Genesis And Catastrophe- A True Story

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Genesis and Catastrophe- A True Story Genesis and Catastrophe: A True Story by Rauld Dahl In this short story there is a woman, Klara, who has just given birth to a baby boy. She cries when she sees him because he is small and sickly looking. She tells the doctor that the baby boy must live because she has already lost her last three children. She tells how her husband is a mean drunk and fears what he will do if the baby doesn’t live. Her husband comes storming into the room disoriented and drunk, asking for his son. He comments that the baby is frail and weak looking but the doctor assures him the baby is healthy and Klara cries. She starts to beg for God’s mercy to let her son live. This is the point where her husband reveals the baby’s name: Adolf Hitler. The intention of the story is to make you feel sympathy for the woman. Rauld Dahl describes in detail the way she cries and begs for her son’s health and the way her husband treats her so coldly, By the end of the short story you can’t feel anything but hope for this little baby and pity for the woman. Once Rauld Dahl reveals that the baby is Hitler, a Nazi politician who killed thousands of people, you’re not sure what to feel. You want so badly for the baby to live but then you find out it’s a man who is responsible for the pain and suffering of numerous people and you wonder if maybe it is better off if the baby dies or never is born at all. In this age, many people don’t make decisions based on what they believe. They go along with what their friends think and aren’t really opinionated. I like this story because it forces you to make a decision: should the baby live or die? It shows you both sides of the argument and you choose what you think is morally correct. Even if this doesn’t seem like a story you would like, maybe there’s someone you know who doesn’t form their
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