men and the women orders. The Jews were already nervous to get to the camp. The SS officers are calling them names and giving them orders what to do. Ellie and the father are very smushed in the cattle cars. "An SS came toward us wielding a club. He commanded: "Men to the left! Women to the right!"Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion"(Wiesel, 30). Elie and his father again were getting told to be in certain lines. They were having to get in lines for after the cattle cars. They were miserable the whole time they were not free at all. They had to listen to the main officers at the camp. Therefore Elie and his father

He lives in New York and goes to a private school Percy Academy. He is dating a white girl Ellie that sometime people make fun of them for it.Jeremiah and his dad had been talking about how his father's dad told him stuff that you shouldn't do because you are a different race and the whites think that something happens when blacks run in neighborhoods. His father told him "Every since he was a little boy, his father had always warned him about running in white neighborhoods. Once, when he was about ten, he had torn away from his father and taken off down Madison Avenue. When his father caught up to him, he grabbed Miah’s shoulder. Don’t you ever run in a white neighborhood, he’d whispered fiercely, tears in his eyes. Then he had pulled Miah toward him and held him. Ever" (Woodson, 143). His father told him this because he can get shot if he does this. Miah took what his father told him and used it and never ran in the neighborhoods that white people live in. Miah experienced another point in his life when he thought one group was above another. When Miah and Ellie were walking in the park they kept passing people that kept giving them dirty looks. When they were walking in the park they were passing women that keep looking at them very weirdly. They thought something might of have been wrong with them because you usually a back guy isn’t really with a women. “Two old women, walking arm in arm, eyed us. Jeremiah