Question

Read the excerpt from Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea. No, let us go no further. Decency and custom forbid it. I said it earlier, when speaking of my grandfather: In Jewish tradition a man’s death belongs to him alone. Let the gas chambers remain closed to prying eyes, and to the imagination. We will never know all that happened behind those doors of steel. Read the text and study the images from Spiegelman’s Maus. Which theme is addressed in both excerpts? Inexperience can sometimes lead to misunderstanding. It’s important to follow tradition regardless of circumstance. Some truths are too difficult to fathom if one has not experienced them. There are times when one must be able to see in order to believe.

Answer 1

the answer is C. Some truths are too difficult to fathom if one has not experienced them. i just took the quiz :)

Answer 2

The theme addressed in both excerpts, especially from Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea, is that, Some truths are too difficult to fathom if one has not experienced them. Wiesel writes, 'We will never know all that happened behind those doors of steel.' He means that what did happen there was so terrible and hideous that the rest of us will never really grasp the suffering of those people even when someone tells us about it.