Human Beings Are Capable of Both Great Good and Great Evil
Human Beings are Capable of Great Good & Great Evil
Human beings are capable of both great good and great evil. Many examples of this expression are initiated in Morris Gleitzman’s novel ‘Once’ set in Poland during the time know as ‘the holocaust’. The novel displays acts of both great good and great evil, preformed by the Nazi Germans, and the main character; Jewish Felix. Great good is demonstrated in Felix’s actions, but their greatness swallowed by the outside worlds evil.
‘They’re lying on the lawn next to the chickens, a man and a woman. The man is in pyjamas and the woman is wearing a night dress. They’re both in the same twisted positions as the chickens, and both lying in pools of their own blood.’ Felix, the main character is a young Jewish boy, who escaped from an orphanage, to find his mother and father. At this point in the novel, Felix has come across a house fire; a deed of pure evil has been committed against a Jewish/German family, the unspeakable act preformed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi German army corp. A brutal persecution has been presented on the family, who of which appeal as kind natured people. As Felix finds an unconscious daughter of the late family, he executes a brave proceed, risking his own life for this young girl- ‘I haul the unconscious girl up onto my back, and stagger through the smoke and sparks.’ Now not only does this young boy have himself to care for, to protect, to feed, and keep alive, but also a young girl, who has already seen too much.
Great evil was surrounding the lives of many during the holocaust. The twitch of a trigger ending the life’s of hundreds of thousands of Jews. ‘The cobblestones hurt my face. The gunshots hurt my ears. I start crying. I don’t know what to do. I haven’t got any more stories.’ As Felix has reached the city after being captured by the Nazi officers, His beloved friend Zelda, who he saved from a house fire, got captured by Nazi Germans with, walked for days in
Human beings are capable of both great good and great evil. Many examples of this expression are initiated in Morris Gleitzman’s novel ‘Once’ set in Poland during the time know as ‘the holocaust’. The novel displays acts of both great good and great evil, preformed by the Nazi Germans, and the main character; Jewish Felix. Great good is demonstrated in Felix’s actions, but their greatness swallowed by the outside worlds evil.
‘They’re lying on the lawn next to the chickens, a man and a woman. The man is in pyjamas and the woman is wearing a night dress. They’re both in the same twisted positions as the chickens, and both lying in pools of their own blood.’ Felix, the main character is a young Jewish boy, who escaped from an orphanage, to find his mother and father. At this point in the novel, Felix has come across a house fire; a deed of pure evil has been committed against a Jewish/German family, the unspeakable act preformed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi German army corp. A brutal persecution has been presented on the family, who of which appeal as kind natured people. As Felix finds an unconscious daughter of the late family, he executes a brave proceed, risking his own life for this young girl- ‘I haul the unconscious girl up onto my back, and stagger through the smoke and sparks.’ Now not only does this young boy have himself to care for, to protect, to feed, and keep alive, but also a young girl, who has already seen too much.
Great evil was surrounding the lives of many during the holocaust. The twitch of a trigger ending the life’s of hundreds of thousands of Jews. ‘The cobblestones hurt my face. The gunshots hurt my ears. I start crying. I don’t know what to do. I haven’t got any more stories.’ As Felix has reached the city after being captured by the Nazi officers, His beloved friend Zelda, who he saved from a house fire, got captured by Nazi Germans with, walked for days in