Question

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.

A comic book page from 'Maus.' Grandfather says that their cousin Mordecai will be at one of the inspection tables, so he could bring the papers to him. 'What does Fela say?' asks father. 'She's not sure, but if Fela goes, of course I'll go.' He did go, along with 25 to 30 thousand Jews. People were afraid not to show up.

Which best describes why Wiesel and Spiegelman include Jewish children in their works?

Responses

Both texts reveal how the Holocaust altered the lives of families, especially the children.
Both texts reveal how the Holocaust altered the lives of families, especially the children.

Both excerpts focus on the children who survived the Holocaust and the generations that followed.
Both excerpts focus on the children who survived the Holocaust and the generations that followed.

Both texts point out the innocence and naivete of the children during the Holocaust.
Both texts point out the innocence and naivete of the children during the Holocaust.

Both excerpts show how the children were sheltered from the horrors of the Holocaust as long as possible.
Both excerpts show how the children were sheltered from the horrors of the Holocaust as long as possible.
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Answer 1

Both texts reveal how the Holocaust altered the lives of families, especially the children.

Explanation: Wiesel’s passage emphasizes the suffering and loss of children as part of family tragedy; Spiegelman’s scene shows family decisions, fear, and the inclusion of children in the deportations—together they highlight how families and their children were profoundly affected.