Compare&Contrast (the Baker and Speech from Elie Wiesel)
Compare&Contrast of The Baker and The Nobel Peace Price Acceptance Speech
The Baker by Heather Cadsby and The Nobel Peace Price Acceptance Speech by Elie Wiesel both reject the idea of “forgot the past” when it comes to torturous experiences. Nevertheless, Heather Cadsby and Elie Wiesel have different opinions on dealing with the hatred which is brought by these traumas. Heather suggests to use the past suffering to appreciate the we have now while Elie Wiesel advocates for the pursuit of peace.
First of all, both the Baker and the Nobel Peace Price Acceptance Speech have focused on one same topic: the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. “The blue code” on the baker’s arm,which symbolizes his suffering in the concentration camp; his experience in “the Kingdom of Night”, a euphemism for the Holocaust. Both of them indicates that there was a time when people lost their faith in god and humanity. However, the two speakers in both pieces are differently related to this event: in the Baker, the speaker knows someone who is the survivor in the Holocaust instead of experiencing it herself. In the speech, the speaker is someone who actually experienced inhuman treatments himself. “ I remember: it happened yesterday, or eternities ago” (par 7, Wiesel) which indicates that these things have truly happened to him.
In the second place, speakers in both pieces, through their different perspectives, stress the importance and educational meaning of the Holocaust in history that any of us should forget. “Four numbers” are “fixed veins” that will never fade away, and if we ever forget the past, “we are guilty, we are accomplices.” (par 9,Wiesel) However, because of their different perspectives, they have different understanding towards the Holocaust. In the Baker, the speaker sees it only through the “face stamped with kick-shod feet”( line 12,Cadsby) while the survivor Elie Wiesel know what the truth is: “I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. It all happened so
The Baker by Heather Cadsby and The Nobel Peace Price Acceptance Speech by Elie Wiesel both reject the idea of “forgot the past” when it comes to torturous experiences. Nevertheless, Heather Cadsby and Elie Wiesel have different opinions on dealing with the hatred which is brought by these traumas. Heather suggests to use the past suffering to appreciate the we have now while Elie Wiesel advocates for the pursuit of peace.
First of all, both the Baker and the Nobel Peace Price Acceptance Speech have focused on one same topic: the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. “The blue code” on the baker’s arm,which symbolizes his suffering in the concentration camp; his experience in “the Kingdom of Night”, a euphemism for the Holocaust. Both of them indicates that there was a time when people lost their faith in god and humanity. However, the two speakers in both pieces are differently related to this event: in the Baker, the speaker knows someone who is the survivor in the Holocaust instead of experiencing it herself. In the speech, the speaker is someone who actually experienced inhuman treatments himself. “ I remember: it happened yesterday, or eternities ago” (par 7, Wiesel) which indicates that these things have truly happened to him.
In the second place, speakers in both pieces, through their different perspectives, stress the importance and educational meaning of the Holocaust in history that any of us should forget. “Four numbers” are “fixed veins” that will never fade away, and if we ever forget the past, “we are guilty, we are accomplices.” (par 9,Wiesel) However, because of their different perspectives, they have different understanding towards the Holocaust. In the Baker, the speaker sees it only through the “face stamped with kick-shod feet”( line 12,Cadsby) while the survivor Elie Wiesel know what the truth is: “I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. It all happened so