Endurance In Dr. Eva Olsson's Unlocking The Door

Endurance is the state of contributing to live or exist, typically in spite of an incident or in hard circumstances. During the mid 90’s it was difficult for people to survive in the society with its wants and need. People during this period were being bombardier by religious beliefs and then WWII happened, making matters worse. This period of survival was portrayed in the novel Unlocking The Doors by Dr. Eva Olsson. She was known as Ester Malek in the book, born in Szatmar in a high orthodox Hasidic family. Her father was very strict towards his households. The family was taught to pursue the religion and never to go against it. Ester Malek was also seized by Germans during the WWII where the Jews genocide happened. Those years were some of the worst years in her life. The book shows how Ester Malik survived through the religious opinions of her father and the genocide of WWII.

Ester Malek family believed in their religion above all. Ester’s father Haim Ytzong, was very strict towards his kids. Kids weren’t allowed to go outside for entertainment or to hang out with friends. They were never taught about any sexual connections with the opposite sex. As Ester’s Malik said, “it was my first time talking to an opposite sex “(Olsson 27). This shows that Ester was not allowed to talk to any men or maintain a boyfriend. Also, the only time she was able to do this was when her parents sent her out of their sight. On the other hand, Ester’s brother Lazar
Eva Olsson, Ester Malek was going trying to survive through the similar situations as well her parent’s beliefs. Survival is the state where people go through a difficult situation and end goal is to endure. The WWII period was hard for Jews to hold out, they were going through the biggest depression of their era. Towards the end of WWII, many Jews were killed, there wasn’t an actual count of dead bodies. Ester was one of the luckiest of ones to survive the