Elie Wiesel's Night And First They Came For The Communists

The Terrible Things by Eve Bunting, follows the theme of impending doom but no one wanting to believe it. We also view this theme in Elie Wiesel's Night and Martin Niemoller's First They Came For The Communists. In Eve Buntings interpretation of the Holocaust they show that even though the terrible things kept coming and taking animals away, the other animals didn't worry because it wasn't them. We see this become apparent on page four. The terrible things came for, ¨...Every creature with feathers on it´s back,¨ in response, the animals without feathers retorted, ¨We don't have feathers… nor we… nor we,¨ However, it states that after the birds were taken away things went back to almost normal. We also see this happen in Elie Wiesel's Night,
after the foreigners, including Moishe the Beadle, were taken away, ¨Life was normal again,¨ as seen in paragraph five of the excerpt. By the same token, in Niemoller´s First They Came For The Communists they showed the repetitive act of ´it´s not me so who cares.´ It stated how when they came for everyone else he didn't speak out but when they came for him, ¨There was no one left to speak out.¨ This was also prominent in Eve Bunting´s story on page twelve, ¨They screamed, ´Somebody help!´ but there was no one else to help,¨ In connection, page fifteen of the allegory referenced the little rabbit escaping and telling others if only they would listen. We have seen this before in Night, no one believed that what Moishe experienced happened, or rather they didn't want to believe. This was also imminent in Niemoller´s poem, ¨I did not speak out, I was not a...¨ No one wanted to believe what the Nazis/Terrible Things were doing. However, as time went on the impending doom came. In conclusion, the theme that ties through The Terrible Things, Night, and First They Came For The Communists is the impending doom that no one wants to believe, until it happens to them.