How does this text deal with individuals and groups? Are the people acting alone and in competition with one another, or does the text help us imagine people working together?
In the story Terrible Things by Eve Bunting, there is a lesson of standing up for what you know is right. Every time the terrible things come, the animals look out for themselves and not the animals that are getting taken. The big rabbit even tells the little rabbit to, "Just mind your own business..." Every time a animal is taken, the others just say they were annoying and rude anyway, and turn the other way. This story is just and allegory of the Holocaust.
This text shows that every group is different and the terrible things don't like anything different from them, so they take them. The animals in this story are definitely acting alone and in competition with one another. Every time the terrible things ask for one characteristic everyone else says, "We don't have that" or, "I don't have this". And the animals never try to help each other, they just ignore the ones getting taken away. And just like in Eve Bunting's foreword, the animals ignored their cries for help.
The text most certainly does not lead us to imagine people working together. The animals are very selfish and don't care about anyone else but their species. It even says in the text that, "The rabbits and porcupines looked everywhere, except at each other." Showing that if one or the other got taken , the free animals would not lift a finger to help. And at the end of the story, all the animals were taken except the little rabbit because they did not work together.
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