Internments

The Holocaust was horrible and many authors have written books or articles about it. However what was the point that they were trying to get across? In The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen a girl named Hannah gets sent from present day New Rochelle, AMerica to 1946 Poland. She then has to figure out whether this is reality or if New Rochelle is reality. Another novel is The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne where a young boys father is sent to be commandant at Auschwitz where he makes a…

All throughout history, the inability to learn from one’s mistakes has led to great disasters. An example of those in history ignoring the result of another’s actions, can be found when comparing Nazi Germany concentration camps and North Korean Internment camps. Although these two types of camps were created around the same time, Nazi camps were liberated unlike North Korean camps that still occur in present times. These camps both used fear in their rule, propaganda for control, and executed…

In Dear Miss Breed, Louise Ogawa, a Japanese prisoner in an internment camp, wrote to Ms.Breed about how it is to live in the camp. She describes the conditions but in the end of the letter she says,"If American soldiers can endure hardships so can we!". With this she is saying that even in these conditions, American…

In his immediate family he feels shame placed upon him from his father and brothers due to his sexuality tarnishing their good family name. His family decides not to talk about the subject of his homosexuality and instead pretend as if his internment didn’t happen. His extended relatives make him the butt of humiliating jokes and his godfather eventually disinherits him because of his sexuality. Later on in his life Pierre took a wife, and they had three children, two sons and a daughter. Pierre…

paragraph four of Louise Ogawa’s letter she wrote, “This trip has made me realize the wonderful work of nature. Her delicate work in shaping the stone mountains the beautiful coloring of the surroundings…” (Ogawa 4). When traveling to the Poston internment camp, Louise focused on the beauty of the scenery around her which made her see joy where the others did not. Thinking about other things can give people hope and time to reflect on what’s going on. On page 508 of the Anne Frank play, Anne…

unfamiliar to them. This sense of xenophobia is prevalent across world history, often characterized by implementation of racialized discriminatory immigration practices. In this essay, I am going to compare and contrast the history of the Japanese internment in the United States during WWII with recent European Union processes. In 1942, President Roosevelt executed an enforced relocation of Japanese citizens and immigrants, which lasted for four years. It was officially declared as an authorized…

“The boy in the striped pajamas” film, was released on November 7, 2008 directed by Mark Herman. It that took place during the year 1942 in germany. The film is a about the relationship between a german boy and a Jewishjewish boy that becomebecame very close friends. There is symbolism and irony involved in the film. In the story Bruno is the main character the person that helps us understand the film. The overall description is about how in the pastback in time, german soldiers treated Jjews…

No one is willing to say love is a torture; people only talk about how wonderful it is. However, in many cases, love is also painful. Sometime the person who makes you the happiest is the person who can hurt you the most. The German film Phoenix told us about an absurd love story. In this film, love becomes more complicated because it went through the extreme difficulties, such as death, betrayal, selfishness and greed. The heroine Nelly Lenz went through all the difficulties and survived in the…

when the executive shows up, what he doesn’t realize is, I’m actually debriefing him on behalf of a competitor.” He speaks with pride knowing that he is a spy, taking pride in his profession. From the public’s perspective, he is a harmless job interviewer, but from the private image of who actually is, Barry has an ulterior motive that ultimately benefits himself. He throws away the feelings of the people he is “interviewing”, and thinks only of the greater reward he will receive. “I don’t feel…

Indifferences and their Destructive Consequences Five years ago a teenage girl sat down in her high school English class and opened an assigned reading book. This book titled, Night, was written by one Elie Wiesel in the 60s, fifteen years after he was freed from Buchenwald, a Nazi concentration camp. This girl hated reading books she was told to read, she felt they were a damper on her free spirit. This book though, and what it taught her changed her life for the better. Elie Wiesel, a man of…