Read the excerpt from Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea . To this day I am shaken when I see a child, for behind him I glimpse other children. Starving, terrified, drained, they march without a backward glance toward truth and death—which are perhaps the same. Uncomplaining, unprotesting, asking no one’s pity, it is as if they have had enough of living on a planet so cruel, so vile and so filled with hate that their very innocence has brought their death. Read the text and study the images from Spiegelman’s Maus . Expand Image Which best describes why Wiesel and Spiegelman include Jewish children in their works?
Answer
A
Both texts point out the innocence and naivete of the children during the Holocaust.
B
Both excerpts show how the children were sheltered from the horrors of the Holocaust as long as possible.
C
Both texts reveal how the Holocaust altered the lives of families, especially the children.
D
Both excerpts focus on the children who survived the Holocaust and the generations that followed.