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-"So our perfect outing was ruined – because of what the stunt, as my father called it, had inspired in everyone except us. 'We knew things were bad,' my father told the friends he immediately sat down to phone when we got home, 'but not like this. You had to be there to see what it looked like. They live a dream, and we live a nightmare" (Roth 281). Roth impacts the reader in a powerful way by using his specific choice of words in a sentence (diction) and metaphors, to show how much Lindbergh affects Herman Roth and his Jewish family. Roth writes that looking at Lindbergh's plane twice while he was out, "ruined" his "perfect" trip (Roth 281). The writer's diction in this situation shows the difference of how Herman felt before he saw the planes, and then how he felt after he saw them. Philip Roth also uses metaphors to sum up how Herman compared the experience, and how others felt about the experience. When Herman saw crowds of people stand up just to watch Lindbergh, an anti-Semitic, he felt sick, but everyone else around him jumped up with excitement and joy …show more content…
and shouted "Hurray". The author uses the metaphor "They live a dream, and we live a nightmare" to convey a message to the reader, that the Roth's did not see the Lindbergh's as everyone else did, and that everyone else's dreamy state, was their nightmare. To me this was very powerful because we never know how people are affected by others. Herman and his family were innocent Jewish people, who could not leave the anti-Jewish views of people, because of a man who swore by being anti-Semitic. In reality, many of us probably look up to people that somebody we know despises. Our conflicting views generate a hateful environment, which Philip Roth shows in the story. 2) When Herman's son Sandy tells him "you're a dictator worse than Hitler", I truly disagreed with how Herman handled that situation (Roth 677). After hearing his son's words, Herman "turned away in disgust and left for work" but he should have reached out to his son and asked him why he felt that way, and what made him come to that conclusion (Roth 677). Herman missed an opportunity to get his son to finally open up to him and spill his feelings out. He should have dropped his tough-guy act for a few minutes and hugged his son, apologizing for everything he put him through. The scene should have been an emotional confession from father and son, rather than a tension filled confrontation. Also, Herman should not have left for work, he should have stayed home with his family, and been nothing but a father. By leaving for work, it was sort of like walking out on his son during his time of need. I also thought that Sandy shouldn't have exploded on his dad. Herman is always stressed, and being disrespected by his son adds to that stress. 5) -Something I had trouble grasping was that "The Plot Against America" is a fictional piece of work.
Throughout the book, I had to keep telling myself over and over that the events in the book never really occurred. I was confused because the reality of the 1900's was that Hitler did have a major influence of the people he came into contact with, but then again, the Holocaust was not a major issue in the United States. Most of Hitler's power and abuse was spread throughout Europe rather than the U.S. Another detail of the book that was confusing to understand was that Sandy went against his family to support an Anti-Semitic. The reason this was difficult to understand was because Sandy was always the smart and quiet one, if he had been smart, he wouldn’t have been trapped by Lindbergh's ideas. The book doesn't thoroughly explain how a young boy can be so easily brainwashed, as to go against his
family. 6) -After completing the book it is obvious to me that Roth believes that people in general are afraid. and do things to support their self-interest. Lindbergh was a man who was forced by his own fear and selfishness to support Hitler. He was fearful of Hitler's power, and followed him like a sheep, to save himself from the wrath of Hitler. The book also gives the message that everything is not as it seems. At home, Sandy seemed fine, until he exploded onto his family showing that he had hid many of his true feelings. Also, America seemed like a neutral country, but people were obviously split with how they felt towards Hitler and anti-Semitism in general.
...the time of the Holocaust, as described by Breitman, Feingold, and the other authors. The articles, essays, and chapters included in the book went into detail about how FDR could have and should have responded differently to the Holocaust. The book is a series of essays based on the original conference, and because they were written to inform and not entertain, it left the book dry and confusing. As a student who is studying this time period in history, I found it difficult to understand what the different sources were referring to. I believe that this book would be great as a reference, source for differing opinions, and provision of new information of FDR and the Holocaust for an academic scholar. For me, the scholarly reading level that the book was written in was at times overwhelming and I would not recommend it to the average reader interested in the topic.
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness,” Desmond Tutu once said (“Desmond Tutu Quotes”). During the Holocaust, the Jews were treated very badly but some managed to stay hopeful through this horrible time. The book Parallel Journeys by Eleanor Ayer shows how Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck who had two very different stories but managed to stay hopeful. Helen was a Jew who went into hiding for awhile before being taken away from her family and being sent to a concentration camp. Alfons was a member of the Hitler Youth where he became the youngest member of the German air force. To him, Hitler was everything and he would die any day for him and his country. As for Helen, Hitler was the man ruining her life. The Holocaust was horrible to live through but some managed to survive because of the hope they contained.
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to live during World War 2? Life during World War 2 was torture if you were jewish, especially if you were a kid. Felix Salingar from Then by Morris Gleitzman and Anne Frank both knew what it was like. Their stories both describe the lives of jewish children hiding from the Nazis, in fear of being taken and killed. Throughout both of their stories, many character traits were discovered about them that show how they are similarly affected by the events in their stories. Anne Frank and Felix Salingar have many similarities, some of which stand out more than others.
The Silber Medal winning biography, “Surviving Hitler," written by Andrea Warren paints picture of life for teenagers during the Holocaust, mainly by telling the story of Jack Mandelbaum. Avoiding the use of historical analysis, Warren, along with Mandelbaum’s experiences, explains how Jack, along with a few other Jewish and non-Jewish people survived.
In Song of Solomon, a novel by Toni Morrison, flight is used as a literal and metaphorical symbol of escape. Each individual character that chooses to fly in the novel is “flying” away from a hardship or a seemingly impossible situation. However, by choosing to escape, one is also deliberately choosing to abandon family and community members. The first reference to this idea is found in the novel’s epigraph: “The fathers may soar/ And the children may know their names,” which introduces the idea that while flight can be an escape, it can also be harmful to those left behind. However, while the male characters who achieve flight do so by abandoning their female partners and family, the female characters master flight without abandoning those they love. Throughout the novel, human flight is accepted as a natural occurrence, while those who doubt human flight, such as Milkman, are viewed as abnormal and are isolated from the community. It is only when Milkman begins to believe in flight as a natural occurrence that he is welcomed back into the community and sheds his feelings of isolation.
Vonnegut's writing style throughout the novel is very flip, light, and sarcastic. The narrator's observations and the events occurring during the novel reflect a dark view of humanity which can only be mocked by humor. At the beginning of the novel the narrator is researching for a book he is writing. The book was to be about the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and the lives of the people who created the bomb. The narrator travels through the plot of the story, with characters flying in and out, in almost a daze. He is involved in events which are helplessly beyond his control, but which are inevitably leading to a destination at the end.
...urvivors crawling towards me, clawing at my soul. The guilt of the world had been literally placed on my shoulders as I closed the book and reflected on the morbid events I had just read. As the sun set that night, I found no joy in its vastness and splendor, for I was still blinded by the sins of those before me. The sound of my tears crashing to the icy floor sang me to sleep. Just kidding. But seriously, here’s the rest. Upon reading of the narrators’ brief excerpt of his experience, I was overcome with empathy for both the victims and persecutors. The everlasting effect of the holocaust is not only among those who lost families÷, friends,
The Holocaust is marked as one of the most horrifying events of the 20th century.The person who was responsible for the Holocaust was Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party. The question is, how, and why was Hitler able to do this? The actual truth behind all this is that, Hitler could make the world his, just by using words. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, it tells a story about a young girl growing up when Nazi Germany was invincible. The author explores some very meaningful, yet, controversial themes for the most part of the novel. Out of all themes, he believes that words hold a remarkable power. He explores how words manipulate, divide, and connect people.
I really enjoyed this book because it was not a story about the middle of the Second World War. Instead it was right before, when things were not as bad, but they were bad enough. It helped me understand how people lived before the hatred grew and how families were torn apart right from the beginning. Likewise, it gave me hope to see that not everything was destroyed and that some people were able to escape. I would recommend this book more for boys but for girls as well, between the ages of 13-15. Even though Karl’s age throughout the book is 14-17, the novel was written more for my age group. Once again this was an amazing book that I could not put down, and I am sure many others were not able to either.
Hitler’s and his nazi’s rule is one of the most important historical event s of our world. They terrorized many including German citizens, and especially the Jews. In the novel, The City of God by E.L Doctorow, we follow a young boy named Albert through his life as a young Jewish boy living at the Kovno ghetto. The horrors lived by the boy are an example of what Adolf Hitler wrote in his book, Mein Kampf, and what Aime Cesaire wrote on his Discourse on Colonialism.
... During the rule of Adolf Hitler, many children who were Jewish lived a very frightening and difficult life. They were never given the love and compassion that every child needs and deserves growing up. The Holocaust is a story that will continue to be shared until the end of time. Works Cited Peabody, Halina.
...ough. He also compares himself with his dead brother because he thinks his dad favors him since he lived through the same experiences. This survivor’s guilt is even seen in his father, since he takes out his guilt of surviving, when many of his friends and family did not, on his son. Guilt is one of the driving factors of this book, and shows how the greater society feels towards the Holocaust. Society feels guilty for not doing anything to stop the Nazis. Many people knew what was going on, yet they didn’t stop them. Even people in the Jewish community heard of what was happening, but didn’t believe them. Now after everything is said and done, the feel guilty for what happened. Just as Art feels guilty for not living through it, society as a whole feels guilty for not stepping in. No one truly survived the Holocaust since the guilt is constantly weighing on them.
My view on the Holocaust hasn't changed because of the book. Having read Night by Elie Wiesel and Ordinary Men, both hit touch the theme on inhumanity towards human beings but there's the innocent Jews who never had the chance to pull out and not participate in the any of the shootings. The victims being dropped off at Auschwitz and all concentration camps get there with process of selection from immediate death and being stripped of their names and get given a barcode for a name by the camp. The whole idea to me is inhumane and disgusting.
Hitler and Goebbels understood the importance of children and how they would control the future. They had to make sure that children had direct links with the Nazi party and supported it fully. In 1933 Hitler and Goebbels effectively made sure this would happen using the education system. Nazi organizations, students, librarians, and professors came together to make a list of books to ban [1]. Many of these books included author such as Albert Einstein, Jack London and Hemmingway. May tenth, bookstores and libraries were stormed by many and the books were burned. In the education system, teachers removed any and all books that were blacklisted. The books used to replace the books, which had previously filled the shelves of classrooms, talked of Hitler in a way that showed his as a heroic figure. This gai...
Main focuses on how Hitler’s first goal was to gain absolute power, how he developed anti-Semitic ideas, and on how Hitler had many theories going on during his reign. Each topic that was talked about had major effects and played significant roles during the Holocaust. “The greatest revolutionary leader of the twentieth century was not Lenin or Stalin. It was Hitler.” This quote is important because it is true. Hitler wanted to take complete control and he did so, he was a powerful man and did not let anything get or stand in his way. He revolutionized a whole country, and every event that had occurred during the Holocaust, you can tie this quote into because it is true. He is one of the most significant people in history, and he wanted to create a legacy and be a legacy, which he sadly did and is still talked about till this