First they came... Essays

The deeply rooted antisemitism existed earlier in time gave the blueprint to start the Holocaust, the inaction of the bystanders can be viewed as the main ingredient that allowed the Holocaust to reach the magnitude it did. The psychological factors, ordinary people refused to acknowledge the crimes of the Holocaust, the bystanders stayed silent and the hiding behind words is a way to look at the role of the bystanders in the Holocaust. During the Holocaust you could do three things, (1) you do the

Authors, although you may not notice at first glance, always have a specific style of writing that effects the tone of their writing. Scott Simon's, "SEVEN DECADES ON," and Martin Niemoller's, " First, They Came," equally show how each's style contributes to the two of their text. Some examples of style that effect tone is sentence structure, vocabulary, and use of irony. Niemoller and Simon's text both use their own type of sentence structure and vocabulary to add to the tone of their writing

If your friends jumped off a bridge would you? In “The Lottery” the townspeople participate in a lottery and if they get the black dot and win the lottery they get stoned by the townspeople. In “First They Came” The Nazi’s are capturing different social classes. The Author tries not to call attention to himself by speaking up for the social classes. As you can see, both stories have the theme of following the crowd. You shouldn’t do what everyone else is doing. Both of these stories have a common

slip of paper from a box, the person who draws the slip with a black dot family draws, the person who gets the slip again dies. The poem “First They Came” is about a man named Martian who escaped Nazi concentration camps. He didn’t speak up for the people taken by the Nazi’s, he regretted it after words. Both “the Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “First They Came” by Martian deals with how blindly following a crowd can have disastrous consequences. To begin with the “ The Lottery” is about blindly

Night tells Elie Wiesel’s story of his experiences during the Holocaust as a Jew. “First They Came” by Martin Niemoller tells of his experience during the Holocaust as a German citizen. Both works explore life within the Holocaust and how indifference was felt to them. However, there are differences between their positions within the Holocaust and how they ended up in concentration camps. These similarities and differences help readers see the importance of not being indifferent and the effects that

When analyzing the two pieces of literature, “First They Came,” written by Pastor Martin Niemoller, and the short story “Terrible Things,” by Eve Bunting, there is noticeable connections but there are also many differences. To begin, one is a short story and one is a poem, which is already divergent on its own. There is also other examples such as the diction that the authors use, the syntax, and the use of symbols. Though unalike in various ways, they are also very analogous in the way of common

“The Lottery” And “First They Came”, have similar themes or messages. The lottery is about a small town in a fiction world that needs to keep up a tradition by having a lottery. But in this case winning the lottery is not a good thing. The poem First they came is about a man where everyone around him is being taken by the Nazis because they are either Jewish, Socialists, and the Unionists. And since he didn’t back any of them up there was no one to back him up when the Nazis came for him. The fictional

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “First They Came” by Martin Niemoller are two stories alike, but both have differences. The theme to the both of the stories is, never blindly follow others because it can lead to bad things like death, or punishment. The plot of the story “The Lottery” is about villagers gather around once a year commit in a ritual, the villagers pick a card from a black box and try not to win. The main idea in the story “First They Came” is don’t blindly follow someone because

If you break the statement down then it begins to come together and make sense. For starters, in the poem ‘’First they came’’ by Martin Niemöller the poem states, ’’Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.’’ This is an example of what Elie Wiesel said in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. This example shows that bad people came for Jews and the person in the poem did not speak up or do anything to try and stop the bad people,

of the Egyptian Empire and he was also worshipped outside of Egypt. What gods came first? Atum created Shu and Tefnut. Shu was the husband of Tefnut and the father of Nut and Geb. Shu was a creator. He was the god of the air and sunlight or dry air and his wife represented moisture while Nut was the goddess of the sky and Geb was the god of the earth. When was the first ruling god in Egypt? Osiris was the first ruling god in Egypt, he was also the god of the Underworld which was a role that

Robert Niemoller’s poem, “First They Came…”, and Elie Wiesel’s speech, “The Perils of Indifference”, both deal with the fact that indifference has many consequences. However, there are some clear differences between the two. While each work uses literary devices to portray its message, they use different devices to portray different messages. Niemoller uses anaphora, pauses, and mesodiplosis to convey a regretful, hopeless tone, and Wiesel uses parallelism, rhetorical questions, and juxtaposition

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

Don’t be a Bystander If the citizens of Germany never agreed with Hitler’s ideology the atrocities of that war would have never happened, maybe even the war wouldn’t have happened. Pastor Niemoller’s poem “First They Came” is the best imagery of this. If people would have stopped the persecution of Communists in Germany they could have halted the persecution of people who were not Hitler’s ideal people, could have saved millions. When people allow bad things to happen while knowing about the situation

What Came First, the Feminist or the Abolitionist? Among the deep and dark history of the human race, two of the most unjust and despicable truths are the inhumane treatments of both African-Americans and women. As the more privileged section of the population continued to discriminate against minorities for both their sex and the color of their skin, it should come as no surprise that these groups decided they had had enough marshaled enough support to fight for their rights. It should not even

What Came First, Reading or Writing? Thinking back upon my education in my early childhood years, school has always been the foundation to the learning process of my reading and writing experience. From learning the letters of the alphabet to actually being able to form sentences and placing my thoughts into words, I have learned the correct usage of reading and writing. But I didn’t understand the different concept of what it means to read and write until my senior year of high school. My

The poem “First they came” by Martin Neimoller and the allegory "Terrible Things” by Eve Bunting express a similar theme of inaction although the authors’ used different modes to get their message across. Throught the allegory “Terrible things” it tells us how one animal gets taken away one by one but they thought nothing of it and they tried to justify why the other animals were getting taken away. In the allegory page 8, it says, “Those squirrels were greedy,” Big Rabbit said. “Always storing away

airplanes, and many more. This brought many changes into society such as better living conditions for most people and also brought on many jobs to do so everyone could have a job to keep them busy while also having money to live off of. The first big change that came from the industrial revolution was better living conditions for most people. Before the industrial revolution there was not much room for advancement because everything had to be done by hand which took forever and wasn’t

One time that I faced a challenge was when I came to the HGC (Highly Gifted Center). This was a challenge for me because none of my friends had come and I was not even sure if I would like it. Switching schools may not seem like a big deal, but it is hard to leave a school you know you will be leaving soon anyway. I know that I would be switching schools in middle school, but it is not the same, or at least it didn't feel like it. Before I knew that I had gotten in, I told myself that there

that I grew up in. it was hard for me to leave my orphanage in China I had lived there my whole life and thought of the orphanage as my home. After being adopted and now living in America I have so many opportunities I did not have in China. When I first came to America I had to have 8 surgeries and spent 6 months in a wheel chair but this was done to remove a potential cancerous birthmark covering my entire lower leg. In china, surgery was not possible. I also was able to play sports and go to school

Revenge have always been off missguided thoughts. If you were put in an situation where a person harm you or did you wrong. What would be your first instinct? Most people would determine how to get back on the person or vengeance. It is in human nature to find the best way to get revenge. When people finally achieve there revenge it most likely won’t deliver any satisfaction. Revenge have always affected people actions, people suffering, and decisions afterwards. Revenge is the action of imposing