Short Story Essay On Leon

Leon is a ten year old boy, who lives in a poor family. They live in a ghetto, where they were placed because they were Jewish. They wore bad, poor clothes, because they don’t have much money left; remnant coins left. His parents spent all their money on food, now they’re fighting starvation. Leon’s mom does her best to wash their old poor clothing every day; keep her family clean, ordinarily, they only have one thing to wear every day. Back then Leon’s dad used to be a proper man that everyone in the town they lived in knew; moreover, everyone knew that the guy that comes to town dressed in a nice suit, tall, proper is Leon’s dad. Now he is weak, has wrinkles, poor, nothing like he was before. When the family lived in their town before the war started, Leon was ominous about the future. The Gestapo said a lot of rude things and called them grotesque; before worst things started happening, even though the family was naive and did nothing wrong; always did what they were told to do. The Gestapo was Nazi internal security police; bunch of young 18-19 year old men. They ransacked through the apartments where Jewish families lived and took Leon’s dad one day. So then the mother had …show more content…
Not all the jews had dark hair, and not all polish or german people had blue eyes and blonde hair. They were also discriminated because of their religion. Lions family spoke Jewish. They also spoke a little bit of german and polish; wich helped them survive later on. Everyaday lion went to Jewish school called ‘Hiburat’ Lion used to learn Hebrew when he used to go to their jewish part of a school day. In Jewish culture, when they all get together for the holidays they have to answer ten questions in Hebrew. Things come and go in the world. Empires fall, fads fade away, technology changes. It may be hard to picture, but things we can’t imagine living without will eventually