In October, Gerda’s brother Arthur, was forced to leave with a Nazi and all of the other young men in town. Gerda never sees him again, but she got letters from him throughout alot of the war. The situation becomes more and more severe for the Jews, as the Aryan neighbors take advantage of the situation by
The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our heart. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in war” (87-88). Paul was living life as a civilian for eighteen years, not knowing the horrors of the world, and as a young adult in the war, he witnessed his first horror, such as his first bombing, his first explosion, first exposure to numerous of dead bodies etc, which will traumatize him in future civilian life since one does not simply forget the first raw, gory images. The age of eighteen can be considered the age of a young adult that is still growing and experiencing life, and when teengaers are thrown into the abyss of war, it prevents young soldiers from striving and progressing; as being an adult is heavily weighed on an adolescent
The Fallen by Laurence Binyon and The Soldier by Rupert Brooke are two poems with several similarities, though they are not without their differences either. Both poems are about World War One and the death of those involved. The Soldier, which focuses mainly on imagery of landscapes, while The Fallen focuses more on the imagery of the people in the war. The content of both the poems is the way in which death caused by war is dealt with. The difference is that The Soldier is set before anyone has died, and The Fallen is set after many have been killed.
‘The Book Thief’ and the ‘Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ The Book Thief focuses on a 12 year old girl, Liesel and her family who are living in Germany during World War Two. When her family takes in Max, a Jewish man that is hiding from the Nazi Soldiers, Liesel’s life is turned upside down as she struggles to keep her family’s secret and to find a place in her new world. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is also set during World War Two. It follows the story of Bruno, a young boy whose father is a Commander General of a Nazi Concentration Camp. With nothing to do, he explores and finds Shmuel, a Jewish boy that is being held in the camp.
Some say that the soldiers' immune systems were weakened by malnourishment. The influenza pandemic circled the globe. Most All of these illnesses were the main cause of torture that the soldiers of World War I had to go through and were mainly caused by the life in the trenches. Trench foot and Trench fever were something more usual in the life of war. Unlike The Spanish influenza, which had more serious side effects.
Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front very much achieves its goal to “try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.” Remarque goes to great lengths to show how the men in his novel came from ordinary backgrounds. These were men who were for the most part around 18-20 years old. The majority of Paul Bäumer’s group were his own classmates in school. Further, these men joined the German Army for patriotic and nationalist reasons. After spending some time in the trenches, they realized the true brutality of war, including the humiliation the soldiers must endure, such as using outdoor toilets in the open.
In Elie Wiesel's book Night, he is an innocent teenager, a child, whose innocence was taken from him as a result of the awful things that Hitler did in World War Two. In children and young adults who survived the holocaust in concentration camps, their innocence was lost as soon as they walked through the gates into captivity. This will be proven by discussing the loss of faith, family, and the cruelty of the Nazis toward the Jewish people during WWII in the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. Before Elie was forced into a concentration camp, he was a young and innocent child focused on his faith from birth. He was a strong believer in Judaism, and even studied mysticism and the texts of their sacred scriptures.
When he returns, he tells the villagers about how he has miraculously escaped from his torturers. The villagers and Elie don’t believe Moishe the Beadle’s story and think that he is delusional. As time goes on, the treatment of the Jews is getting worse and worse. Soon after the started moving and shipping of train car loads of Jews. Elie, his father, his sister and his mother were innocently arrested.
Everlasting Love “Choose this day whom you will serve...” The Bronze Bow is set in Roman-occupied Israel during the time of Jesus. Eighteen-year-old Daniel bar Jamin is living in the hills above Galilee when he receives a message about his dying grandmother. Because of this unfortunate message, Daniel returns to the village. At the young age of eight, Daniel witnessed the crucifixion of his father by the Romans. He has hatred against the Romans that governs his entire life.
Just prior to this passage, Death describes how Rudy Steiner dies at the end of the book. Marcus Zusak's employment of foreshadowing places emphasis on the events in Nazi Germany that lead the characters to their ends. 7. "There were the erased pages of Mein Kampf, gagging, suffocating under the paint as they turned." (237) Max whitewashes, a brief retelling of his life, his family's persecution by the Nazis, and his friendship with Liesel.