Examples Of Heroism In The Holocaust

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There are many similarities between the character in my holocaust novel and my resilient hero novel. In my holocaust novel, my character faces many challenges, she was living in the time of the holocaust, which was a very bad time for jews. Both of the characters in my novel study (Ender’s Game) and (Number The Stars) took very different paths to display heroic actions, one path being he actually had to work to be a hero by helping other people. The other path being that she never gave up on herself and always believed through all the criticism and anti semitic people that were trying to kill every jew in the world that she could make it through the holocaust and that it will eventually end.

My character in my holocaust novel shows heroism

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