Sunflower

possibility of forgiveness depends on the people involved and the situation. Some people believe in the common saying “forgive and forget” and live up to it, but others never forgive people for their wrong-doings and definitely don’t forget. In the book Sunflower, the main character, Simon, was not able to forgive the SS officer for his participation in the torturing of the Jews during the Holocaust. This is understandable considering that the Simon was an imprisoned Jew himself. It would…

with a roof patched up with tin, sleeping on a cotton sack stuffed with dry grass. She was the youngest child of twenty, which included fourteen boys and six girls. Her parents, Lou Ella and Jim Townsend, were sharecroppers. Her family moved to Sunflower County, Mississippi in 1919 from the east of the Mississippi Delta to work on the E. W. Brandon plantation. At the age of six, she joined her family in planting cotton, picking cotton, and cutting corn. She attended school through the sixth…

become a leader or a follower? Alejandro Ines, a college student at Porterville College, writes about how anybody could be a leader and a follower, in his essay, called “Follower or Leader?” Ines introduced a book we read in class, called, “The Sunflower,” by Simon Wiesenthal, an author and a Jew who survived the Holocaust. Ines thesis was, “The life of the typical leaders and followers is composed of many intellectuals, such as mentoring, motivation, and obedience.” Ines’s stances were powerful…

Babbette Jaquish planted sunflowers and sell the seeds to support the cancer research. She was trying to help herself and others who get cancer, even when she knows that her “body decling over the years” White. She was live positive by trying to do something to herself, her family, and people who get cancer, not sitting and let other feel sorry about her. It also shows how real love affacts others, her family continued what she started doing. also how people feel hurt by losing someone who they…

DJ MF Sunflower grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana; where she grew up in a household full of music. In fact, her grandfather was a musician at the Madame CJ Walker building in Indianapolis. DJ Sunflower's flare for all things musical started for her at an early age as she began by playing the flute in the first grade and continued throughout high school. As a child, she would watch music videos, and she wanted to be like Spinderella, as she thought she was the coolest and wanted to do what she did…

“Good Morning San Francisco” decided to dedicate a day to Simon Wiesenthal's book, The Sunflower. Wiesenthal decides to pose a question when he was placed in a room with a dying SS man. The SS man, Karl, asked Wiesenthal for forgiveness of what he had done. Wiesenthal’s choice was silence, but as the story continues and his struggle goes on of being haunted by this man he poses a question. Should Karl the dying SS man be forgiven for the murders he has committed? Tanner: Good morning San…

art and social media to combat against his nation’s government. As the Tate Modern worded in their interpretation text, of his exhibit, they said,”Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds challenges our first impressions: what you see is not what you see, and what you see is not what it means (Tate Modern 1.)” The 100 million seeds look like real sunflower seed husks and people have even asked Ai Weiwei if they could try to eat them. In this piece, Ai Weiwei had over 1600 people working in small workshops…

On December 17, 1942, several countries, including the United States and Great Britain, identified the law as an avenue for pursuing justice on behalf of individuals persecuted in the Holocaust, resolving to prosecute war criminals responsible for the mass murder of civilian populations (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). From 1945 to 1946, the Allied powers sentenced 22 war criminals for their actions, yet the process of understanding crimes against humanity and empowering their victims…

The Sunflower is about a man, Simon Wiesenthal, who is a jewish man in a concentration camp during WWII. Wiesenthal talks about the real life accounts of his struggles through the trails of precaution. Wiesenthal also tells the readers about what his daily tasks are in the camp. One day during Wiesenthal’s experience he was sent to a military hospital in a city where he had got his degree. At the hospital Wiesenthal is asked by a nun to follow her up to another wing of the hospital. In this…

It is a societal expectation to forgive others. Usually with the exception of truly heinous crimes, sincere compassion is expected. In Simon Wiesenthal’s book, The Sunflower, he displays the opposite of this norm. He describes his situation: him, a prisoner of the Nazi concentration camps, being asked pardon from a dying SS man as his dying wish in a makeshift hospital. After the SS man, much later revealed to be named Karl, has finished his gruesome account of his sins, Simon is left with…