Antisemitism

The Devil’s Arithmetic, ADD jews to camps, SUBTRACT them from societies lives, MULTIPLY the Jewish problems, DIVIDE the existence of the Jewish population. Every kind of person Adolf Hitler hated when found, would have been tossed into a concentration camp. Those camps and facilities brutalized and shaped the survivors of the Holocaust the people know today. The novel of The Devil’s Arithmetic helps the world remember those events, more than the movie, from its describing of the choosing's,…

The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus that was written in 1947, two years after the end of World War II. Through close analysis of its formal qualities it is evident that the text can be read in three different ways. Literally, as a narrative of a pestilence, as a historic allegory of German occupation of France during World War II, and finally, as a presentation of a metaphysical problem, evil. However, this essay will discuss the literal and allegorical readings of the novel. The Plague can…

Khensane Mawela MYP English 10F Mrs. Jennifer Hunter 08 December 2015 Literary Analysis of Night by Elie Wiesel Horrific events like the Holocaust need to be remembered as long as history doesn’t find a way of repeating itself. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, 12 year old Eliezer has been removed from the house he grew up in, in Transylvanian town, to ghettos and different concentration camps. Eliezer’s story takes place in Germany during the 1940s. In this autobiography, Eliezer’s character is…

Compare the ways prejudice is shown in ‘An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley and ‘Of Mice and Men’ by John Steinbeck. By Lauren McMillan In this assessment I will be showing the prejudice that is shown in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and ‘Of Mice and Men’. Prejudice is a form of hate shown mainly towards groups of people for no reason other than, the colour of their skin or their genders, etc. Prejudice has caused mass oppression in different cultures and cities e.g. human slavery and racist…

In the book The Hiding Place, by Corrie Ten Boom, the reader journeys through the events that unfolded during the holocaust from the perspective of a Catholic. Corrie Ten Boom may not have fallen victim to the Germans, but she definitely didn't agree with how the Germans were treating the Jews. Despite it being against the law, the Ten Boom family decided to lie in order to keep the Jews safe. In this case it is just to lie in because they are lying for the greater good of saving lives. When…

Objectivity vs. Subjectivity in The Holocaust Museum Article The Holocaust was one of if not the most horrific set of events in human history. Jews were taken against their will by the Nazi party and forced into small concentration camps and ghettos. Over six million jews were killed before the Americans liberated the camps and the Jews were set free. In the article The Holocaust Museum by David Oliver Relin it shows many different objective and subjective key points. The objective evidence…

I n the essay, the author introduced Heart of Darkness in a different way where he compared it to the Holocaust. The were many problems that were discussed throughout the essay that need to be fixed in our society. Problems like prophecy, silence, death, dictatorships, and darkness took a big place in our history. Many of those problems were and are still caused due to bad influenced dictatorship in our world. The paper talked about many ideas throughout it. There were three main…

Elie Wiesel published Night in 1955. This book is his testimony to the awful situations he and millions others had to encounter. Eliezer is a devout Jew at a young age. His conviction is flipped upside down when the Nazis enter his life, and he believes God walked out. In Night, Wiesel uses Eliezer to depict how his once unconditional faith is shaken down to nonexistence during the Holocaust. Before Eliezer’s living nightmare reigns down, he is dedicated to his religion. At twelve years old, he…

“As my eyes became accustomed to the dark, I saw strewn around the living room in a rough circle the decayed bodies of a man, a woman and two children, stark white bone poking through the desiccated, leather-like covering that had once been skin.” In his book Shake Hands with the Devil, Roméo Dallaire paints a heartrending image of his involvement as a high-ranking general stationed in Rwanda during the Rwandan genocide. Vivid firsthand descriptions evoke emotions of sadness, pity, and anger…

Forgiving people is a significant action that everyone does for their mistakes, but should it really be a responsibility to forgive people? For instance, people can use the Holocaust as an example because it was the mass slaughter of European civilians done by the Nazis, and lots of peoples family members had died there. If people were apart of the Holocaust would they want to be one to forgive someone else who was a worker there? Well, in ‘’It’s For You to Know That You Forgive’’ , Holocaust…