On February 22, 1943 a genuine woman who fought for what she believed and defended her way of thinking, passed away . The name of this woman is Sophie Scholl and she is a hero. the film was directed by director Marc Rothemund and writed by Fred Breinersdorfer. The tittle of the story "sophie school the final day" is named like that because it explains that she is going to die fighting for what she believed in. The main character is Sophie and also an important character is her brother. they where again the nazzi regimen and where caught acting aggaints them and sentenced to death. The main topics which are fighting for what you belief , symbolism and ……….. demonstrate how deep and complex the story is portraying the fury of the nazzis , their brutal way of acting and finally what happens if one is against them. …show more content…
Risking ones life fighting for the right cause is something only special and brave people are able to do .Sophie was an active member of the White Rose and they where a group of anti-Nazi rebels.
During the Nazi regimen , being against the nazis was punished very severely ; This is demonstrated when Sophie receives the penalty of death after she wrote pamphlets that revealed the terrible Nazi's actions and spread them around an education center to create awareness and make people notice that they should not support the Nazi's. She was willing to get and trouble and risk their life to fight for what she wanted. After she was caught she accepted openly that she did it since she wanted everyone to know it was for a cause and never surrender until the end. The nazzi regimen was over years after the death of Sophie , but it happened because of people like her that supported what is correct and achieved a
goal. symbolism is a big part of the story and simple objects as clothes and colors have deep meaning within them. The color red is an intense color with a lot f meanings and one of its meanings is passion, and passion was one of the biggest attributes that Sophie had . Her passion is demonstrated several times as she is passionate for her cause she is willing to risk herself and this is shown in the representation that her cardigan is red. As explained before , red has several meanings and even tough it can represent passion it can also be a representation of the Nazzis since their bands that they carry around their arm with a Swastica is in a red cloth and the nazzis are represented as death and blood so the color red has an ambiguous meaning in the story.Other symbolism represented in her clothing is that she always wore a jacket and sometimes she took it off . This shows how she is expressing her true self and letting it come out when she takes off the jacket. Finally ,the color white is based on purity and it is represented in the story in her white t-shirt. This demonstrates how pure and genuine Sophie is and this also is a representation of the White Rose group of anti-Nazzism . Since the group fights for a noble cause , it is portrayed as pure and prosper as the color white .
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... fighting for a Jewish cause. This book carefully examines exactly how much Wald distanced herself from her Jewish heritage. Marjorie N. Feld did a wonderful job of portraying Wald as not only a strong, independent woman, but firm in her belief of universalism not particularism. Although the book is written in a highly academic format Feld was able to give the story of Lillian Wald in a matter that allows all who read it to appreciate and understand her work. Wald is the kind of woman all people should hope to meet in their life. After a few pages readers will find themselves intrigued at how well the book was written, Feld inserts quotations from Wald herself that quickly and concisely show the kind of woman she was. This book should be read by anyone who has an interest in the progressive era, women’s rights, or simply the rights of all the world’s diverse people.
In the story, Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow, the thoughts of independence and judgement were shown by German student, Sophie Scholl. Like any other teenager, Sophie started to gain thoughts of her own. She began to “grow away from the National Socialistic Ideas about race, religion, and duty”, as stated in Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow. Sophie immediately began to have her own ideas of society and politicians. What she noticed was that, she had different preferences on some of the subjects she was being taught at school. But unfortunately, Sophie was never able to share her ideas, because her Nazi teachers would not allow any kind of discussion or disagreement in the classroom. Which caused her to stop giving her Nazi teachers the answers to any National Socialistic question, which she thought was wrong. Her teachers soon grew upset with her, and the principle threatened to not allow Sophie to graduate. Sophie was horrified at
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Activities in the concentration camp struck fear within the hearts of the people who witnessed them, which led to one conclusion, people denied the Holocaust. Nazis showed no mercy to anybody, including helpless babies. “The Nazis were considered men of steel, which means they show no emotion” (Langer 9). S.S. threw babies and small children into a furnace (Wiesel 28). These activities show the heartless personality of the Nazis. The people had two options, either to do what the S.S. told them to do or to die with everyone related to them. A golden rule that the Nazis followed stated if an individual lagged, the people who surrounded him would get in trouble (Langer 5). “Are you crazy? We were told to stand. Do you want us all in trouble?”(Wiesel 38). S.S guards struck fear in their hostages, which means they will obey without questioning what the Nazis told them to do due to their fear of death. Sometimes, S.S. would punish the Jews for their own sin, but would not explain their sin to the other Jews. For example, Idek punished Wiesel f...
Susan Brownwell Anthony was one of the most extraordinary people of the 19th century, who rose from an ordinary Quaker world to become known as the “Napoleon” of feminism.
In looking back upon his experience in Auschwitz, Primo Levi wrote in 1988: ?It is naïve, absurd, and historically false to believe that an infernal system such as National Socialism (Nazism) sanctifies its victims. On the contrary, it degrades them, it makes them resemble itself.? (Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, 40). The victims of National Socialism in Levi?s book are clearly the Jewish Haftlings. Survival in Auschwitz, a book written by Levi after he was liberated from the camp, clearly makes a case that the majority of the Jews in the lager were stripped of their human dignity. The Jewish prisoners not only went through a physical hell, but they were psychologically driven under as well. Levi writes, ??the Lager was a great machine to reduce us to beasts? We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death?? (Levi, 41). One would be hard pressed to find passages in Survival in Auschwitz that portray victims of the camp as being martyrs. The treatment of the Jews in the book explicitly spells out the dehumanization to which they were subjected. It is important to look at how the Jews were degraded in the camp, and then examine whether or not they came to embody National Socialism after this.
Brother and Sister Hans and Sophie Scholl are forever recognized for their gallantry, witnessed by their community, recorded in official court documents, and reestablished in a dramatic film directed by Macr Rothemund and written by Fred Breinersdorfer (IMDb). In their film, Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, the audience is introduced to “The White Rose”; a Nazi resistance group constructed in 1992 by a group of young Germans. Out of respect for human life, this group used powerful altercation reflected in the distribution of 6 leaflets (An Honorable Defeat). The film concentrates on The Scholl’s siblings final attempt to distribute copies of these leaflets, their arrest, and interrogation leading up to their execution.
Lucy Stone is known today for many things, among them being the first woman to graduate from college in Massachusetts, one of the first women not to change their name after marriage, the first woman to appeal before a body of lawmakers and forming The Woman’s Journal and The NWSA. Women all over the United States owe much to the work of Lucy Stone. In the history of Woman’s Rights, few can activists can compare with the determination and success of Lucy Stone. While many remember Susan B. Anthony for being the most active fighter for Woman’s Rights, perhaps Lucy is even more important. With out her it would have taken much longer to achieve Woman's Votes.
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Truth inspired words of hope; she motivated others to do something for what they believed was unfair, and left a legacy for humanity.
Sophie was a Polish women and a survivor of Auschwitz, a concentration camp established in Germany during the Holocaust in the early 1940s. In the novel we learn about her through her telling of her experiences, for instance, the murder of her husband and her father. We also come to learn of the dreadful decision she was faced with upon entering the concentration camp, where she was instructed to choose which one of her two children would be allowed to live. She chose her son. Later we learn of her short lived experience as a stenographer for a man by the name of Rudolph Hoss, the Commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. During her time there, Sophie attempted to seduce Hoss in an attempt to have her son transferred to the Lebensborn program so that he may have been raised as a German child. Sophie's attempt was unsuccessful and she was returned back to t...
Esther Reed was one such woman who helped start an organization to help the soldiers who were fighting. Her organization was known as the Philadelphia Association. The Association felt sympathy for the soldiers and decided to take action. They raised money to send to the soldiers, however, George Washington did not approve of this. Instead, the women decided to send warm shirts to the soldiers. They each stitched their names into the shirts they made as a little spirit-raiser to the soldiers out in the cold. The soldiers were reminded that everyone was appreciativ...
She rests peacefully in an unmarked grave sheltered from the violence that followed her through a life marked by danger, courage, tenacious defense of family, flight, and triumphant return (Schafer, 121). She was a remarkable and determined black woman who achieved many accomplishments that are extraordinary. She became a well known figure in a free black community.