Connections across Texts:
Discrimination and Genocide within societies
Discrimination towards specific societies is a theme most often evident in modern day media as an issue to start debate. Racism, genocide, gender inequality and religious prejudices all exist within many popular and critically acclaimed texts. The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, Montana 1948, First Native and Pink Pig, and Fruitvale Station, all revolve around this theme and together have connections between one another as conflicts between societies arouse. The official English dictionary defines genocide as the ‘deliberate killing of a very large number of people from a particular ethnic group or nation.’ It’s also described as a Holocaust. Holocaust is the great or complete …show more content…
The Nazi’s regime and their quest for genocide towards the Jews is the basis of the text The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, an example of this Jew eradication. Shmuel and Bruno, the main protagonists in the text both die as a result of this undertaking, Bruno collateral damage however. Bruno 's father, a high ranking Nazi moves out into the countryside along with his family to oversee one of the concentration camps that the Jews reside in, captive. Bruno being a young boy yearns to go exploring, something advised for him not to do by his parents. He ends up escaping and goes out exploring towards the "farm", his father 's explanation of the camp Bruno can see from his bedroom. Upon reaching said camp he sees a small boy of his age shut up behind the barbed fence. This boy, Shmuel befriends Bruno and they often see each other in the coming weeks. Bruno brings food to the malnourished Shmuel and they converse about life in the camp. Bruno and his desire soon get the better of him and he schemes with Shmuel for Bruno to enter the camp. Shmuel goes about preparing the standard uniform for Bruno and they plan to investigate on the morrow. Bruno now undercover enters under the fence and has Shmuel take him on a tour of the camp. They along with the rest of the Jews under lock and key are …show more content…
Together, along with another neutral friend they see a western movie, Cowboys vs. Indians style. Upon arriving back home, the mother of the birthday boy, George, asks what the movie was about. George begins to explain but is then interrupted by Michael, the Pakeha boy. He then decides to tell the story as if one side overpowered the other, foreshadowing of the things to come at the party. In reality the movie was about a treaty made by the two parties as an effort of racial equality. Michael 's comments indicate that he feels differently in conflicts between races, one supreme over the other. Later on when George is playing with his presents Michael asks to use it. Due to the tension between the two George is reluctant but adheres to Michael 's request. Michael throws the glider and then breaks it. George breaks down and Michael begins to rant about how he expected no more than a shambles of the party due to George being Maori. Michael’s expectations of a bad party with poor conditions were dashed to begin with as the house that George and Co lives in is not of a poor quality. The racial prejudices that Michael follows are of the kind that discriminate against race, racism. The belief of racial inequality is racism, something most often present in the modern day society. The treating of races
Discrimination and Genocide within societies
Discrimination towards specific societies is a theme most often evident in modern day media as an issue to start debate. Racism, genocide, gender inequality and religious prejudices all exist within many popular and critically acclaimed texts. The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, Montana 1948, First Native and Pink Pig, and Fruitvale Station, all revolve around this theme and together have connections between one another as conflicts between societies arouse. The official English dictionary defines genocide as the ‘deliberate killing of a very large number of people from a particular ethnic group or nation.’ It’s also described as a Holocaust. Holocaust is the great or complete …show more content…
The Nazi’s regime and their quest for genocide towards the Jews is the basis of the text The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, an example of this Jew eradication. Shmuel and Bruno, the main protagonists in the text both die as a result of this undertaking, Bruno collateral damage however. Bruno 's father, a high ranking Nazi moves out into the countryside along with his family to oversee one of the concentration camps that the Jews reside in, captive. Bruno being a young boy yearns to go exploring, something advised for him not to do by his parents. He ends up escaping and goes out exploring towards the "farm", his father 's explanation of the camp Bruno can see from his bedroom. Upon reaching said camp he sees a small boy of his age shut up behind the barbed fence. This boy, Shmuel befriends Bruno and they often see each other in the coming weeks. Bruno brings food to the malnourished Shmuel and they converse about life in the camp. Bruno and his desire soon get the better of him and he schemes with Shmuel for Bruno to enter the camp. Shmuel goes about preparing the standard uniform for Bruno and they plan to investigate on the morrow. Bruno now undercover enters under the fence and has Shmuel take him on a tour of the camp. They along with the rest of the Jews under lock and key are …show more content…
Together, along with another neutral friend they see a western movie, Cowboys vs. Indians style. Upon arriving back home, the mother of the birthday boy, George, asks what the movie was about. George begins to explain but is then interrupted by Michael, the Pakeha boy. He then decides to tell the story as if one side overpowered the other, foreshadowing of the things to come at the party. In reality the movie was about a treaty made by the two parties as an effort of racial equality. Michael 's comments indicate that he feels differently in conflicts between races, one supreme over the other. Later on when George is playing with his presents Michael asks to use it. Due to the tension between the two George is reluctant but adheres to Michael 's request. Michael throws the glider and then breaks it. George breaks down and Michael begins to rant about how he expected no more than a shambles of the party due to George being Maori. Michael’s expectations of a bad party with poor conditions were dashed to begin with as the house that George and Co lives in is not of a poor quality. The racial prejudices that Michael follows are of the kind that discriminate against race, racism. The belief of racial inequality is racism, something most often present in the modern day society. The treating of races