Boy On The Wooden Box Adversity

The title of my book is the boy on the wooden box by Leon Leyson. Adversity means an unfortunate event and resilience means overcoming that unfortunate event. The examples that I’m going to show you is about Leon Leyson a young person who is struggling to keep his family safe and struggle to survive from the nazis who have taken him and his family to concentration camps where they are tortured for pleasure. The author is the character himself who has witnessed many traumatizing things through the struggle of survival. This is very significant since there were very few people who were unable to struggle to survive through the event known as the Holocaust and he was one of them. Leon overcame the adversity and demonstrated resilience

Even through the struggles and his near death he was saved by a generous nazi known as Oskar Schindler who was very kind and even went against his own group to prevent the death of many Jews he could gather during the Holocaust.

Leon Leyson has experienced many adversities in the novel from the death of many Jews in his own eyes to him finding out that some of his family members didn’t survive. The first example was when Leon discovered the news that almost all of his relatives didn’t make it out of the Holocaust. In the novel it states, “In one blow, all of our extended family in Narewka, some one hundred relative-had been murdered.” (Leyson, 174) This is an adversity for Leon because he had very precious memories with all his family members and he loved all of them but suddenly out of nowhere he receives news that almost all of his dear

The first example of Leon demonstrating resilience was when he still continued on the way to visit his mother even though it was punishable with death if you were caught running around. In the novel it states, “ One afternoon I took advantage of the pandemonium to sneak into the women’s section to find my mother. I was so small and thin, and my hair was so shaggy, I could pass for a girl; I knew I would be severely punished if I were discovered.” (Leyson, 117) This is resilience because he overcomes the challenge of finding his mother and not be caught knowing that he had the option to continue and ignore his mother so he wouldn’t even be risking anything. He knew the consequences and still overcame his fear of getting caught by guards and getting the whip. Another example of Schindler demonstrating resilience was when he hid food for Leon’s father even risking his life if he was caught helping a jew. In the novel it states, “ He even hid a few provisions in the storage cabinet of his lathe so we would have something to eat if and when we arrived” (Leyson, 148) Also, Leon demonstrated resilience when he still continued to count the number of whips he was getting without skipping a number or miscounting even if it hurt him he still counted so he wouldn’t be given anymore whips. In the novel it states, “ The whips had little ball bearings at the end, intensifying the