Themes In First They Came, And Terrible Things

You hear a military truck roll towards your house,”I’m safe, I am a Christian” you thought, but you realized, you have a Jewish descent. You are NOT safe, you will be taken and later see what is to come. This event happened to many people in World War II, many Jewish people were taken away from their homes and put in Concentration Camps. Not only Jews were taken, people of their descent were taken too. Throughout reading Night, “First They Came,” and Terrible Things a theme has been repeated in the texts: People tend to ignore what does not involve them.

In these books all had a similar universal theme. In Night, a character, Moshie the Beadle, was a sole survivor of a Nazi attack telling people of this event in which no one believed him since they were not affected by it. Moshie the Beadle went one and said,”They think I’m mad,”(Wiesel, 3) to the main protagonist with,”... tears like wax…” (Wiesel, 3) flowing from Moshie’s eyes. In “First They Came” the same theme is also told. Each time a group or political party, like

In Night, it was written as a memoir showing the reader on what it was like to be in the author’s shoes. Given this real life story of the Holocaust can show what it was like to hear what happened to people of your ethnicity, since they thought it was too horrifying they put a false sense of security by ignoring the stories. On the other hand, “First They Came” was written as a poem. Poems tend to be small but tell a lot, the author chose this genre because they were a Protestant Pasture that normally does not have time to say much. Though the author of Terrible Things was not in the Holocaust, it made it easier to write an allegory to it in a children’s book. The author, Eve Bunting, was known to write children's books, this meant that an allegory could teach children the overall theme and lesson without the reader knowing about the