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The book Exodus starts with two long-lost friends reuniting at Cyprus of 1946. These two friends are Mark Parker and Kitty Fremont. Kitty Fremont is a nurse, and Mark Parker is a foreign correspondent. Ari is creates a plan to breakout three hundred Jewish children from a concentration camp called Caraolos. He intends to put them on a ship called the Exodus in order to help the two hundred thousand desperate people in Europe. The stories of the refugees surviving the holocaust affect Kitty in a way. Kitty decides to be a part of Ari’s plan when she meets a girl named Karen that she instantly cares for very deeply. When Ari and the children escape, they board Exodus. The exodus was wired with explosives, so if the British attack the boat they will blow it up. The British and Exodus have a long standoff eventually ending in which the Exodus is allowed to sail to Palestine where Jews are welcomed. A job opportunity is given to Kitty and she accepts having a plan of bringing Karen to America. Karen’s father, Johann Clement, if found after being separated from her for many years. He is insane from Survivor guilt. Ari’s uncle and one of the children are …show more content…
captured and sentenced to death. In an attempt to break them out, Ari and many other men create a plan and break them out. During the jailbreak, Ari’s uncle is shot in the stomach and dies, and Ari is shot in the leg and fractures his leg. Kitty was planning to leave to the Americas with Karen, but Ari being injured stopped her from going. A war breaks out between the Arabs and the Jews. Israel and the Jews declared independence, and the people of Israel win most of the battles against the unorganized Arabs. The Jews win the war. Ari’s father dies and is buried next to his brother. Kitty is waiting for Karen so they can departure to the Americas. While she is waiting with Ari’s family word comes to Ari that Karen has died. Ari and most of the Jews were shaken by the war. The setting of Exodus is Cyprus, an island in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. The refugee camp, Caraolos, is located on Cyprus, and is where the three hundred Jewish children escaped and had a standoff with the British. Since Cyprus was an island the only two ways to get on the island was boat and plane. The escape had to be done with a boat, which made it harder on the Mossad Aliyah Bet to save the children. After the standoff, the boat Exodus would travel to Palestine. Palestine was important because it is where the Jews were welcomed and not put into a refugee camps. In Palestine, the Jews fought to take back what was truly theirs. Palestine was very important to the Jews and many of the Jews have dreamed of coming to Palestine. Many years before this novel, World War II takes place.
Most of the novel revolves around World War II and the aftermath of the war. Most of the Jew population was murdered by the Nazis, this event is known as the Holocaust. There were many attempts to get Jews out of camps and to Palestine because they are safe in Palestine, but many were unsuccessful. Most of the world in 1946 despised the Jews. Most of the Jews did not know why such things would happen to them and thought that God was punishing them. World War II is very significant in the book Exodus because many of the children have not had a life outside of concentration camps and refugee camps. The war changed every Jew’s life because many of them lost family members and friends. This novel tells a story of what life would be like after the war for the
world. I personally liked this book because Leon creates characters that are very easy to begin to make a connection with them. He creates a good atmosphere by creating a unique love between Kitty and Ari. I would definitely recommend this to a friend because it is a good book and it tells you a lot of what life after the war was like. At first when you start reading the book, it is a little bit boring, but after twenty pages you begin to become hooked and just want to read more.
The main character in this story is a Jewish girl named Alicia. When the book starts she is ten years old, she lives in the Polish town of Buczacz with her four brothers, Moshe, Zachary, Bunio, and Herzl, and her mother and father. The Holocaust experience began subtly at first when the Russians began to occupy Buczacz. When her brother Moshe was killed at a “ Boys School” in Russia and her father was gathered up by German authorities, the reality of the whole situation quickly became very real. Her father was taken away shortly after the Russians had moved out and the Germans began to occupy Buczacz.
In conclusion the Holocaust was a horrible thing. It created a world war that could only be stopped by someone winning. The Jews and other prisoners got caught in the crossfire of this world war. The Jewish people and many other prisoners that were in the camps face starvation, selection, transport, and many other
In the book, the German soldiers went out of their way to make the Jews suffer. Why did the Solidiers do it? To begain the Soldiers didnt start off as this way ,but faced with German rule and wanting to portect themself they abandoned
The Holocaust had millions of jews killed. In Night, Elie Wiesel is talking about a story of Him, and his father to survive the concentration camps in WWII, and Elie was able to escape the camp. The Holocaust caused dehumanization by, fighting for food, Shaved heads (identity), and Lost Faith.
The holocaust was a time the Jewish community faced a very troubling era. In the book "Night", a man named Elie Wiesel, was the author and a survivor of this tragic incident. He explained throughout the book about his life as a child going through the holocaust. Although he survived that terrible time, he lost the ones closest to him such as his family. The Nazis took away the humanity of the inmates in the concentration camps, how the inmates maintain their humanity, and how the inmates used religion as a metaphor for humanity. Even though Elie survived what he went through he would never be the same.
9Then Moses said to Aaron, "Say to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, 'Come near before the LORD, for he has heard your grumbling. '" 10And as soon as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud. 11And the LORD said to Moses, 12"I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, 'At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the LORD your God. '”13In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning dew lay around the camp. 14And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness
The beginning started out as irena sendler walked around the Ghetto and tried to understand and comprehend everything. She needed to observe what she had to do. She was very nervous, but she knew what she had to do. Irenas mom, though it wasn’t a good idea but she took her dad’s advice and did what was best, she thought about others before herself and that is what the world is supposed to be like. She knew what was best for the jews. Her dad was a nurse that helped jews, or anyone that was sick. So she had experiences on how to deal with those certain circumstances.
Atwood also references the oppression of Jew's during the holocaust in her novel. Under Hitler's rule 6 million Jews were killed, and many more sent to concentration camps where they were mistreated by their captors.
Agate Rubin was born in 1930 in Czechoslovakia. She lived with her father, mother, aunt and her six year old brother. Agate was only eleven years old when the Holocaust began. Holocaust began on January 30, 1933 and ended on May 8, 1945. The Holocaust was a genocide during World War 11. Adolf Hitler’s Nazi murdered six million European Jews. Agate Robin remembers schools being closed and life not being what it was before this all started. All of the Jews wore yellow stars to show if they were Jewish or not. All of a sudden bombs were flying everywhere and the Germans took over the city. They were told to pack a five kilometer package with all of their belongings. The Nazi marched everyone to their town’s brick factory. In the factory, Agate’s
What are Jews to the world? In the Holocaust, 11 million people died to Hitler and most of them were Jews, the rest were “Subhumans” (Subhumans are a lower order of being than the human in Hitler’s eyes) (Lace 7). Hitler was the leader of the Holocaust and the one who wanted to kill all the Jews in the world. In 1945, April 30 Hitler commits suicide in an underground bunker in Berlin (Lace 11). The Holocaust wasn’t originated by war; it was created by belief in religion. Liane Reif, who is one of the Holocaust survivors, had to live through the holocaust. Although, the Holocaust could be called the cruelest event in history, people would’ve never heard of Liane Reif and learned about her if the Holocaust never happened. Then by people learning Liane Reifs story, she can
Elie uses fear to power and pushed his work forward compared to others. By using fear he emphasizes the pain and hopelessness of his situation. Elie didn’t only write about how he had felt or seen in his time in the camps, but he links them together showing exactly what he had seen and his reaction to the sight. Elie uses this to his advantage because he creates a more traumatizing and personal reference to the reader and creates an emotional connection to the reader making it even more effective without using any statistics whatsoever.The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, between 1933 and 1945. Jews were the primary
Many people identity was changed before and during the events that occurred during the Holocaust. Even before the Holocaust took place in Sighet, the place where the main character is from, the foreign Jews were the first to be targeted. One character identity in specific was changed. Moshe the Beadle, a poor person who was able to conceal his presence, and lived a humble life. He was part of the foreign Jews that were deported, but was able to escape alive back with injuries. Once he returned back, he was changed as Elizer, the main character, stated, “There was no longer any joy in his eyes. He no longer sang. He no longer talked to me of God or of the cabbala, but only of what he had seen” (Wiesel 04). After what Moshe the Beadle had witnessed, he was changed and no longer do anything, but went from house to house warning them of the events that are going to occur. But no one would heared him out and just took it as if he is just making things up. He grew sad and frustrated with himself and the people around him. He felt as if it destroy the purpose of him coming back and living on ward. As Moshe the Beadle said, “I wanted to come back t...
Do you know what it feels like to be forced into hiding, being taken from your home or family? This is what was happening to the Jews in Europe. As time passed many historical events that occurred outside the annex influenced the moods and the relationships of the characters.
In Genesis 19, there is a story about two cities that were very sinful in God’s eyes. There have been many debates on what sin was being committed. A conservative Christian’s view on this story would be that the sin of homosexuality was being committed, but what happens if you look at this chapter without a biased mindset? Most people at Sioux Falls Christian would say that the people of Sodom were punished for the sin of homosexuality, but Patrick S. Cheng goes into detail with a different view. The story of Sodom and Gomorrah sheds light on the sins that were committed, which include gang rape, molestation, and inhospitality, which Cheng talks about in his article, “What Was the Real Sin of Sodom?”.
With a story about the Holocaust setting is bound to be an essential element. So first, is why the setting is important in the novel. In this story the Blumenthals