Tyranny, repression, persecution these are all synonyms of oppression. Oppression is the prolonged unjust treatment of an individual or group because of one’s prejudice. To further explain oppression, John Steinbeck’s The Pearl, The Diary of Anne Frank, and the censorship enforced in China will be discussed so the consequences of this problem can be understood. Cultural and socioeconomic oppression is something that many groups of people in all sorts of societies have dealt with and many still experience to this day.
In The Diary of Anne Frank, Hitler oppresses the Jews and Christians because he doesn’t agree with their culture and religions and he and his administration believed that they were inferior and were the source of all problems in Germany and around the world. Jews in Germany and in places conquered by the Nazis had their belongings taken and were forced into either concentration camps or ghettos. Since young Anne and her family were Jewish they were forced into hiding, which was the outcome of being oppressed. Her, those in the annex, and the minorities in Germany were …show more content…
For example, when Juno, Kino’s son, is bitten by a scorpion and taken to the doctor, the doctor denies them service because they are poor, people of the doctor’s race has had many problems with people of Kino’s race, and since Kino is uneducated because he did not go to school. Like what happened to the Jews and Christians in The Diary of Anne Frank, Kino and his family were oppressed into ghettos and out of the main part of his society and they weren’t treated the same as the other people in the city, but this time it’s because of Kino and his family’s wealth and social status. The lesson here is that Kino cannot buy happiness for his family with the pearl he uncovered because of the oppression that had been bestowed on
In The Diary of Anne Frank, Hitler oppresses the Jews and Christians because he doesn’t agree with their culture and religions and he and his administration believed that they were inferior and were the source of all problems in Germany and around the world. Jews in Germany and in places conquered by the Nazis had their belongings taken and were forced into either concentration camps or ghettos. Since young Anne and her family were Jewish they were forced into hiding, which was the outcome of being oppressed. Her, those in the annex, and the minorities in Germany were …show more content…
For example, when Juno, Kino’s son, is bitten by a scorpion and taken to the doctor, the doctor denies them service because they are poor, people of the doctor’s race has had many problems with people of Kino’s race, and since Kino is uneducated because he did not go to school. Like what happened to the Jews and Christians in The Diary of Anne Frank, Kino and his family were oppressed into ghettos and out of the main part of his society and they weren’t treated the same as the other people in the city, but this time it’s because of Kino and his family’s wealth and social status. The lesson here is that Kino cannot buy happiness for his family with the pearl he uncovered because of the oppression that had been bestowed on