In the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak "othering" is presented throughout the novel by the German people "othering" Jewish people. In the article "What is Othering?" it states that othering "involves attributing negative characteristics to people or groups that differentiate them from the perceived normative social group. " To connect, in the book, a Jewish person in hiding, named Max, has a dream involving him boxing Hitler. This is what the referee says about Max, "this piece of Jewish stench and filth.
Lockie Leonard Scumbuster, by Tim Winton, accurately reflects the life of an average adolescent boy. The main character, Lockie, is not exceptional in his experiences, as is reflected in the exploration of themes that commonly characterize teenage existence. He suffers love issues, finds it difficult to understand his parents, and develops a friendship with someone who is totally unlike himself. In realistically developing these themes, the author forces us to an inescapable conclusion: Lockie is a typical teenage boy.
Grenade is a book that was published in 2018 by Alan Gratz, is about the war in the Pacific, specifically the bloody battle of Okinawa. This book follows two boys named Ray and Hideki. Hideki is a boy on Okinawa island, and he goes to school at an unnamed university. When the war with America starts the whole school is drafted into the army, because after all this is the Okinawan island, so it’s their fight. Anyways, Hideki and all the other boys are given two grenades each, with instructions to use one grenade to kill as many Americans as possible, and the other to kill themselves.
At Plaszow he learns many lessons and how to survive. He finds his Uncle Moshe here and he tells him to never stand out or talk. Yanek finds out his parents did not make it to this camp, and most likely were killed. The conditions at plaszow were very dangerous and they were fed poorly. Amon Goeth the commandant of the camp would always kill people and made the Jews suffer, Yanek was told to avoid him.
“Meir Katz was moaning: Why don't they just shoot us now?” (Wiesel 103). This shows how the harsh conditions and punishment of the Nazi officers dehumanize the jewish prisoners in concentration camps. It is the process of dehumanization that made possible the evils of the Holocaust and makes possible the smaller evils that occur on a daily basis. The Nazi guards, as revealed in the Elie Wiesel memoir, Night, were able to victimize their prisoners because the process of dehumanization desensitized them to the evils they inflicted.
“Three veteran prisoners” were mentioned in the quote and they are the ones who are going to take over the work of the Germans. The textual evidence shows the tools were other stuff that was used to tattoo the prisoners. An examination of the quotes reveals that the veteran prisoners were ready to proceed with the work they needed to do, which was to tattoo numbers to the Jewish prisoners, which will be their name going forward in the future. In the story, they were given numbers as names, a form of discrimination. The quote shows how the SS officers checked to see if there were any missing inmates in the process of the lineup.
Darren Young was arrested on 06/05/17 for having possession of MDMA and various stolen goods. MDMA is an illegal stimulant drug that makes users feel good about themselves. MDMA is a tablet that lasts up to 3 - 6 hours. Young is known for his addiction to MDMA and other drugs like weed. Darren Young has been in and out of rehab for the last few years.
Throughout the novel Night and throughout the history of the holocaust, Nazis dehumanized Jewish prisoners with both language and actions. Nazis treated Jewish prisoners like animals; when they behaved well, they were rewarded with extra soup or bread and when they misbehaved, they were physically tortured or even killed. They were also referred to as numbers rather than names. This is shown when Elie Wiesel states, “I never felt anything except the lashes of the whip... Only the first really hurt,” (Wiesel 57).
The Nazis treated the Jewish inmates like they were farm animals,
The Nazis were determined to have their identity be stripped away from them, starting with the choice of clothes being worn, forced to wear prison uniforms. Next they were forced to shaved their heads and every hair on their body, losing the choice of appearance. Finally the Nazis gave each person a tattoo of a number
Another outcome of interactions between humans is how it can change someone’s very way of thinking. In the story Night by Elie Wiesel, as time went on he began to notice how barbaric the people were acting. To prove this, Wiesel begins to say, “So many crazed men, so much shouting, so much brutality”(Wiesel 37). This quote by Wiesel explains the animals the men have become from being in a concentration camp. The interactions with the Natzis’ and even with each other had caused them to become as they say “crazed men.”
Dehumanization and insults were commonplace within the camps, not only those in charge who took part, but it was other prisoners as well. At one point, even Elie refers to the people he’s running with as “filthy dogs” (85). On top of this, they are treated as a form of entertainment by the guards and the people of the town they passed through. Bread would be thrown in and the workers would watch as the prisoners fought each
My father swallowed my ration.”. In the camps prisoners were only given one meal a day, to last them all day. For the work the Jews had to endure, one meal a day of no good food, was not healthy for them at all. Thats why when the camps were liberated By Allied forces, none of the Jews wanted to get revange on the Nazi Regime. The Prisoners only wanted food, The text states, “ Our first act as Free Men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions.
Throughout the books Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, and Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, both of the authors have been giving the readers a constant reminder about the topic of othering. Whether the topic of othering was clear or hidden in the words, both Conrad and Achebe stress the fact that humans tend to alienate when they are faced with something different. How the authors introduced this topic came in various different ways, including how certain people were characterized, how symbolism was used, and how the book’s structure was composed. Throughout the books, different people were eventually introduced, but they were usually looked upon differently by the people of whom the main characters are a part of.
The art of tattooing evolved independently in various cultures around the world and served extremely diverse purposes. Tattoos have been used to signal social, political or religious groups, a form of self-expression, oppression, or even a fashion statement. In this essay I would like to explore how they have evolved in society as a way of repressing and liberating different cultures, and how the art of tattoo has become an enriching and artistic means of expression within our modern world. They can convey stigma, as in the branding of prisoners or the marginalized, as seen with the theories within “Ornament and Crime”, the number stamping of Nazi concentration camp victims, or slave owners branding marks. But can contrarily also be extraordinarily
