1 A main idea in The Story of Blima: A Holocaust Survivor is
a. the Nazis were successful in destroying the Jewish people.
b. Blima's ordeals/sufferings have given her a deep appreciation for her family and Jewish
traditions.
c. all the German people were, without exception, hostile/mean to the Jews.
d. Holocaust survivors tried to live in the past as a way of escaping ugly post-war truths.

bc

explanation:

because it crosses through the circle twice

hello,

your answer is a) the metaphor suggests that the poetic themes are serious and dark.

collins is comparing the poem to a dark room. he is suggesting that the poems theme is serious and wants you to understand it. you don't need to understand the poet in order to understand the poem. you also don't need to move around while reading it. he is simply saying the poem has a dark and serious theme.

- i.a -

in night, why are wiesel and his father evacuated from the auschwitz concentration camp? a massive escape makes the nazis question the security of auschwitz. they are assigned to work as laborers in a factory at another camp, buna. hitler has ordered that all remaining jews be relocated within german borders. the german army needs the camp guards to go to the battle front for a last-chance defense.