The Holocaust: The Western Expansion

Strong people work hard for their families to keep them alive as they run into many difficult conflicts. The Holocaust was a dark and scary period of time. Many people risked their lives for their family, friends, and country. Mostly everyone worked hard together to fight the terrible conflicts and struggles of the war. Like the Holocaust, the Western Expansion had many different problems. One problem was starvation. There is a great amount of people in the world who are starving. These people try to fight through hunger by staying strong and using what they know to figure out different solutions to starvation. These people stay strong willed through many conflicts such as starvation and war. Because they stay so strong willed, they receive

As Papa was trying to save his daughter, he overcame a conflict to save his family, "Papa still carries baby Issac over his shoulder, and I walk close so that Papa's body will block me from the soldiers' view. But the soldiers are busy arguing with the woman, and they don't even look our way. I can hardly believe how risky this plan is. How brave Papa is. How lucky we are" (Roy 133). In this part of the story, Papa is sneaking Syvia past the guards so he can her to a safe underground cellar. He did this because he did not want Syvia to be taken away by the Nazis and be separated from the family. By doing this, Papa could have been caught and had his whole family taken away to a concentration camp, but being with his family is more important to him than anything else. He would definitely rather be with his loving family than be sadly without them. In this passage, Mary begins to experience something that will change our thoughts of her personality, "She said in a low voice, 'I don't know how it will be if it's poison. Just do the best you can with the girls. Because your pa will come back, you know. . . .You better go to bed. I'm going to sit up'" (Johnson 117). Mary is showing the narrator, by word of mouth, that she does not know if the mushroom is poisonous, but if it is, that the boy should take care of his sisters until pa returned home. This is significant because Mary is telling the narrator that she might die, although it may not seem like it. Mary would rather die than have the children starve. She is keeping them from harm and instead of letting them die which is very kind because she had only known the family for a couple of days. While faced with many challenges, Papa and Mary are still able to protect their families and save them from any harm that distress that comes upon them. They both risk their lives so that other people that they love can be happy and