ACTIVITIES A Practice Task 1. EXPLORING THE POEM! Read the poem below the answer the questions that follow Holocaust by Barbara Sonek We played, we laughed we were loved We were ripped from the arms of our parents and thrown into the fire. We were nothing more than children. We had a future. We were going to be lawyers, rabbis. wives, teachers, mothers. We had dreams, then we had no hope We were taken away in the dead of night like cattle in cars, no air to breathe smothering, crying, starving, dying. Separated from the world to be no more. From the ashes, hear our plea. This atrocity to mankind cannot happen again. Remember us, for we were the children whose dreams and lives were stolen away. Guide Questions: 1. Who could be the speaker in the poem? 2. What form of injustices done to the speaker were presented in the poem? Enumerate them. 3. Who do you think was considered the "enemy” of the speaker in the pcem? 4. What emotion is pervasive in the poem? Why did you say this? 5. Why was the poem titled "Holocaust"?
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