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After reading The Sunflower Book, Mr. Simon Wiesenthal asks his readers to help him decide, should he forgives Karl who is the SS man or not. Because Mr. Simon Wiesenthal did not forgive Karl, but just walked out of the room. From my opinion, maybe the dead Soviet Soldier man was forced to be a soldier, If Karl knows his terrible mistakes and apologized as for his last breath of being alive, Also Mr. Wiesenthal is one of the holocaust survivors, so Mr. Wiesenthal would want to live his life as normal and happy as possible without any negatively involved. I believed forgiving is not what everybody can do, but instead you have to earn it. During the war, they need a lot of soldiers to fight the wars. And there is a chance that most of the soldiers were forced to join the army. In the book does not say anything involved this, but in my America, a boy that is 18 years old are eligible to join the army or have to if we have a war and they are needing more soldiers. So maybe the SS have no choice but do what the commander said. For example, “He went out of his way to visit Karl's mother, but refrained from telling her the truth about the crimes her son committed while he served in the SS, if only to help her preserve her image of a son she remembered as a good boy” (Bejski 117). This reason, Mr. Wiesenthal …show more content…

But now since the war is over, and he survived the holocaust. This for sure that he would want to live his life as happy without any revenge... “he had no desire for revenge toward the person who had injured him and people so cruelly nor did he feel any satisfaction about the circumstances” (Bejski 117). Even though he does not give his forgive to SS man, but he did not have hatred toward the dead man but he still indecisive. I think he just wants to enjoy his life as possible that is why he asks his reader to help him make a

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