Anne Frank Injustice

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Embodied deeply in our blood and bone, fear lies as a powerful instinct that drives people to push past the point of common human decency, and blinds them from seeing the line between impartiality and inequitably. This primal inclination of fear bears a child of a great social crime known as injustice. Injustice is the maltreatment or abuse of possessing authority, in which corrupt jurisdiction is used to lawfully harm the public, either physically or mentally. This practice of unprincipled power has unfortunately occurred throughout human history, from the Nazis and the Holocaust they orchestrated, to the United States, downgrading different races and religions as “inferior” to the common practice. Not only does this cruel cycle repeat …show more content…

This fascinating novel follows protagonist, Anne Frank, and the 25 months she spent hidden in the Secret Annex. Forced out of the world by the Nazis, Anne is forced to go to extreme measures to fight and survive the cruel society built upon the suffering of Jews and other minorities. Finding sanctuary in the Secret Annex, Anne is quietly sheltered away while the world around her falls defeated to the plague that is the Holocaust. A very strong description of this Nazi abuse is founded in Page 16 of her diary. “... the gaudy yellow star spoke for itself…” Anne writes. This small phrase symbolizes the laws that Hitler passed in which Jews were required to wear yellow stars as a form of mortification to tell to all who was the “culprit” of Germany’s suffering. This clear and obvious misuse of government influence upon the people is a branch of injustice acknowledged as blame. The reasoning behind this blame, in this case, is the fear of accepting defeat. After the German people were defeated in World War One, the European country was left in the ashes and aftermath of a horrendous bloodbath. Stuck within an economic and diplomatic dilemma, the German people turned desperate for any leader to rise. This leader was Adolf Hitler, who mercilessly chastised the Jewish population to get his rise to power. Using his radical ideas and his powerful speech skills, Hitler convinced the …show more content…

The poem is titled Let America be America Again and it follows the main perspective of many minorities and discriminated people through their arbitrary community. This poem sees the racist nation that America once was and explains that the American Dream is not a fairy tale promise of ease of life, but instead is a hollow mold of lies structured upon pyramids of exploitation and bigotry beliefs. It is due to the substandard life that Langston Hughes grows up in, that influences his writing along with the the harsh truths of being a black man in America. “I am the man who never got ahead” Hughes writes in Line 36 of his poem. This sentence from his piece symbolizes the systems of injustice established in the United States, with only “desirable” people able to succeed in life. This barbarous structure in life is the offspring of the fear of vulnerability. It is the pinnacles of the pyramids that feel this fear, as it haunts them to see themselves as weak in the eyes of the public. Through their use of violence and harm, they enforce their assertive roles time and time again, to infuse the supports below them with fear, so that they can continue to act as the skeleton behind society. By using a absolutely abominable classification system, those superior continue to reign and spread their injustice further and deeper. Through the use of injustice, simply one person can

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