Homo sapiens - our species is the same everywhere regardless of skin color, country of birth, religion, food habits, or accents. Human Race however varies. An Indian looks different than a Nigerian. Race is defined by a group of people of common ancestry, distinguished from others by physical characteristics, such as hair type, color of eyes and skin, stature, etc. (thefreedictionary.com). For centuries, crime and hate has been waged between races. Human rights were created to provide all human beings with basic rights (The United Nations art. 21.3). Human rights were created for humans to be protected from other humans. The Universal Declaration of Human rights was created in 1945 after World War II (Lamsal.). Nazis were responsible for death
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One night everyone stopped in a church to seek shelter from the cold. The prisoners stayed in a church and members of the SS stayed near-by in the priest 's house. That night the Allies came and air raided the church where the prisoners were staying. The church caught on fire and most of the people inside were burned to death (Schlink 39). As a result, two of the survivors of the bombing are taking five members of the SS to court for allowing the death of the prisoners. The survivors claim the SS could let everyone out of the church before they were burned to death (Schlink 40). During the trial, the judge focused on facts written in a report about the incident. Hanna admits to writing the information in the report because she does not want to take a hand writing test. She would rather have the judge believe she wrote the report, than have everyone know that she could not read or write (Schlink 45). Hanna is sentenced to life in jail, mainly because of her claim that she wrote the report. Although in reality she didn’t but that’s not the case here, what matters that she is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of prisoners that night. This part of the story creates sympathy for Hanna. While Hanna was not fully responsible for writing the report, she was one of the reasons for the deaths. Her not wanting to show her illiteracy and taking the blame makes the readers feel sorry for her but at the end of the day she was still responsible for the deaths that night and caused human right
One night everyone stopped in a church to seek shelter from the cold. The prisoners stayed in a church and members of the SS stayed near-by in the priest 's house. That night the Allies came and air raided the church where the prisoners were staying. The church caught on fire and most of the people inside were burned to death (Schlink 39). As a result, two of the survivors of the bombing are taking five members of the SS to court for allowing the death of the prisoners. The survivors claim the SS could let everyone out of the church before they were burned to death (Schlink 40). During the trial, the judge focused on facts written in a report about the incident. Hanna admits to writing the information in the report because she does not want to take a hand writing test. She would rather have the judge believe she wrote the report, than have everyone know that she could not read or write (Schlink 45). Hanna is sentenced to life in jail, mainly because of her claim that she wrote the report. Although in reality she didn’t but that’s not the case here, what matters that she is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of prisoners that night. This part of the story creates sympathy for Hanna. While Hanna was not fully responsible for writing the report, she was one of the reasons for the deaths. Her not wanting to show her illiteracy and taking the blame makes the readers feel sorry for her but at the end of the day she was still responsible for the deaths that night and caused human right