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Flashing orange text on the black screen of the overhead time chart is a reminder that my ride will arrive in precisely three minutes. The white letters on the train stop sign read "Neureut Kirchfeld", reminding me once more of where I am. I am an exchange student in Karlsruhe, a German city of over 300,000 residents. It is early July and I am on my way to school. My normal is about three thousand miles away, but my peace of mind and happiness are right in front of me in the form of yellow street cars zooming by, storks gliding through the milky blue sky, and the slow breeze of a summer morning. I am content on this cool, slightly rusted metal bench not because of what I do here, but because of what I don't do. In the early hours of the morning, Neureut Kirchfeld is a place of no stress. I do not worry, I do not fear missing my train or whether or not I have the two Euros to pay for the ride. I do nothing besides sit, exist with my thoughts, plans, and dreams. Here, I breathe in and out, a privilege I know all too well may be taken away at any moment. …show more content…
In the three minutes separating me from here and school, I can experience the feeling of having zero responsibility. Waiting at that train stop, I experience life's simple pleasures. I'm able to soak in the sensation of being surrounded by familiar strangers, the sense of anticipation one gets upon seeing their train approach in the distance. To some, Neureut Kirchfeld is just a stop between a field and a swimming pool, but to me, it was the hub of all things
However, the 4 train resides with me because it gives me the chance to explore the subway thoroughly. It’s always a scary feeling as the 4 train approaches the train station because it sounds like a pack of Rhinos crashing into a halt. I enter the train and quickly gaze of a seat because I know people will be racing to any open seats available. Luckily I found two empty seats and that’s where my luck ended because right next to me sat a drunk who smelled like he had been drinking gallons of liquor. Everyone around him decided to get up and move somewhere else. I decided to move carts because I can’t stand the smell of liquor. That might have been a good thing because I walked right into someone signing “Barcelona by Bill Newman.” After he finished signing I was the only one who clapped and the man turned around and gave me a big smile that I still remember till today. Most people were far too busy listening to their earbuds and didn’t even acknowledge him singing. There were no chatter or laughter, everyone is minding their own business. The mood gradually became positive as more teenagers and kids entered the train. The train ride just became a news source because you can year the gossips or the latest
To a hardworking immigrant like Louis, gemutlichkeit, or good fellowship, was an important part of life. In Germany, people socialized in the beer gardens, listened to music and ...
One day Bruno comes home from school one day and found out that his family was preparing to move. Bruno has always lived in Berlin; therefore his is very depressed by the move. Bruno’s depression increases when he finds out that his family is moving out in the middle of nowhere and is much smaller than their other
Oxlade, John. A brief history of German railways. 31 December 2003. 14 March 2014 .
Mama, though she may be rough, makes us a pea soup each week and has me deliver our washings to our customers, though we are losing them quite quickly. I believe Mama fears we won’t have enough for when winter comes. Papa, a quiet, mannered man, is the best father I could ask for. When I have my terrible nightmares about Werner, he plays on the accordion for me. Lately, he has been teaching me to read and write better, so that I may be able to get to my rightful position in school instead of with the small children. He has even taught me to roll his cigarettes, which he sold to get me two new books for Christmas. Oh, Max! He recently came to live with us, but I have to keep him a secret. At first, I was completely terrified of him; however, once I got to know him better, I now consider him a friend, much like Rudy. We have much in common – fists, nightmares, and trains. Oh, just thinking of those nightmares makes me miss you even more. I wish you were here; my birthday is coming up, and my only wish is to see you once more, though it will never happen because the Führer took you away.. I must not let my hatred engulf me; I
The imagined community at the front of the train has little knowledge of the conditions that the less fortunate passengers of the train are subjected to. The existence of the imagined community that is comprised of ticketed passengers is integral to the sustenance of the train. Nixon writes, “the modern nation-state is sustained by producing imagined communities” (Nixon 167). While the train is by no means a modern nation-state, the privileged passengers are vital. Unlike the unimagined community in the back of the train who are decidedly rebellious, they seem to have largely submitted to the authority of Wilford. Without this submission the train would not be the microstate, it is. Rather, the train would be little more than a shelter from the icy wasteland earth has become. This reliance on an imagined communities is paralleled in all nations today. Without a submissive faction that realises and legitimises their government, the state holds no actual
The walkway before me never becomes silent. A buzz of voices blends with the city soundscape of cars driving and trucks backing, swingsets squealing and sparrows chirping. A toddler, holding tightly to his sister's stroller, yells "Achtung! Achtung! Achtung!" at a squirrel that crosses two inches from his foot. His mother comforts him, in German. A man sits down on the bench across from me, eyelids dropping on his creased red face as he stirs his cup of coffee.
These scenes depict the willingness to change. However, when Thomas attempts to leave the apartment with Dilber the family’s entire mood towards them shifts. Thomas and Dilber were fine when they were contained in the bubble of the heimat but the minute they decide to step outside they are shunned by the family. The family is fine with sharing their ideas and customs with German people but they refuse to integrate past the door of their apartment. The outer world of German appears to be a bridge that they refuse to cross. Dilber’s son even hides on the stairs in wait for his mother and her companion with a gun. Her son would rather lose his mother than allowed her to leave with the German guest. Dilber’s son’s drastic actions conform to the idea that Turkish immigrants are so stuck in their assimilation that they would rather have one of their own die instead if integrating into German society. Similar to 40m2 this film utilizes verfremdungseffekt when Dilber and Thomas exit the apartment building, where the audience is behind them. In Berlin in Berlin however, the audience is close by the couple as if to escape the apartment and begin life anew being integrated into German society. Also similar to 40m2 the hallway before the doorway is dimly lit, whilst the open doorway is teeming with light. The mise en scene of this frame illustration the potential that lies in wait for Dilber as she begins to integrate herself into German society. When Dilber and Thomas make their leave they are followed by and angry and hurt Mürtüz who seeks to force them back to the apartment. Mürtüz’s behavior exhibits Turkish refusal to integrate and to instead return to their previously formed heimat instead of creating a new and hybrid
The earth was destroyed after humans warred against themselves, destroying the ecosystem and the moon. Now the whole planet is reduced to a sandy wasteland with giant cracked continents and large ravines of what used to be an ocean.
(y)ears before, I had noticed how trains accurately represented the culture of a country: the seedy distressed country has seedy distressed railway trains, the proud efficient nation is similarly reflected in its rolling stock, as Japan is. There is hope in India because the trains are considered vastly more important than the monkey wagons some Indians drive. Dining cars, I found, told the whole story (and if there were no dining cars the country was beneath consideration). The noodle stall in the Malaysian train, the borscht and bad manners on the Trans-Siberian, the kippers and fried bread on the Flying Scotsman (p. 17).
...Bendemann's life abruptly changes with the death of his mother. However, along with this change, Georg has to deal with the many torments of the relationship with his father as well as the relationship with himself. Eventually, Georg loses the struggle with his father and allows himself to succumb to his subservient side by committing suicide. As a result, the emotional impact of this dramatic and complex story on the reader is a profound one.
Bruno comes home from school one day to discover that his family is preparing to move. Bruno has always lived in Berlin and therefore he is greatly distressed by this move. Bruno's distress increases when he
Milan Kundera opens the novel with a discourse on Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal recurrence. He rejects any view of the recurrence as being real or metaphysical. It is metaphorical he assures us. In a world of objective meaninglessness one must fall into nihilism unless one acts as if one's acts recur eternally, thus giving our acts "weight," the weight of those choices we make, as though recurring eternally, living forever. Kundera rejects Nietzsche's optimism and in compelling detail and poignancy he give us the story of the painful love affair of Tomas and Tereza, condemned by fate and choice to live together, yet never ceasing to cause each other enormous pain and suffering.
Who doesn’t love a train ride? It offers a unique experience that no other vehicle can match. In a previous issue, we covered the Trans-Siberian Railway. In this article, we will be going on a journey aboard the Bernina Express, beginning our journey from Chur in Switzerland, traveling through wild Canton of Graubünden to Mediterranean Tirano in Italy.