Examples Of Social Injustice In If You Come Softly

Social Injustice has been going on for several years and some say it is only getting worse. It can make a big impact on one’s feelings and can cause them to feel humiliated for who they are. In the book If You Come Softly, a character named Jeremiah continuously felt pessimistic because of how people were treating him due to his skin color. People constantly treated him differently than everyone else because he did not look the same as the rest. In the books, Sarah’s Key and Chains social injustice demonstrated one feeling ashamed of themselves. In Sarah’s Key, since Sarah was Jewish she was dealt with differently then people who were not. In the book, If You Come Softly, Sarah’s Key and Chains all showed how Social injustice can lead to …show more content…
Sarah was Jewish and was taken by the French to a concentration camp. The French had made all the Jews feel terrible about themselves and some even hurt themselves. When Sarah was sitting with her family in the camp she had seen someone jump off of a building holding her child tightly as her head split open. “But she had seen. She knew what is was. A young woman, her mother’s age, and a small child. The woman had jumped, her child held close from the highest railing” (Rosnay 32-33). This showed that because of the women’s religion other people caused her to hurt herself because they punished her and thousands of others for it. Similarly to when the when the women had felt badly of herself was when Sarah was feeling terrible because of how the concentration camp had caused her to feel differently. The day of the roundup to the concentration camp she left her brother locked in a closet, thinking he would be safe. Also, that she would be back the next day. She was unaware of the French keeping the Jews for so long. When Sarah lost track of time she knew she had to save her brother but the only way to get out was escaping the camp. Fortunately, she escaped and found a family that took her on train to Paris. She had finally arrived in Paris and found a new family living in her apartment and her dead brother sitting in the same position she had left him at the bottom of the closet. “That night, and many nights after, I kept seeing the dead boy. I had nightmares. They lasted till well into my twenties” (Rosnay 164). Sarah continued to put herself down and feel so stupid for not knowing. Furthermore, Sarah never forgave herself and continued to carry the weight of leaving her to die on her. “It took me while to get used to this new part of me. To understand and accept my mother’s history. To deal with the pain of it. Sometimes I still