Question

Which theme is addressed in both excerpts?
Ignorance of reality is preferable to awareness.
Physical sensations can be just as painful as the event itself.
People can be worn down to the point of giving up.
Reality can be inexplicably cruel and unfair. 2Elie Wiesel most likely wrote All Rivers Run to the Sea to
lessen public awareness of the events of the Holocaust.
stop himself from having any type of emotional release.
attempt to make sense of the atrocities he experienced.
keep other Holocaust survivors from reaching out to him. 3Which best describes why Wiesel and Spiegelman include Jewish children in their works?
Both texts point out the innocence and naivete of the children during the Holocaust.
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 show how the children were sheltered from the horrors of the Holocaust as long as possible.

Answer 1

1) Reality can be inexplicably cruel and unfair.
2) attempt to make sense of the atrocities he experienced.
3) Both texts reveal how the Holocaust altered the lives of families, especially the children.