Peter Marshall, an American television and radio personality, singer, and actor once said, “If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.” Peter Marshall is correct in saying this because people should stand up for what they really believe in and not what the community believes. If a community is doing something bad and individuals follow and support them even if they know it is wrong then it can be damaging to the person and also to the world. If the community is doing something that an individual believes is wrong, that individual must not follow them but instead he must stand up and say that what they are doing is not right. People tend to follow big groups of people since they are usually intimidated by them, only the courageous
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Both the seal and the Jew are heading right towards their death and they know that they are going to die. The Nazis made all the captured Jews, including Max Vandenburg, march through the center of town to a concentration camp. During the parade, Germans would watch them suffer and laugh at them. Every time there was a parade Liesel would always go and try to find Max but she never did until one parade. Liesel saw Max and sprung towards him, the Nazis then tortured her for approaching a Jew, “he dragged the girl to the side and flung her into the wall of onlooking Germans. The girl had landed sprawling with pain, but now she stood again” (Zusak, 511). The author shows the reader that Liesel really wants to talk to Max even though society does not want anyone approaching or even talking to a Jew. Liesel has the inner strength to do what she wants to do, which is to see and talk to Max even though it can result in external “pain”. When she goes to talk to Max society throws her back down Liesel “stood again”. Liesel is literally standing up for what she believes even though the Nazis do not believe the same thing that she does. If Liesel did what the community believed was right she would stand back and watch Max suffer and the innocent Jews walk towards their graves. Liesel literally stands up and does what she got whipped for even though she knew she would get “dragged” back down by society and its beliefs. Liesel stands up for her believes and not for the communities beliefs. Harper Lee also illustrates this in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by showing Atticus Finch defending Tom Robinson, a black man during the most brutal times of racial
Both the seal and the Jew are heading right towards their death and they know that they are going to die. The Nazis made all the captured Jews, including Max Vandenburg, march through the center of town to a concentration camp. During the parade, Germans would watch them suffer and laugh at them. Every time there was a parade Liesel would always go and try to find Max but she never did until one parade. Liesel saw Max and sprung towards him, the Nazis then tortured her for approaching a Jew, “he dragged the girl to the side and flung her into the wall of onlooking Germans. The girl had landed sprawling with pain, but now she stood again” (Zusak, 511). The author shows the reader that Liesel really wants to talk to Max even though society does not want anyone approaching or even talking to a Jew. Liesel has the inner strength to do what she wants to do, which is to see and talk to Max even though it can result in external “pain”. When she goes to talk to Max society throws her back down Liesel “stood again”. Liesel is literally standing up for what she believes even though the Nazis do not believe the same thing that she does. If Liesel did what the community believed was right she would stand back and watch Max suffer and the innocent Jews walk towards their graves. Liesel literally stands up and does what she got whipped for even though she knew she would get “dragged” back down by society and its beliefs. Liesel stands up for her believes and not for the communities beliefs. Harper Lee also illustrates this in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by showing Atticus Finch defending Tom Robinson, a black man during the most brutal times of racial