Big Things Dbq Analysis

How does the spiritual triumph? The spirit triumphs by having a great achievement being successful. During World War II, Jews throughout Europe were sent to extermination or concentration camps, were they either worked hard labor or where exterminated (killed). This mass murderer is known as the Holocaust. Etty Hillesum, was a bright young woman who often wrote about “Big Things”, that enable the persons spirit to triumph through that rough period in there life’s. But what were these “Big Things”? During the Holocaust Love, Laughter, and Nature where the ways human spirits were able to triumph. Love is the intense feeling of deep affection that helps people spirts to endure. In the book Yellow Star, a little girl named Syvia is imprisoned in a ghetto in Lodz with her family. She is 1 out of 12 children to survive the Lodz ghetto because of her family sacrificing everything to keep her alive and safe, in both body and spirit(Doc B). For example, “Mother does not eat her meal/ she gives it to me instead/ She does not say I love you in hugs And kisses/ but her love fills my plate/ And I gobble it up” (Doc A). Later on Syvia risks her life for the love of her sister Dora my seeking outside to bring

In Yellow star, Syvia is the one who gets food from her parents, but when she confusedly asks if she pooped out of her mother’s belly button, she gives them a even greater gift. She makes them laugh (Doc.A). In the Book Thief, a girl named Liesel gives a similar gift to Jewish Man named Max who’s hiding from the Nazi in the basement of these German individuals who let him inside the comforts of their home. One day Liesel a little girl brings down buckets of snow to the basement which her, Max, and her parents use to build a snowman and paly snowball fights, This makes all of them burst into laughter (Doc.C) Through Laughter Sylvia’s family and Max forget all about the hardships and suffering in the