Wiesel however is a young jewish boy who did not know of the horrors that the Nazis brought down upon the jews. When the Germans occupied Wiesel's town, they were nice and compassionate, which lead the citizens to believe that the Germans would not do anything to harm them. While in the concentration camps, Wiesel lost his faith and realized what the world could come to; therefore, he matured extremely quickly. At the end of The Boy in Striped Pajamas, Bruno gets gassed because of one of the gas chambers his father ran. This caused great regret in his father as he now knows that he is responsible for all the jews and his son!
The writer indicates that they put down him because he is short. Gretel shouts at Bruno because he entered her room without knocking, Bruno knows it is bad manners but he was bored and went running in to find her. Gretel uses irony to secretly tell him he is wrong and should leave, he does not understand the irony because he is only 9, which causes Bruno to be confused and stay anyway. Gretel treats Bruno like he is stupid by the way she talks to him; “How would you know? When you get to my age you’ll understand things a lot better.” When Gretel first peered out of Bruno’s bedroom window and sees the Jews, she questions “who are they?” She stood for a long time staring at the people on the other side of the fence then after a while she finally said “this must be the countryside as they must be farmers” For the remainder of the book she no longer asked about or appears to think about the people again.
The excessive control demonstrated by the boys undoubtedly supports the idea that humans are innately evil, and it is also shown in many other ways such as how the boys mistreat each other. The Lord of the Flies proves the point that mankind is evil through the way that the boys mistreat each other. For starters, mistreatment is shown in the very beginning of the book when Jack says to Piggy, “Shut up, fatty!” (Golding 17). Jack is insulting Piggy while many of the boys mistreat and insult each other. Also another example of how mistreatment is shown in the book would be when Samneric betray Ralph.
Hitler captured people in his speeches with his promises of a better Germany, but he also taught his hatred of Jews in the process. “It was Hitler’s belief that the Jews had too much money, land and the power of the press.” (library.thinkquest.org) Hitler caused mass hysteria against Jews by creating this frame of mind that they were the cause of all things bad just like Abigail and her posse did to Salem. Unfortunately, the people who are completely innocent in these cases get punished the most. In both the Salem witch trials and the Holocaust many people were killed who were not
Punisher In the story “An Animal to the Memory”, of David Bezmozgis’ book, Natasha and Other Stories, the reader is presented with a scene in which Rabbi Gurvich attempted to educate Mark Berman on the severity of his actions within the Holocaust memorial in the basement of his Hebrew school. Normally in a scene like this a reader would expect that the older Jew teaching the lesson to have had first hand experience with anti-Semitism and the younger Jew to be completely oblivious to the reality of such acts of violence. However in this unique situation, Bezmozgis decided to reverse those roles. Rabbi Gurvich is shown berating Mark because of his actions, but Bezmozgis does not include what punishment was given to
The sad events of the Holocaust take place, but it is not depicted in the gruesome context as it truly is and was. Although light-hearted, the emotions that were inflicted on the Jews in this movie still came across. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a dark, eerie drama on the Holocaust. It conveys real emotions on both sides of the spectrum,
gretel ditches all her dolls for posters of the war. The flags on the car the fact that bruno thinks that the clothing of the jews are pyjamas shows his innocense. The conversation between bruno and schmall shows his innocense. Brunos facial expression when he finds out that schmall is a jew and how he hurrily left. The mothers concern for gretel being Influenced by the properganda of the nazi the tutor tells bruno that there isnt such thing as a “nice jew” they blame all the nations troubles on the jews when bruno's mother finds out that ralph runs an extermination camp instead of a labour camp she is
This all changed when his father moved Bruno, his mother and sister into an isolated location where Bruno is exposed to a world of hatred and bigotry towards Jews. This picture demonstrates the dogmatic nature of Nazi soldiers.
His innocence and lack of knowledge about what was going on in the concentration camp, lead him to a tragic death. Your book taught me a life lesson that, innocence can lead to tragedy. Your book has made me to recognize that innocence in this case became an ignorance, which lead to tragedy. Bruno was so innocent that he refused to see anything wrong. Even though he witnessed many horrible things, he could not believe in his Father’s true work.
For instance, during the “Week of Peace” Okonkwo came home to find that his second wife had not returned from her friend’s house in time to cook dinner. “When she returned he beat her very heavily. In his anger he had forgotten that it was the Week of Peace” (Achebe29). Beating your wife during the Week of Peace was a huge sin to the clan. Okonkwo let his anger get the best of him and violated the code of the Ibo people.