While reading your book, I learned so many things that happened in World War II that I didn't know about. I always thought that Japan was swept up in the war by Germany, but how wrong was I. "The Rape of Nanking" opened my eyes to how the Japanese thought about other ethnicities and how they felt that they were superior. I learned the treacherous they did to the Chinese people. I thought that some of the things you wrote were exaggerations, but with the pictures you provide, made me realize that it was not exaggerations, but actual events that happened at Nanking. I learned that the Holocaust was not the only horrible event of war that was going on. The book was one of the hardest books to read with all the rapes, mutilation of females and torture male Chinese. How they did not spare old woman, children and pregnant women. How the Japanese didn't even treat their own females with respect. Also, the pictures and the maps gave me more a vivid visual of what happend. In the beginning, I thought that the rapes were as gruesome as they really are. As well as, it made me think without a dought, that everything this book is true. How a second Holocaust of the Chinese was not giving its place in history and how historian at schools do not mention it to the people. …show more content…
There is no excuse that japan can give for all these massacres they have commit. What makes me madder is how they did not give some psychological help of any recognition to some heroes of this book. One of the heroes was John Rabe a nazi believer, He believed that the Nazi party was socialist and believe Hitler would come and help the Chinese people.
Jonh Rabe gave small gifts as present for birthdays, rescued women or female children that were being raped by Japanese soldiers. He gave food to re refugee and tried to help as many as he could. Therefore he was one of the greatest heroes of helping the Chinese people not to lose hope, but in the end was condemned with the rest of nazi party. He was threatened and left in poverty after the war. Although, the Chinese people did not forget his generosity in their time of need and the Chinese people saved money up to give to
him. Another great hero of the Chinese is Robert Wilson as he did not leave as many other doctors and surgeons left. He stayed and help as many Chinese people as he could. He did not have the heart to turn patients away. He did not charge the people could not pay, and work day and night to save as many as he could. He did the most he could even dough the people that came in were severely mutilated or cut or gang rape victims from Japanese soldiers. Wilhelmina Vautrin is a hero for hope. A women that stood up for the Chinese at the cost of being slap and by Japanese soldiers. How she saved wounded Chinese soldiers by incinerating their paper of military. She turned the Ginling college to refugge camp for the Chinese. Telling the Chinese to hope that china had not yet fallen. Sadly with all that she witness she committed suicide. Three brave heroes were not honored for how they help the people of china, Instead were forgetten in history. How these brave souls should have gain recognition for their brave acts during a difficult time. I am furious on how these great heroes that help Chinese people were not helped and died tragic deaths without being remembered for their bravery. The question I have are not for you, but the people involve in this hideous events. How did Japan get out this whole blame? How many around the world knew of the events china and did nothing about it. Why is chinese holocaust not being teach in high school? I am truly saddened that the U.S.A does not teach this in their schools. Do not talk about the atracherious in japan. There is so excuse for the Japanese crimes. One thing that does sadden me about the Japanese was their children. For Instance how the Japanese children were taught at school. A teacher said to it's student "...squeamish Japanese schoolboy...burst into tears...His teacher ...''why are you crying about one lousy frog? When you grow up you'llhave to kill one hundred, two hundred chinks!'''(Chang, Pg.30, 1997). The fact the Japanese children were brainwashed and made into cold monster are the faults of their leaders that had failed them. I do not believe that all Japanese had the fault that happened in Nanking, but I do believe that all that participated in the rapes should have been punished. The generals and the emperor and everyone that played a part of this should be punished. The acts of violent that were commited are not justified at all. How can people not be punished for their horrible crimes? For example "'Few know that soldiers impaled babies on bayonets and tossed them still alive into pots of boiling water,'''(Chang, Pg.59, 1997). The autrocitity of killing babies alive should be punished. I do not belive how only 11 were the only ones punished. How many soldiers had the same excuse as the germans with the latter that he was ordered to do it? How much cruelity did the Chinese people had suffered and hush about? How many japanese got away with their crimes and how so many don't still not about the history of this second holocaust. How the Japanese escaped from paying and how they the had the audacity to believe they ahd done nothing more. How the allied forces did not punish japan for all their war crime and help build up its economy. how after everything it was all hush and have not yet apologized for their crime against the Chinese people . I would recommend this book to be read only to mature friends or audience because of how often i had to stop myself from reading the massacres that happened in Nanping. The book gives images of heads, of soldies poking Chinese bodies, of women mutilated and more. I do hope that high schools all over the world would tell more about the truth of war in china. There should no be graphic, but not hide or bypass the crimes that the Japanese committed. Sincerly, Mirian Zamora
There were many aspects in World War two, but the Holocaust is likely the most famous to date. A particular interest is shown for the Holocaust simply because of the unbelievable amount of inhumanity that was exhibited. Although saddening, the attention that has been focused on uncovering the truths of this terrifying event is necessary. Truly understanding how awful the Holocaust was helps to ensure that something similar will never happen again. The book Night and the movie Schindler’s List are two recollections of the Holocaust written from two, very different, perspectives.
...was outstanding. She gives great insight to the horrors and the suffering and allows the reader to be placed into the same place with a large understanding of the emotions that took place. The only thing to complain about is the prolonging amount of detail on the dates and statistics. It’s hard to follow and difficult for one to pay attention and that’s where it became mundane. I can definitely confirm that it was worth the purchase and the time spent into the read. I could honestly say that I’ve already recommended it to others, and I will continue to do so. The people I’d recommend it to though is people interested in the subject and overly eager to learn about new things as opposed to my buddies.
In conclusion, I feel that I gained a better understanding of the Holocaust. I also learned to manage my time during research days. I feel that this project was a great step towards high school and its many long and difficult assignments. I feel that I have done a good job and put forth a great effort in this assignment. I hope all of my hard work will pay off not only with a good grade but with a new knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust. I believe I will come away from this with great sense of accomplishment and relief.
Furthermore, the story teaches readers to be knowledgeable. The story shows what a world without knowledge looks like and it is terrible. People should not deter from learning unless they want to become someone else's puppet. Students, in school, should absorb all the information their teachers give them. The world is a very cold, cruel place and if a person is not educated he/she will nor make it in life. The world will chew him/her up, and spit him/her out.
The Holocaust is a topic that is still not forgotten and is used by many people, as a motivation, to try not to repeat history. Many lessons can be taught from learning about the Holocaust, but to Eve Bunting and Fred Gross there is one lesson that could have changed the result of this horrible event. The Terrible Things, by Eve Bunting, and The Child of the Holocaust, by Fred Gross, both portray the same moral meaning in their presentations but use different evidence and word choice to create an overall
After reading your novel, Night, I felt a mix of sadness and anger. The cruelty of the Nazi regime to the innocent Jewish people is a crime that cannot be forgotten because, as you said, it is like a victory for the Nazis when their crimes are erased from human memory. One of the most shocking scenes from the novel occurs near the beginning, where babies are being burned by the truckload. Children too young to resist burned alive because they could not work in the camps. I cannot even imagine how it must have felt to the mothers and fathers of those children to watch that. Another shocking scene was when the train was going to WHEEERE, and the dead were thrown out of the train. After suffering and when faced with harsh conditions, people were
History will never forget the pain because it takes an ethnic or even a nation to remember it. The Nanjing Massacre, which is my home country’s pain and shame, is not going to be forgotten and ignored either. The Raping of Nanking by Iris Chang, a Chinese American writer has reshaped my view on the atrocities the Japanese soldiers had committed and raises a question: Why we need to remember the past and face it? Remembering history does not just mean to be blocked by the past and stop moving on but looking for the lessons the history has taught us and prevent the world from making the same mistakes again.
Although this book had no major affect on me, I learned how a boy can go through traumatic experiences and still have the will power to keep going on. That was the only thing that really affected me in the whole book.
This is my personal reflection about this book. First and foremost, I would like to say that this book is very thick and long to read. There are about nineteen chapters and 278 pages altogether. As a slow reader, it is a quite hard for me to finish reading it within time. It took me weeks to finish reading it as a whole. Furthermore, it is written in English version. My English is just in average so sometimes I need to refer to dictionary for certain words. Sometimes I use google translate and ask my friends to explain the meaning of certain terms.
Chang, Iris. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. New York: BasicBooks, 1997. Print.
...y. He touched parts of the slaves' lives and what they really went through, but I don't think we even have a true idea of what it would have been in their shoes. The author presented the information in a very solid way and sectioned out very well. I understood what he was trying to explain easily. It was somewhat a long book but very much full of knowledge and history that in spirit is still alive today. We may not have slavery like it was then, but we still deal with racism and prejudices daily. The world changed because of slavery and is the way it is because of the history of America. We cannot change the past but we can change the future. Thank God the world is not the way it was. I cannot imagine what painful lives the slaves had to endure. But we can become knowledgeable about the history of slavery and America and learn from it in many different ways.
Chang, Iris. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. New York, New York:
When I signed up for this course, I had limited knowledge of the holocaust and was not very interested in its history. This course ended up being one of my favorites and the most informational courses that I have taken. Other Political leaders such as Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin had committed mass murders that caused a much higher victim rate than Hitler, so my thoughts were that the holocaust was just another tragedy in human history. This class has given me a different perspective in the way I view the holocaust. It has personalized this horrific event in that it begs a person ask themselves how could this tragedy take place? How come the Jews and the world did not do more to prevent it from happening? The course has spiked my interested in the the holocaust in that I have found that if I come across a holocaust program while watching the television, I will stop to watch that show or read a holocaust article that I would not have read in the past. The four books assigned for reading by Browning, Sierakowiak, Lengyel, and Rajchman expounded on the personalization of the holocaust by giving insight into the experiences of
...y educational, and made me feel so much sadness over the holocaust. It made me pull away with not just a sad story, but also true horror on what has happened so long ago. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is by far the best historical fiction novel I have ever read. In the end, it just makes me happy that times have changed, for the better.
...uses the reader to be more invested in the story and therefore truly strive to understand the world portrayed instead of just shallowly absorbing the setting. This is a strength because it gave the reader unique outlook on the Asian cultures because the audience feels personally involved in these situations. There are a few weaknesses in the book. I think perhaps, by putting the audience in these men’s shoes you cause them develop a bias. The reader will possibly have and emotional tie to the characters and because of this not see straight facts of history. The book is highly recommended to readers interested in pre-modern history, the book is a good look into the eastern world especially if one lacks research experience with that part of the world and its history.