Themes and Theme Statements

Themes

Evidence I might use

Theme Statements

Death

Power

authority

Power can act as a poison

Power is what destroys countries not weakness

Death isn't merely a number but

Fear is the strongest form of power

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“‘Maybe you fools ate willing to lie here until you starve to death - but not me! … I’ve contacted one of the guards. It’ll cost a fortune, but he’s agreed to look the other way.’” (Spigelman, 127)

“‘If you want to chip in you can come with us’” (Spigelman, 126)

“had friends to keep them. And the friends kept them… until Avram’s money finished. Then they were reported.” (Spigelman, 127).

“the unlucky ones sleeping on the floor.” (Spigelman, 190).

“‘The mothers always told so : be careful! A Jew will catch you to a bag and eat you!.. so they taught to their children’” (Spigelman, 151).

“The Soviet dictator was furious. ‘Stalin had a tremendous blow up,’ recalled one top official, ‘losing his temper, banging his fists on the table and stamping his feet.’... ‘The balance has been destroyed’” (Sheinkin, 202).

“Wouldn’t the world be safer if a second major power also knew how to build atomic bombs? That way, neither country would use the bomb knowing they’d have the bomb used on them” (Sheinkin, 135).

“had a total of 65,00 nuclear bombs.” (Sheinkin, 235).

“Farming would collapse, and people all over the globe would starve to death. And that’s if only half of one percent of all the atomic bombs on earth were used.” (Sheinkin, 236).

Ideas

The destructive nature of power

Impact of War

Impact of racism