Consider your understanding of Alice Through the Looking Glass. Also, read and consider the discussion posts and responses about the novel. Then, think about what makes this novel difficult to understand. Find places where there is tension or difficulty in the text. For this reflection paper, Identify three areas of difficulty/tension. Then, in two to three double-spaced paragraphs for each area, explain the difficulty/tension or discuss how it effects the text.

Read the excerpt from elie wiesel’s all rivers run to the sea. why were those trains allowed to roll unhindered into poland? why were the tracks leading to birkenau never bombed? i have put these questions to american presidents and generals and to high-ranking soviet officers. since moscow and washington knew what the killers were doing in the death camps, why was nothing done at least to slow down their “production”? that not a single allied military aircraft ever tried to destroy the rail lines converging on auschwitz remains an outrageous enigma to me. birkenau was “processing” ten thousand jews a day. stopping a single convoy for a single night—or even for just a few hours—would have prolonged so many lives. based on the paragraph, the author would most likely agree that it is best to avoid confrontation at all costs. people need to be proactive when they witness an injustice. countries should remain neutral to keep alliances strong. moscow and washington are to be blamed for the holocaust.

Based on the information in the passage, what conclusion can the reader make?

In the poem, collins compares his love to a pigeon on a generals head