Hate is My Neighbor by Bill Wassmuth and Tom Alibrandi is a nonfiction book that showed me that bigots have been out there for a long time, even in my own backyard. The Book took place in Coeur D'alene Idaho, a town about 7 hours from Boise. It gave us an in depth look on how the Aryan Nations harassed the people of the small town in the 1970’s. I will further explain what I felt were three important artifacts from the book that help us understand the situation. The three artifacts I chose will represent how underestimated the Aryan Nations were, how full of hate they were, and how violent they are. The artifacts I chose were a little boy transforming into a giant, a burning cross, and a bomb.
The Aryan Nations were a serious organization
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They would violently take it out on innocent people. I think their violence is possibly what they were known best for, “The serenity of dusk was shattered by an ear-splitting explosion at the canary yellow cinder block Classic Auto Restoration building on Government Way” (Wassmuth Alibrandi 149). To represent chapters 20-21 I chose a bomb because the Aryan Nations seemed to use them a lot. Bombs are very destructive and the opposite of love. The quote above was truly their biggest and most destructive violent situation. The Aryan’s had blown up an auto restoration building that had been their for a very long time and was a big part of the neighborhood. This I felt was a major part that consisted of violence because the Aryan Nations were attacking ordinary people.
I went into detail on three artifacts I felt represented the book Hate is my Neighbor. I felt that the boy turning into a giant was a good depiction of how underestimated the Aryan Nations were. The second image I chose was the burning cross, that I felt was the most touching image for me because the cross it showed that they hated everyone who tried to stop them. The final image was the bomb, a bomb is something very detrimental and it showed how violent they