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. mc018-1.jpg 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.

1. find at least 9 adjectives from this opening passage used to describe the setting of the story- "to build a fire" setting: day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. it was a steep bank, and he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. it was nine o'clock. there was no sun nor hint of sun, through there was not a cloud in the sky. it was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun. this fact did not worry the man. he was used to the lack of sun. it had been days since he had seen the sun, and he knew that a few more days must pass before that cheerful orb, due south, would just peep above the sky-line and dip immediately from view.