Historically, the Jewish identity has been replete with hope and the desire for better circumstances. The immigration that caused the number of Jewish people in America to spike was a direct result of the Holocaust, an event centered around the decimation of the Jewish population in Europe. Immigrating was done out of a hope that North America would offer a protective haven for Jewish people to regain their communities and retain their culture. Philip Roth’s The Ghost Writer and Shalom Aquarium’s Hope: A Tragedy details these Jewish American stories through a lens of security and suffering, juxtaposing the ways in which the new American landscape treats Jewish people. Hope is a thread throughout The Ghost Writer and Hope: A Tragedy, to emphasize the importance of …show more content…
She ventured to America out of hope that when she arrived, her life would be better than it was in Europe. However, Hollander deliberately forced Anne Frank back into an attack to punctuate her struggle. Hope was used to undercut her survival, because Anne Frank didn’t want to merely survive. She yearned for greatness. The book that she works on for the entirety of Hope: A Tragedy is indicative of this struggle. Anne Frank is compelled to keep hoping, believing that it will save her like it did in the concentration camp, yet all it does is remind her of the cyclical structure of her life and how she is not in a vastly better circumstance than she was prior to leaving Europe. She realizes this in herself when she monologues, “What is the point of a phoenix rising if all it ever does is gaze down with perverse longing at its torches reliquiae? Stay down, you miserable bastard bird, stay down! glory was in rising, fool, not in having burned!” (Auslander 67). Anne Frank is that phoenix, who after achieving what she had hoped for, survival of the Holocaust, she is now forced to simmer in her inability to reach anything else she
them false hope when there was none. Throughout the first two chapters, the Jews always thought the best for themselves when the Nazis forced a change on them. “Optimism soon revived: the Germans would
Imagine being trapped in a ghetto, seeing communities leaving in trains, families being split up, never to see each other again.. The emotions that each and every Holocaust survivor must’ve gone through is overwhelming. Some things that are taken for granted, will never be seen again. While reading the two texts, Night by Elie Wiesel and “I Never Saw Another Butterfly” by Pavel Friedman, The two predominant emotions that prevailed most to Holocaust victims and survivors were hope and fear.
The chaos and destruction that the Nazi’s are causing are not changing the lives of only Jews, but also the lives of citizens in other countries. Between Night by Elie Wiesel and The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom, comradeship, faith, strength, and people of visions are crucial to the survival of principle characters. Ironically, in both stories there is a foreseen future, that both seemed to be ignored.
Everyday, their lives are filled with darkness and degeneracy. The whole world’s scared and they decide to swallow the fear. Growing up in a wartime environment isn’t easy at all. All of their lives have been mistreated, misplaced, misunderstood. Yet, Anne Frank still believes that people are good at heart.
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Anne's optimistic personality created the hope that she had for her future. Each day she could do nothing but just hope that one day everything will turn around and be better. In The Diary Of Anne Frank play, she expressed, "It'll pass, maybe not for hundreds of years, but someday..." Deep down inside, she had the hope that all of the disgusting things that Hitler alongside his army performed, would all vanish one day. She knew for the most part that the hatred may never go away, but imagining that it might, made things at least a bit better. Anne's situation was pure negativity, with almost nothing good about it. The only good thing that may have come out of it for her were the relationships that she created with everyone in hiding with her. From the Van Daans, to Miep, she bonded amazing friendships with each person involved. Aside from that, Anne's personality stuck out more than anyone's because of the hope that she had, in such a terrible situation.
In the Diary of Anne Frank hope and courage is an important element to have during hardships as shown through the Franks, Miep, and Mr. Kraler. They present this through their actions, words, and thoughts about their faith that everything will be alright in spite of their situation. These components are essential in times of misery because without them for they would have given up on life a long time ago. Their courage and hope will show shine through in the evidence below to support this idea. That is why having hope and courage is so crucial during misfortune and the life they’re living.
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed…“(Wiesel 32) Livia-Bitton Jackson wrote a novel based on her personal experience, I Have Lived a Thousand Years. Elli was a Holocaust victim and her only companion was her mother. Together they fought for hunger, mistreatment and more. By examining the themes carefully, the audience could comprehend how the author had a purpose when she wrote this novel. In addition, by seeing each theme, the audience could see what the author was attacking, and why. By illustrating a sense of the plight of millions of Holocaust victims, Livia-Bitton Jackson explores the powerful themes of one’s will to survive, faith, and racism.
The delineation of human life is perceiving existence through resolute contrasts. The difference between day and night is defined by an absolute line of division. For the Jewish culture in the twentieth century, the dissimilarity between life and death is bisected by a definitive line - the Holocaust. Accounts of life during the genocide of the Jewish culture emerged from within the considerable array of Holocaust survivors, among of which are Elie Wiesel’s Night and Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower. Both accounts of the Holocaust diverge in the main concepts in each work; Wiesel and Wiesenthal focus on different aspects of their survivals. Aside from the themes, various aspects, including perception, structure, organization, and flow of arguments in each work, also contrast from one another. Although both Night and The Sunflower are recollections of the persistence of life during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel and Simon Wiesenthal focus on different aspects of their existence during the atrocity in their corresponding works.
She is very courageous and hopeful that the war will end soon. Anne has no religious freedom, or freedom what so ever, no contact with the outside world, a small living area, little food, and not much privacy. Through all this, Anne still maintained hope and a good outlook on life. The antagonist is the Germans. They want to rid the world of anyone who isn’t German, mostly the Jews.
Anne Frank was an exceptional young woman, but she went through horrific events where she watched her world crumble before her eyes, unable to stop it. Anne was Jewish, so at the time she was see as “wrong“ and would have been put to death upon being spotted. So, in a secret Annex where she was left with her family and others to hide, she wrote in her soon to be famous diary, “In spite of everything, I still believe people are good at heart,” right before she was transported to the death camps. Her quote shows readers even though she was going through something unimaginable, she had faith and believed that there was something better out there for her and her family. Unfortunately, she was never able to see that day. Anne was hopeful, optimistic, forgiving, and courteous. She also had several inspiring quotes
David Malter, Reuven’s father, believed the need for a Jewish state was dire because of the information about Hitler and his concentration camps that had been published in the newspaper. The historical significance of millions of Jewish lives lost in Europe affected the cultural values in the Jewish community. Mr. Malter states, “We cannot wait for God….We have a terrible responsibility…The Jewish world is changed” (Potok 191). The impacts of the concentration camps were enormous and left the world unsettled. He goes on to say, “If we do not rebuild Jewry in America, we will die as a people” (191-192). He strongly believed his religion would waste away when the American Jews passed on. He believed this because of the historical events that had taken place; history affects culture. Reb Saunders’ viewpoint is much different from David Malter’s; instead, he believes that a Jewish state without the Messiah would be blasphemous. He asks, “Tell me, we should forget completely about the Messiah? For this six million of our people were slaughtered? That we should forget completely about the Messiah, that we should forget completely about the Master of the Universe” (Potok 198). Danny’s
In the sources used, the situations that are experienced seems like there is no hope to be found, only fear. Fear will protect us, we hope. Nevertheless, hope is everywhere no matter what. For World War II in The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank is the secret annex’s hope. Anne Frank is a 13-year old girl that has the most hope of surviving the Nazi Invasion. All you can think is, “Ah, the Nazi’s are coming! Run for your lives!” That is what went through many minds during this time period, fear. Fear is a strong ally to have. You can worry all the time and no one will stop you. But, hope can be an even stronger ally, if you believe.
In Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl and Dear Miss Breed, all of the main characters used a mix of hope and courage to solve the problems they were facing. Anne Frank, was a teenager who hid from the Nazis because she was Jewish. She used courage... “But as you can see, Kitty, I’m still alive, and that’s the main thing” (Frank)... to face the problem of loneliness and fear. In Dear Miss Breed, Louise, uses hope and courage to “find(ing) positive things to say about Poston”...(Oppenheim). Both characters in these stories
The Diary of Anne Frank portrayed perseverance in an individual's characteristics in times of despair. It displays that the way you live your life depends on one's perspective and mentality towards the world. Written by Anne Frank herself, this diary conveyed the perspective of a distraught teen living during the Holocaust. Anne writes about her feelings of isolation and loneliness, each diary entry maturing as time passes. Despite her situation that she was put i...