The themes that occur every day and in the novel “Destroying Avalon” and the film “The Colour Purple” are death/loss, bullying and relationships. Death/loss is something that occurs every day in society and people must overcome it to move on with their lives. Death is an equaliser to mankind regardless of our social structure, we all view death as a sadness because it is the end of our physical relationships. However the death of a young person is what creates the most despair for those who are left behind. For example in “Destroying Avalon” Avalon had to face the death of her best friend Marshall who took his own life because of being bullied for so many years and not letting anyone to support him through his tough times.
The death camps were mentally inhumane on the prisoners; especially during the first few days because most inmates had some to all of their family taken away and killed. The camps tore families apart and people watched as their loved ones left to be killed. Elie Wiesel talks about the last time he saw his mother and sister and how when he left the train he and the others were forced into groups with, “‘Men to the left! Women to the right’ Eight words spoken quietly in differently, without emotion. Eight simple short words, yet that was the moment when I left my mother… I didn’t know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever” (Wiesel 29).
Azeem Ahmed 5/8 B/D Sunday, March 30, 2014 S.S-8 Wetzel Remembering the Holocaust – Summary – Sonia Aronowitz Goldstein When one person tries to eliminate an entire race some people shall contribute but the rest shall over power him and avenge all the fallen lives that were lost by his madness. This has happened in human history before by the man named Adolf Hitler. What this man caused was called the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the persecution and murder of approximately eleven million people in which, approximately six million were Jews, and five million were other innocent humans by the Nazi and their collaborators. There are still some Holocaust survivors in this world not a lot though and so one very special guest came to speak to Washingtonville Middle School’s students and parents.
In memoirs of survivors, we learned that they were separated from their families, stripped of their possessions, clothing and cut off their hair. Those not capable of laboring such as elderly and children were sent to gas chambers. Those able to work lived in conditions not fit for an animal, and were starved daily. Families were destroyed and future generations were affected. In today’s world the biggest act of dehumanization is the tens of thousands of children that have been taken away from their families to become soldiers.
She watched hangings and group suicides that were too graphic to describe. She had to endure the odor of burning and decomposing bodies, gas chambers and crematoriums in full operation. For five long years she eye witnessed unreasonable beatings and starvation. She saw mothers with their dead babies in their arms who were not allowed to bury them. Their little bodies were eventually thrown in a big pile as if they were a piece of garbage.
SS doctor Rosenthal aborted by force the women who were pregnant. About every two weeks, women who were ill or weak were selected for the "transport to Mittweida". To find out who were too weak, the prisoners had to lift their skirts above their hips and run in front of the SS guards and doctors. If they had swollen feet, scars, injuries, or couldn't run, they were selected for a period of "recovery" in Uckermark. This period consisted of being trapped in sealed barracks, without food or
Anastasia Toth History 295 Holocaust: Final Solution Book Review: Witness to the Holocaust Witness to the Holocaust is an emotional journey, one made even more impactful because section one covers the people who were in the camps. These were the people, who saw the most death and destruction of their families. It is such a vivid description of ugly that I had to put it down on a couple of occasions and reset myself. It was almost too painful to take in, all the horror, that these survivors with stood. Take the works of Sam Bankhalter and what he said, “Once you start fighting for your life, all the ethics were gone.
Night a modern day Book of Job In Night, the author Eli Wiesel shares his most personal memories of the Holocaust. Where he experienced directly and during which he lost all of his family and many friends. The occurrence of incomparable evil perpetrated by the Germans against the Jews ruined Eli’s hopefulness and his belief in the natural goodness of human beings. Although he could have held on to that view throughout the remainder of his life, Night ultimately shows how Wiesel was eventually able to restore hope and optimism and belief in others and to live with the enormous burden of pain that he carries. Many of the memoirs of the Holocaust such as have this same tone throughout them.
INTRODUCTION Death inevitably affected the living; this can be seen in the graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman. Maus is a biography of a Holocaust survivor, Vladek Spiegelman who is also the father of the author. So, what is the Holocaust? Well, it is a systemic murder where 11 million people across Europe died. However, Spiegelman only focused on a few deaths to let the reader have an insight on how death of loved ones affected Holocaust survivors.
(See "Alternative Books.") Plot Summary Fourteen year old Celie has led a very rough life. Her mother is very sick, and when she goes to visit the doctor Celie is left alone with her father, Fonso. While the mother is gone, Fonso rapes Celie. Celie's mother dies soon after and now Fonso rapes Celie more and more often, saying "You gonna do what your mammy wouldn't" (p. 1).