Blood is Thicker Personal Response: I think it was an interesting book to read. Like in the beginning of the book when Hakeem and his family move to Detroit because of his dad's cancer. I think it was a jerk move to be mean like Savon was to Hakeem cause he was in a time of need, Hakeem didn't move there because he wanted too. Also that Hakeem was so sad that he lost Darcy I thought it was gonna take him longer to find another girl, but as soon as he met Anika, Darcy was set in his past.
This book was very insightful into the lives of the people involved in the Holocaust. It showed that no matter how confident a person is about who they are, life is unpredictable, and people change. The Holocaust put many lives at risk while bringing others to an end. This piece was very effective in showing what the Holocaust was like, and what it took to survive. Elie Weisel, the writer of this book, gave the reader a personal account of his experiences as a Sightet Jew in the Holocaust.
Even though Dawid Sierakowiak’s and Primo Levi’s accounts of the Holocaust took place in different locations, both of their accounts contain striking similarities, such as their experiences with antagonistic individuals (apart from the Nazis), as well as their experiences with positive and influential individuals. Their encounters with these encouraging people ultimately helped in shaping their experiences during the Holocaust, and it can even be argued that the people who positively affected both Sierakowiak and Levi can be labeled as rescuers. Regardless of the actions of the antagonists, namely Sierakowiak’s father and the men who taunted Levi about his number, both of these men were able to form and maintain positive relationships with
What can a person do if their language is tainted with malevolent intentions towards others, how about after sixty millions of their own people are inhumanly slaughtered with little to no respect? Nothing can ease a person’s trauma and torment, attempting to explain an event of such horrific context is extremely for a survivor of said event. However, another problem arises, how one thoroughly explains an event that they desperately do not want to relive. Many Holocaust survivors, who are literary geniuses, use a variety of methods in order to express their opinions and experiences to the reader. Elie Wiesel’s use of repetition, Art Spiegelman’s use of a bizarre genre to create symbolism while explaining euphemisms, and many survivors opening up to the younger generation at Holocaust themed museums.
We are going to discuss the article, “At the Holocaust Museum,” by David Oliver Relin. This document is about the museum in Washington, DC that informs of the horrors Hitler and his Nazi party did to the Jews during World War II, killing more than 6 million and taking away their citizenship and rights. This fact about the Holocaust portrays objectivity through measurable data. A majority of informal articles are primarily objective over subjective; informing the reader and giving the reader facts and data than displaying or providing a point of view or emotions. Subjectivity is when the text or segments of the text are being based on or influenced by someone's personal feelings, tastes, or opinions; the author’s, characters, or other people’s.
By using such heavy emotions, both authors were able to articulate their experiences with the Holocaust and those around them. The two authors also successfully managed to capture an audience that appeals outside of the works timeframe. With an event as memorable as the Holocaust, it’s not difficult to focus plenty of attention on the event, but both authors managed to appeal to people who could not possibly have any real insight on the happenings of the Holocaust. The
Learn, Yolen encourages readers to have a deep understanding of the concept to help them wrap their heads around the inhumane event of the holocaust. As people become more and more intelligent and less ignorant, the world slowly becomes a better place. She grasps readers so that they completely understand what she is saying and how it relates to the topic. Last but least, respect. After readers read Yolen’s novel, readers learn to respect the “silent heroes” of the holocaust.
Ethan Saiewitz October 19, 2015 English 4: Holocaust Literature Ms. Beal Dehumanization and Poetic Language When one word or image is unable to describe the indescribable events of the Holocaust, many authors turn to metaphors, similes, and other figurative language to draw comparisons between the horrific acts and something readers might be familiar with. In Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi uses figurative language to convey how the Nazis dehumanized the prisoners and to make the traumatic experiences more relatable to the reader. Levi often draws comparisons between the prisoners of Auschwitz and animals. For example, in describing a fellow prisoner, Levi states: “He is Null Achtzehn. He is not called anything except that, Zero Eighteen, the last three figures of his entry number; as if everyone was aware that only a man is worthy of a name, and that Null Achtzehn is no longer a man.
Let this essay be a reminder to the world that totalitarian ideologies will bring forth catastrophe just as National Socialism did in Nazi Germany. The memoirs of Rudolf Hoss, Death Dealer, is one of the most detailed accounts of a man who was the Commandant of Auschwitz, and is known as one of the greatest mass murderers in history. In the forward Primo Levi wrote to Death Dealer, he stated that even though this autobiography is filled with evil and has no literary quality, it’s one of the most instructive books ever published because it describes a human life exemplary in its way (Hoss, 3). In this essay, I will argue that Primo Levi thought Death Dealer is one of the most instructive books because it seeks to explain how ordinary men
He informs them of what was going on in the holocaust, while persuading them to change their mindsets to help those who are being treated like animals and being slaughtered or tortured for their satisfaction. To tell people not to just stand by while people get treated unfairly due to race or anything for that matter and stand up to the injustices that people were facing. “Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end.
The Holocaust lasted for four years, a mass genocide executed by Nazi Germany, with the goal to eradicate all Jews. Six million Jews were successfully murdered, and hardly anyone lifted a finger to help the thousands killed daily. Elie Wiesel was right in saying that 'Being a neutral bystander helps those who are evil; that remaining silent encourages even more evil to happen '. This is true, since evil always comes back and causes so many people so much pain.
The Holocaust began many tragedies, many people dying and going through pain, being beaten and hung because they were jews. The Peace Resistance was to help many people get back to their old ways and connect back with their families if they had survived. Many jews were blamed for many things that were not true, they were treated the way there because non-jews believed Hitler and others who thought jews were not the perfect
During the Holocaust, a great number of brave individuals wondered whether they should have reacted to the Nazi forces through passive or violent acts of resistance. Any form of resistance was vital for even the slightest possibility of survival for the jews. In “Resistance During the Holocaust”, “The Diary of Anne Frank”, and “Violins of Hope,” it gave real examples of Jewish people who chose to arm themselves and fight the Nazis head on or Jews who opted for passivity in order to hide their loved ones. Nevertheless, the main goal of these methods for resistance was to defy the enemy at hand that was the Nazi party. Therefore, people can best respond to conflict by active resistance in order to avoid late shame and humiliation, escape the
Historiography of the Holocaust Historiography essentially is “the history of history”. It looks into what historians have said about a given historically relevant event or topic, how their interpretations have changed over time and where, what and why are the disagreements between the historians. This paper tries to look into these aspects for the topic the Holocaust and explain how knowledge of the historiography of any given event is important in understanding the event itself. The Intentionalist historians like Lucy Dawidowicz see Hitler as a strong leader believe that the Holocaust was something that Hitler had planned for years Structuralist perspective Keywords Holocaust; Hitler; Jews; Intentionalism; Structuralism; Revisionism; Holocaust Denial THE HOLOCAUST
This is because Levi wanted the audience to fully understand what it feels like to be in a concentration camp and through reading the novel, experience themselves the struggles that the prisoners went through. Levi’s description of the concentration camp is so vivid and thus is jolting to the reader since Auschwitz is a real place you can visit today “The stories he will tell of the Lager challenge this claim of freedom. He labels the camp differently writing, “This is hell. Today, in our times, hell must be like this.” (22) “ Extremely Loud Foer created a fictional account to showcase the aftermath of a tragedy while Levi used
