In the movie, the father Guido and his son Giosué are taken by Nazis. Instead of Guido telling his son, the truth he tells Giosué "You have to score one thousand points. If you do that, you take home a tank with a big gun" (Life is Beautiful). This technique saves Giosué during the Holocaust for a couple reasons. The first reason is that Giosué was more worried about winning the game then he was on staying alive because he did not think about the possibility that he could be killed.
Reb Saunders uses the silent parenting style on Danny, where he only speaks to him while studying religion. When Reuven and Danny become friends, Danny is being forced into being a rabbi, like his father, although he desires to become a psychologist. Reuven helps Danny to break away from what his father wants and realize his own dream of studying psychology. When Reuven helps a fly escape from a spider’s web, it is symbolic of him helping Danny escape the web of his father. When viewed from this perspective, Reuven could be considered “chosen” to be the one that liberates
Seger compares this to a death experience and how it often leads to a rebirth of the character. He has to put the dream of being an Italian-like cyclist in the coffin, and have a mourning experience so Dave can move on with the rest of his life. Dave realizes that he_ can_compete with the college guys. He has passed the college entrance exam and he doesn’t have to walk around the buildings his father’s generation built, he can enter them, “seize the sword and take possession of the treasure that is inside” (Seger 359) and realize that he is in charge of his future. He has not completed his journey, but he is on his way to a new journey, the real journeyof breaking away and becoming an adult.
In “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”, Herman shows a form of silence when Bruno’s parents try to hide the facts about the reality of the Holocaust from him. Bruno is an eight year old German boy who is naïve about the war against the Jews. When he ventures out into the woods behind the house, he meets a Jewish boy, Shmuel. However, Bruno doesn’t know that they shouldn’t be friends because his parents have hidden the fact that the Jewish were their “enemies”. Not knowing that their friendship was forbidden, he gives Shmuel a piece of bread while Shmuel is cleaning the glasses.
“The yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You don’t die of it…” (Wiesel 9). Here, Elie’s father shows that he thinks wearing a yellow star has no importance. The star itself doesn’t kill the Jews, but since it is a symbol of their Jewish background they are sent to the death and concentration camps where they eventually die.
They knew God would lead them though anything they need when they got into trouble. Chapter 9- this is the day that the whole family has always feared. A man tricked Corrie into helping him but he was actually a German. They were taken to Gestapo, the first concentration camp the were held. God showed Corrie this in a dream, she didn’t regret helping the jews at all.
His father’s commitments to the community, did not give him much time for his family. That did not stop Elie from looking up to his father who is a respected member of the Jewish community in Sighet. His father thought that Elie was too young to study mysticism, that did not stop him from studying. The relationship between Elie and his father, Chlomo, changed from a normal father and son relationship at the beginning of the book to a very close relationship at the death camp, they were inseparable. They would support each other as to go on living and working, but this relationship transforms as the two go through more and more situations.
In spite of his youth, the Jewish Elie was eager to study the Talmud and Cabbala. His father, however, thinks Elie is too young for such advanced subjects and refuses to find him a teacher. As a result, Elie turns to Moshe the Beadle for guidance. One day Moshe is arrested by the Nazis. When he returns, he tells the villagers about how he has miraculously escaped from his torturers.
Where as all the nosey neighbors quickly interfere with phone calls and tea parties, Edward soon becomes a walking celebrity as he dazzles them with his talent on making there gardens, dogs and selves stunning with his hands, his scissorhands. Fame doesn’t change Edward as a person. He remains his self-conscious, loving self and through the blur of change he falls in love with Mrs. Bogg’s beautiful and delicate daughter, Kim (Winona Ryder). ‘Edward Scissorhands’ may have a tale of the original ‘Frankenstein’ but in my mind it has a twist of ‘Beauty and the Beast’. Unfortunately, not everything can go well for to long, Kim’s threatened boyfriend, Jim (Anthony Michael Hall) causes trouble for Edward and a gossiping neighbor goes to far and rumors fly through the roof.
45-58 Annotation: Biff Lowman looks to his father for moral support and guidance, but instead finds his father cheating. Willy Loman refuses to admit he was wrong, and Biff is left with out a solid foundation for moral values. Weales, Gerald Clifford, ed. Arthur Miller Death of a salesman, text and criticism. New York: Penguin Books, 1977.