In the article “Is This You?” by Kristen Lewis and Carolyn Gregoire, it proves to us many different relationships that technology and stress have. Towards the end where it was saying meditation is a good way to get rid of some stress. It had also snuck in how it is good to have face to face contact with family and friends instead of through a screen. “It’s also important to get some face-to-face time with friends and family.…
This was during the period of 1943-45 – towards the end of Second World War II. This book focuses on how unacceptable the situation was in the concentration camps and moreover, gives you a clear idea of how the Germans dehumanized the Jews. In just over a 100 pages, Elie summarizes the effect Holocaust had on Elie and his fellow Jews. He was extremely personal and really effective when it comes to how he conveyed the message he wanted to share. He wanted all of us to realize that something so cruel and inhumane equivalent to the Holocaust once existed in the world, so that people do not repeat it again in the future. Understanding what humans did wrong in the past could help humans not to repeat the same mistake again in the future and that the main purpose for Elie Wiesel to write this book.…
Maya Angelou once said, “Freedom is never free.” This is true because a person always has to pay some sort of price in order to be free, whether in a literal sense or not. In the book Among the Hidden, by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Luke Garner is an illegal third child in a place where overpopulation forces the government to make unfair laws. Each family is allowed to have two children, so Luke envies his older brothers and cannot live his life the way he wants to. This is similar to in “Two Sisters, Two Americas,” by Brooke Ross, which tells the reader about an illegal immigrant named Veronica Saravia. Veronica came to the United States with her parents illegally when she was 4 years old. Her sister, Diana, was born in the United States. Diana…
Dehumanization is to deprive of human qualities such as individuality, compassion, or civility. In this book set in World War II, it is shown to us how Jews were dehumanized by Nazis into a little more than “things”. Graphic images are drawn into our head as a young Elie Wiesel retells what he saw.…
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak deals with the horrors of the Kristallnacht period, also known as the “Night of Broken Glass.” This event escalated rapidly and eventually lead up to the Holocaust. This is an effective reminder of the impact of Nazi atrocities on everyday life Thirty thousand German Jews were thrown into concentration camps, and many more were murdered. The book focuses its attention on the fascist government's attempts to destroy the culture. Defending culture is the The Book Thief’s main theme.…
Death compares the situation of the German civilians cowering in a bomb shelter with the certain death of the Jews trapped in Nazi gas chambers. Death's thoughts bring up the notion of joint responsibility for Hitler's crimes, and Death wonders how guilty these people are for the ongoing Holocaust. While they are all citizens of a nation in the process of killing millions of innocent people, some, like Rosa and Hans, quietly defy the Nazis by hiding a Jew, while others are vulnerable children who cannot possibly be held accountable for crimes planned before they were even born.…
The tragedy we know today as the Holocaust has set the mark for horrific events that followed, and to come. This catastrophe is one of the greatest examples of dehumanization, and Elie Wiesel offers his first hand account of the disaster to educate people on what took place during this time. Wiesel shares with his audience the brutality, and hatefulness of the Nazis and their followers. He presents his readers with multiple instances of people being stripped of their rights, and humanity. In correlation with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a number of rights have been broken or cease to exist.…
The Holocaust was a horrific time, dating from 1933 to 1945, in our history as human beings. The descriptions and facts in this essay may make you question if we as people are even human to begin with. Such evilness is portrayed in the time of the Holocaust by the soldiers of what is called the Nazi army. The Nazi army was led by a very cruel and evil man named Adolf Hitler, a said spawn of the devil himself. The era of the Holocaust was a time span in which many people considered “a time of Hell.”…
The desire for power, fear, and self-preservation can cause people to change in ways one could not imagine. In the story, Night by Elie Wiesel, and Gerda Weissman Klein’s All But My Life, the authors share their tragic experiences from their times in Nazi concentration camps. In Addition, Klein’s All But My Life shows her experience in many different concentration camps for three years and how differently female inmates were treated than male. In Wiesel’s Night, he discusses his experience of being sent to Auschwitz along with his father for a year and how the tragedies he endured transformed his character. In Addition, Klein’s All But My Life shows her experience in many different concentration camps for three years and how differently female…
He is attempting to explain genocide through how it evolved from hatred. He believes there is no better example of this than the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich and the end result being the Holocaust. Specifically, he explores how the Germans who were murdering the jews feelt like they were acting in their own defense against potential victimizers. He argues that the elusive enemies, in the Germans case, were the jews, especially when the people they kill are not seen as individuals but as what they represent. In their quest for perfection, the urge to “cleanse” society of all abnormality, ultimately turned into destruction.…
"The Reader", by Bernhard Schlink is set in postwar Germany and tells the story of fifteen-year-old Michael Berg and his affair with a woman named Hanna, who was twice his age. After some time, she disappears. When Michael next sees Hanna, he is a young law student and she is on trial for her work in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Their feelings of guilt and shame lead to Hanna's tragic death near the end of the story. Bernhard Schlink is trying to portray these two emotions in his book as things that can destroy one's life, and possibly the life of those around us. Examples of them can be found throughout the whole book. One of the first major examples is the shame that many adults, including Michael's father, felt because of their tolerance and acceptance of the Nazi regime. The second is Michael's feelings of guilt for "betraying" Hanna by not acknowledging her at the pool. The third example is the guilt that Michael feels for comparing his wife to Hanna. The fourth is Michael's shame for having been in love with Hanna. The fifth, and possibly the most tragic example in the book is Hanna's own shame of being illiterate.…
The economic crises had naturally been their ways of conquering and plundering. It is widely believed that the Jewish bankers used modern mechanism of finance and targeted various forms of speculation markets to boom the economy, centralizing the greatest scale of funds. It is true that an increasing number of people have supported this idea. At this point, we do not consider the responsibility the Jewish financial group should take during the international inflation, and instead, the only point the public can confirm is that the huge gap between the rich and poor had significantly formed in the crisis. This kind of considerable difference would inevitably lead to the tensions between different social classes. In addition, the enmity the German people had to Jewish would be negatively taken advantage of by some madmen in the future wars. Thus, Hitler had the reason to hate the Jewish people. However, during the Second World War, most of killed Jews were the middle class, and only a few of them were belong to the superior class. It is unfair for most of the Jews suffered all those torments, because in fact they did not any wrong thing as a German. From this point, Hitler actually persecuted many innocent Jews through gathering them in gas chamber, giving them little food, putting them in the crowded room,etc. The Nazi killed Jewish in an extremely inhuman way. The comic book was writing by a Jewish Art Spiegelman whose father was suffered the Concentration Camp and finally survived in the Second World War. Through this issue of , it is obviously not only the Jewish people who suffered the concentration camp have mentally shadow but also their children who did not have the memory about the Second World War were influenced by them through their habits in daily lives. The…
religion discrimination. This is conveyed through the use of historical events, the story takes place in the early 1940’s, in a Nazi Germany. The novel is written through the perspective of Bruno, a nine year old boy whose father is a Commandment as a part of the Nazis. Throughout the book Bruno loses much of his childhood innocence and begins to question the goings on and discrimination around him. This message is provocative because many societies still discriminate against different religions. It challenges me to think about how in New Zealand our society may not be perfect without any religion discrimination, but in comparison we are at peace. If I was in the same situation as Bruno, I think I would be more questioning of my father and what was going on all around me. The main techniques used to convey this idea to good effect in this text were characterization, the use of contrast and language features. I believe this idea reminds the reader that we are very privileged in our society to not be going through such horrors.…
Of all the atrocities that have taken place throughout the world the time of the holocaust stands out as being the darkest page in human history. The question then must be asked: What kind of people could have participated in the absolute barbarism of this time period? Those people involved in perpetrating the holocaust witnessed and participated firsthand in every aspect of this horrific time. From helping to amass the staggering number of deaths, to creating the horrific idea of concentration camps, and showing an absolute disregard for human decency, those of the Nazi party will go down in history as the greatest villains to ever walk the earth. And the Sun Still Dared to Shine, by Peter Scheponik, introduces the reader to how truly inhuman…
In the novel Sophie’s Choice, William Styron suggests that the burden of guilt can make one’s life vastly difficult, seeming almost impossible to conquer the situation, but teaches a life lesson if the right path is chosen. The Holocaust becomes an incredible personal drama with guilt used as a major theme, in the middle of a massive catastrophe, in William Styron's Sophie's Choice, a big and questioning novel with first-person elements and a fearless determination to explore a particular human dimension of a historical nightmare.…