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Summary Of To The Little Polish Boy Stand With His Arms Up

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Two holocaust wirings showed the world the horrors and facts of the naizs intention to slaughter the jews “The Devil's Arithmetic” and To The Little Polish Boy Standing With His Arms Up.The Author of “The Devil's Arithmetic” Jane Yolen ends with a tone of compassion and recognition and informs us of the death camps and the sacrifice the Jews made Yolen also uses tools to draw in her readers tools like her personal experience of being a jew and family connection with the death camps and also facts. But in the poem To The Little Polish Boy Standing With His Arms Up by Peter L. Fischl, he makes more of a tone of shame and guilt, and how the world didn't do anything to help anyone. Fischl uses tools like capitalization and repetition. The main purpose of the“The Devil’s Arithmetic” is to honor the one who lost their life and to not stand by and watch, it was also to inform people …show more content…

Fischl’s tone is forceful and shameful because we did nothing the way Fischl does this by using tools like Repetition,capitalization,and hyperbole. Fischl uses the point of view of the Polish boy which help to show the shame and guilt and says “I am sorry that it was you and not me”and Repeats this saying , “ Standing with your Little hat on your head The Star of David on your coat Standing in the ghetto with your arms up as many Nazi machine guns pointing at you”. This show the way he uses these tools The whole purpose of Jane Yolen and the book “The Devil’s Arithmetic” and Peter L. Fischl and his poem To The Little Polish Boy Standing With His Arms Up is to honor,respect and remember, and to inform that you have to do something and history repeats itself and should care and they use tools like repetition,capitalization and the point of view of the Polish boy. Also tools like personal perspective and facts to show what happened during those horrible

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