ipl-logo

The Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boom Analysis

1207 Words5 Pages

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”- Corrie Ten Boom. In the touching true story, The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom proves her faith and passion for God and fulfills these words to their fullest. During the time of World War II, Corrie took it upon herself to shelter and protect Jews, despite the intense risks. After a while, the Nazis discovered and shut down her operation, sending her, and everyone involved, to jail. Following jail, the family Corrie had remaining traveled with her to a concentration camp, where they spent a significant portion of time. After much pain and longing, Corrie finally gained her much desired freedom. When she arrived home however, she felt empty inside. Without her beloved sister Betsie, …show more content…

Preceding the tragedy of her jailing, Corrie worked with the underground, hiding and protecting Jews from the controlling, and overpowering Nazi soldiers that roamed the streets of Holland. After her release she attempted this work again. However instead of feeling courageous and protected by God during the process, she felt nervous and uneasy, with sweat pouring down her face like a thousand raindrops. Soon after, Corrie realized God no longer required her assistance in that mission. Instead she felt his strong calling to create a safe haven for previous war victims. While in camp, Betsie experienced many visions about a house for these victims. Detailing every word, she described what an extravagant place it would appear and the work they would do together to help people. When Corrie came to see the house a kindly old friend had offered her, it bewildered Corrie beyond extent at what she observed. Tall windows, inlaid wood floors, a grand gallery along the central hall, and bas-relief statues lining the walls, specific details all exactly as Betsie had previously described. Everything Corrie needed to carry out Betsie’s envisioned mission fell into place after she found the ideal building. Corrie trusted the future of the business, which she could not foresee, to the God she knew and trusted with all her

Show More
Related
559 Words | 3 Pages

The introduction to Irene Gut Opdyke’s experiences before and during World War II left me speechless. It seems impossible to me that she experienced so much pain and suffering in a few short years. The observations, emotions, and reactions to Irene’s marvelous writing in part one of In My Hands have already begun to change how I view kindness and sacrifice. In My Hands begins with Irene’s harrowing tale of her curiosity almost leading to her drowning in the river near her house.

Read More
1543 Words | 7 Pages

Jeannette’s family never had enough money to buy themselves a decent house, so they lived out of rugged shacks, old abandoned buildings, and even out in the desert without any form of shelter. The author would describe each new house that her family moved into in such a way that it would persuade the reader to have such strong feelings of hatred towards Jeannette’s mother and father. Neither Mr. Walls, nor Mrs. Walls could keep a job for any decent amount of time, so after living in a house for a little, the family would get behind on the payments and have to pack their things and move on to a new place. The most memorable example of these terrible houses is the house that the family bought in Welch West Virginia. On page 153, “We called the kitchen the loose-juice room, because on the rare occasion that we had paid the electricity bill and had power, we’d get a wicked electric shock if we touched any damp or metallic surface in the room.”

Read More
276 Words | 2 Pages

Also, it was rather uncommon that a jew survived the mass genocide known as the Holocaust, let alone tell their story. Marion Blumenthal-Lazan has done both of these. Thousands of people know of her story, and shall it be known that prejudice and discrimination are dangerous inhumane acts.

Read More
969 Words | 4 Pages

She taught the world that even though Nazis caused pain and suffering to her family, her love for God has allowed her to forgive those who caused the deaths of her father, sister, brother, and nephew. Corrie states, "When Jesus Christ tells us to forgive our enemies, He gives us the power He demands of us. "(“Her Story | Corrie ten Boom Online Archive”). Corrie also wrote an autobiography called, “The Hiding Place”, where she writes about her family enduring the hardships sent their way.

Read More
893 Words | 4 Pages

The night before their planned departure, Charity went out onto the front porch to smoke her grandmother‘s pipe, which she had grown quite accustomed to. She sat out there with Mrs. Finley and had a long conversation, going so far as to invite her to travel with them, but Mrs. Finley said that her place was there, where her life

Read More
424 Words | 2 Pages

”[125] Sophie was very brave and would be willing to do anything for the people she cared about no matter what people would think about it. For Sophie being worried, insecure, and being brave have all lead her to learn a life lesson

Read More
1546 Words | 7 Pages

Pauline wouldn’t let anything stop her, not near death experiences, not a sentence to execution, not anything. Pauline Cushman focused on the task at hand and put aside any of her fears and doubts. Pauline Cushman is a prevalent U.S. figure due to the courageous atmosphere she supplied. Not only is she famous for her achievements, but more importantly for her character traits. Without a doubt, everyone can gain knowledge about courage

Read More
819 Words | 4 Pages

History is told by the survivors. Throughout the past few decades, Holocaust survivors have emerged to tell their stories. In Night, Elie Wiesel shares the honest details of his life in the concentration camps. In his memoir, Wiesel does not hesitate to narrate every raw emotion he experienced. He recounts every question that is important to young Eliezer, specifically his doubts of a benevolent God.

Read More
940 Words | 4 Pages

Ms. Larson took Dorothy to the women’s boardinghouse where she lived. Her safe haven was the key to Dorothy’s

Read More
1568 Words | 7 Pages

2015 Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping sets out to define home and the role of women in it through the practices of housekeeping. Through a series of polarizations (fixity – transience, society – nature, dividing – merging, outdoor – indoor, patriarchy – matriarchy) taken up by the characters Robinson manages to show how different notions of housekeeping correspond to different definitions of home and different female subjectivities. Housekeeping in its traditional sense is related to patriarchal notions, namely that of women’s confinement in the private sphere and that of the house’s condition as a sign of women’s character. In her essay, Paula Geyh views the house as the physical dimension of societal patriarchal organization (107); potential

Read More
1230 Words | 5 Pages

As the time went by inside the camps, many wondered if it would be better to just give up, give up and forget all the misery they have gone through. To just let go and fall in the arms of god. However, for some that was not the case, they fought until they no longer had a sense of what they were doing and if it was the right thing to do. They had hope, hope that made them feel as if this was not real, that it would all pass soon. For example, Elie Wiesel said ”I pinched myself: Was I still alive?

Read More
628 Words | 3 Pages

The Shack Jennifer Narciso College of Saint Elizabeth’s   Table of Contents The Shack introduction Abstract The home The Campground The search

Read More
708 Words | 3 Pages

“By 1945 I had lied, stolen, cheated, deceived, and even killed,” Marion told the audience assembled Rackham Auditorium for the seventh Wallenberg Lecture in October 1996. Marion even killed a policeman “I felt I had no choice, but to shoot him.” She kidnapped children to save them from being killed by the Germans. Many people knew what Marion was doing and many helped her save people and children by not telling what she was doing. She took long bike rides up North up north to provide food for the Jews.

Read More
787 Words | 4 Pages

Have you ever considered what it would be like to hide for your life? Anne Frank was a young girl during WWII who had to leave everything she knew and loved to go into hiding. Anne recorded everything (in depth) about what happened when she was in hiding in a secret annex with other people. Throughout this book, god and evil was an outstanding theme that arose in different ways. Good and evil in society as a whole during WWII, good and evil within the eight people in hiding, good and evil in Anne’s character, and my reaction to “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are really good at heart,” are four topics that will be covered in this essay.

Read More
517 Words | 3 Pages

Losing faith is like clearing off a foggy windshield. The true pain and suffering of the world are revealed. During the Holocaust, the SS would often force prisoners to witness the deaths of fellow prisoners, to scare them into obeying the SS and to show the prisoners what would happen to them if they did not follow orders. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel uses symbolism and metaphors to show the theme that suffering will weaken religious faith.

Read More

More about The Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boom Analysis

Related Topics

Open Document