Behind The Bedroom Wall Analysis

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The three sources Behind the Bedroom Wall, by Laura Williams, “Survivors of the Holocaust,” and “Last Letters of the Holocaust: 1941,” all have characters and people who realize that through catastrophic events, that family is very valuable in order to surpass discrimination. In “Behind the Bedroom Wall” the characters Korinna and her mom learn that they have to understand each other and cope with each other believes in order to get through this tough time. Korinna had to open her eyes to what is really happening in order to realize the true situation. For everyone this is a very emotional time for everyone because that nobody really knew what was happening or how to fix it, they were all just trying to fit into what they were supposed to …show more content…

In the reading, it says “Farewell, my dear ones! My beloved Mother, my good Father, you were the first ray of sunshine that warmed my life. I did not know how to preserve this warmth, I left without so much as casting a backward glance. I was too full of illusions about the future to be able to understand that I was abandoning a happiness that I would never recover” ("Last Letters from the Holocaust: 1941" 3). This shows that hard times that are about to come to her. She misses her family and just wishes that she could see them one more time, but knows that she can’t. This has to do with Behind the Bedroom Wall because that the mother is keeping two jews behind the wall and they are missing their family since they got separated in order to survive. Also, in Eugene Black’s story, this was a very emotional time for him because that he was split up from his family, and never saw them again. In the text, it says “The lorry was driven to a nearby brickyard, where the Jewish population was being forcibly gathered together. Eugene and his family were ordered into railway cattle trucks and from there transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Eugene was swiftly separated from his mother and sisters, then also from his father. After being completely shaved and then showered, he was given his number, 55546, and a striped uniform” (Eugene Black | Slave Labourer and Camp Survivor 2)This shows how quickly that he was separated from his family, and then never see them again. In this, it has to do with Behind the Bedroom wall because that they were separated from each other so quickly, as Korinna has to look into her heart to not be able to tell the authorities about her parents and the people that are living there. In conclusion, everyone who took part in this event was either

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