Kaylah Lightfoot
3. Why is it so difficult for Oskar to learn the English language?
I think that Oskar is having a difficult time learning English because he is still angry that he had to leave his country because of the terrible Nazis. He had to leave his family and wife because he knew that if he stayed he would be killed. Martin tells us that Oskar explains “his intense and everlasting hatred of the Nazis for destroying his career, uprooting his life, and flinging him like a piece of bleeding meat to the hawks.” When he thinks about his success that he accomplishes he thinks himself into a bad state because he has no one the share the accomplishment because his family didn’t come to America if him, so he begins it give up again. Martin tells us that Oskar also says “He said the fear grew as he worked that he would die before he completed the lecture, or if not that, he would write it so disgracefully he would wish for death.” Oskar has so many doubts, which is why I think he can’t learn English.
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Oskar commits suicide by breathing gas from his gas oven. Explain the terrible irony of his method of suicide. Martin tries to make sure that there was no way for Oskar to kill himself after scaring himself when he noticed Oskar’s door was cracked open.
He says “When I knocked no one answered. As I stood there, chilled down the spine, I realized I was thinking about the possibility of his attempting suicide again.” Martin started to really care about Oskar. He checked all his drawers and chest to make sure there wasn’t anything in there for Oskar to kill myself with. Martin went to visit Oskar two days after the big lecture, but “He had taken his life-gas- I hadn’t even thought of the stove in the kitchen.” Oskar had taken his life by gassing himself in his apartment. The irony is that in German the Nazis had many, many ways of killing Jews and one of the ways were to stick many Jews into a small room and fill the room with gas until they all passed away. Oskar moved to America to not get killed by the Nazis, but ended up taking his life the same way the Nazis would
have. 9. Both stories include a teacher of English. Compare and contrast the two teachers and how they view themselves in relation to their pupils. I think both Martin and Mrs. Hamma wanted to develop a strong relationship with their student(s). I think that Martin had a closer relationship with Oskar than Mrs. Hamma had with all her students because he had more one on one time with Oskar than Mrs. Hamma did with any of her students. Martin learned deeply about Oskar’s life back home and his new life in America. Mrs. Hamma had all the students talk a little about their lives, but she kept saying “make it brief, there are others, you know.”, which made me think that she didn’t really want to know a lot about their lives, but just for all the students to feel more connected together. Mrs. Hamma asked her students to stay after class many times, but no one ever wanted to stay other than the last class they had together. With Martin and Oskar, Martin felt a direct relationship with Oskar, like he was family. You could tell they were like family when martin said “We thought of escape into the country, but neither of us had the money. One day I bought Oskar a secondhand electric fan.”
One example being when he finally comes to terms with his mother over the day his father died, and how see told him his “Dad would have been proud” (Foer 323) for going on and searching for the answer. Another example of his evolution a character is when Abby Black contacts him once again about the whereabouts of his father’s lock he takes public transit without a second guess, something he would have avoided at all costs due to his previous concerns about terror attacks, like the one that took his father. As Oskar paced through his excursion he slowly flourished out of his introvert based lifestyle, which many would have considered out of the norm.
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In Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Oskar Schell can be seen confronting several different types of trials, some of these being man versus man conflicts, and others being man versus self. One of the major man vs. man trials Oskar faces throughout the course of the book is in the form of the noticeable and consistent bullying he takes because of his awkward personality and odd quirks. Kids like Jimmy Snyder can be seen exploiting Oskar’s social shortcomings verbally, and even being ready to turn towards physical bullying (Foer 189-192). As Oscar is not the knight in shining armor, he rarely stands up for himself, instead fantasizing about actions he would like to take and follows that up by saying, “that’s what I wanted to do. Instead I just shrugged my shoulders” (Foer 203). Throughout the course of the story, Oskar also faces many internal conflicts. The death of his father has left Oskar traumatized giving him fears of taking showers and getting into elevators…people with mustaches, smoke, knots, tall buildings, and turbans” (Foer 36). As Oskar continues on his quest, he eventually comes face to face with many of his fears, and is forced to confront and ultimately overcome them. Oskar’s final and arguably most daunting challenge is facing his own inner demons in regards to the death of his father. A year after his father’s passing, he has
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After reading this article, I feel like I have a fresh and new look on how to better spot children who are falling behind in their language proficiency. References: Lippi-Green, R. (2012). The 'Path of the English with an accent (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. Monzó, L. D., & Rueda, R. (2009).
“Nothing is beautiful and true” (Foer, 43). Oskar tells this to his mom towards the beginning of the novel, and it is a surprisingly depressing and haunting thought for a the average nine year-old to have, let alone vocalize to an adult so off-hand. The reader could use this quote to show how Oskar’s worldview has changed since the death of his father. With is loss of innocence comes a darke...
Denial was also used through the novel as a defense mechanism so that the person can protect themselves from the pain he or she was feeling at that point in time. When Oskar father Thomas Schelle, has gone missing him and his mother both decided it would be a good idea to “fill a suitcase with a poster of Oskar's father and post them all around town they refused to believe that Thomas could have been dead”(For 229). When Oscar and his mother put up these posters it gave them a sense of belief and hope that their loved one may still be alive. Another person the denied the death of a loved one was Oskar grandfather, they believed he was“trying to remake the girl he knew seven years before”, his beloved Anna, who had died in the bombing of Dresden (83). Many Psychologists have said that “ People grieve because they are expecting their loved ones to magically appear even though he or she is really gone”. Living in denial is very hard for a person and it is hard to move on into their day to day routines. Denials help delay the other stages of the grief and this stage usually lasts the longest. One of the first feelings that we experience after Denial is anger. Anger comes after the numbing of shock that something bad just had happened. Oskar puts all of his anger towards his mother because he thinks that his mother does not love his father anymore because he believes she is not honouring his name and memory. Seeing his mother being happy and continuing on with her life makes him think that she does not miss his dad (Foer 170). Oskar was releasing all of his build up anger towards his mother because he felt that it was her fault and that she was moving on without
...ew paragraph every time someone new speaks. He uses phrases and words such as “Heavy Boots,” “Extremely,” and “I’m OK.” Oskar’s grandfather, one of the main characters, the renter, accounts often start with the title “Letters to my unborn son,” which allow you to see his deep sense of regret. He writes to express himself. Often he uses phrases such as, “Do you know what time it is?” and “I’m sorry I don’t speak.” He also uses big paragraphs, that show’s he has a lot he has not been able to say for years, and once he starts speaking it is very hard to stop him. Oskar’s grandmother’s chapters are titled,” My Feelings.” She loves puns, and phrases. Often she will speak in short sentences, and paragraphs. One gets the feeling that she is not used to sharing large details about her life, despite her self-consciousness she tries to tell her story and create her character.
Stein, a prisoner at the concentration camp, claimed he had nothing left to live for. All thin, weak and dried up, he kept on struggling for survival
The first and second year after moving from China to the United States, I was afraid to talk to strangers because my English was not very well. I had to depend on my husband for dealing with my personal business, such as making a doctor’s appointment, calling to the bank, or questioning to DMV officers. Douglass says, “being a slave for life began to bear heavily upon my heart” (62). For myself, being a dependent and helpless adult is a shame. Moreover, I lacked of extra money to go to school to improve my English. Thus, I stayed home all the time to avoid embarrassment of talking to strangers. After a while, I realized that improving English speaking skills are the essential to gain my self-confidence. So, I spent time to read various articles on the internet and watched English dialogues’ videos on YouTube. As a non-English speaking immigrant living in the U.S., I inevitably encountered a series of difficulties to integrate myself into a new
Oskar, in the beginning of the film, was much like Amon, using the plight of the Jews for his own personal gain. He hires Jewish labor and uses Jewish money to start up a business. As he told his wife, the only thing he had been missing on all his business ventures was war. Though there isn’t any dialogue to give us any direct clues, the scene in which Schindler witnesses the liquidation of the ghetto at Krakow hints at the changes that start to overtake him. He appears to be absorbed by the blunt realization of what the Nazis are really doing. He watches from a hill overlooking the ghetto, as Jews are slaughtered and children are ignorant to what is happening. The horror of it all is too much for his mistress to handle, and she begs him to leave the terrible scene.
Oskar Schindler would never have been anyone’s ideal savior, especially for the Jewish community. He was an open member of the Nazi party, a womanizer, a gambler, an alcoholic, and was extremely money hungry, but was successfully able to rescue and save from death over twelve hundred Jewish men and women. Schindler was born on April 28th, 1908 in Zwittua, Czechoslavakia. He was born Catholic and into a wealthy family, but started early on a life of sin. In 1930 he moved to Poland in hopes of becoming a success in business. As the Holocaust was just in its’ beginnings, he was able to get his hands on an enamel wear factory on Lapowa Street in in Krakow. This was one of the factories that used to owned and ran by a Jewish individual, but was then stripped away from them like all other businesses that were stolen away from the Jewish people during the Holocaust. The location of the factory was only a few miles away from the ghettos. Schindler quickly moved in on the SS officers and tried to make close ties with them in order to gain connections with high authority. He showered them with women, money, alcohol, and other desired objects. From his new acquaintances he obtained free employment from the Jewish “slaves” of the labor camps. In order to keep his factory and the money he was making, Schindler changed his factory to cater to wartime needs. The factory was modified from producing enamel wares to ammuntion, but the ammunition was faulty and did not work. S...
The reason he gave him the spoon and knife is that he thought he wouldn’t make it through the selection. It was because his ad was not as strong as he was before. He thought he couldn’t do it anymore. But his son told him he could make it through the selection and come out and be with him. His father that he insisted that he take the spoon and knife. His father came back and passed the selection so his son gave him all of his stuff back. The reason it was such a good inheritance was because if your first spoon and knife got stolen you would have another back up pair. His father also wanted to give him his bowl. His father really thought he wouldn’t make it out of the selection so he gave his son his bowl also. It was such a good gift at Auschwitz
What happened to Oskar’s father will permanently be etched in his heart, hence, Oskar feels as if no matter how happy he tries to be, it will only be overshadowed by that tragedy: “I couldn’t explain to her that I missed him more, more than she or anyone else missed him, because I couldn’t tell her about what happened with the phone. That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into” (Foer, 71). Everyone can relate to Oskar that there are just some instances or events in life that will always be memorable and their power to inflate or deplete him or her. The use of pathos in this novel indicates the never-ending regret or questions that Oskar has about his adversity: “Why didn’t he say goodbye? I gave myself a bruise. Why didn’t he say ‘I love you’?” (Foer, 207). Oskar’s experiences prompted him to mature and step up from in life at an early stage of his
Children’s acquisition of language has long been considered one of the uniquely defining characteristics of human behaviour.