‘’you have to understand that no one puts their children on a boat unless water is safer than land”Warsan Shire
Pennies for Hitler narrates the life of a german boy gorge, whose grandfather was Jewish and father English before the outbreak of the war through to the end from the start Jackie french hints that all is no good and horror will strike . When faced with situations beyond believe for the greater part the characters rise above state of affairs and become greater people in the gruesome wartime . The majority of characters face with overwhelming distress throughout the novel characters such as multi gorge aunt Miriam and the Peaslake their suffering is hard to imagine. gorge is faced with the hardest times a 10-year-old should never face to keep identity a secret to hide himself from is own society.
Gorge witnesses what hatred is and what it can really do to a society interlay gorge grew up in Germany. Gorge thought he lived a normal life. little did his know that his life was far from it and about to be turned upside down , it was only till he witnessed his father being targeted by germans he claimed as his students accusing him of being Jewish the hate grew to the
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Hitler had become a dictator in Germany and he had the opportunity to make people’s lives better but life for Hitler as boy turned him against the lives of others . However all he wanted was the need for power and became a destructive person to become a person who ruled the world with no fear someone who had everyone on their side , “the Nazis will kill you” Hitler created people to hate to only think of blood and death even there own family were no longer important Hitler has created a world “where being dead was possible.so many lives were lost in this
Dieter, a fifteen year old German soldier, is going into war even though his parents don’t want him to. He has no idea what real war is going to be like and he thinks that Germany has done no wrong no matter what the other, elderly soldiers tell him, he doesn’t believe it. The other boy, Spence, is sixteen and he drops out
Although Jake was spared his life in the great war, he lost another part of his life and future. Jack tries to compensate his lack of any real future with Brett or any other women with his passion for bullfighing and other frivalties. In John Steele Gordon’s article, “What We Lost in the Great War” Gordon laments the loss of hope and future the generation of the war felt. The characters of the novel, and especially Jake, exemplify the lack of direction felt after the war. Their aimless drinking, parties and participation in the fiesta is an example of the absence of focus in their life.
He proves that the blank slates of childhood should not be chalkboards for politics and that children should be exactly what they are – children. While the text certainly has some dark undertones, it would serve as an excellent foil for high school readers of Night. That said A Child of Hitler is still a must read for adults and college students regardless of their age, poignant and direct it provides a perspective that all people should have when trying to understand World War II and the rise and fall of Nazi
In his memoir, A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah deals with his loss of innocence as he is forced to join the children army of Sierra Leone in the country's civil war after being conscripted to the army that once destroyed his town in order for Ishmael to survive. His memoir acts as a voice to show the many difficulties that the members of Sierra Leone's child army had to suffer through and their day to day struggle to survive in the worst of conditions. In order to escape the perils and trials of war, Ishmael loses his innocence as he transitions from a child who liked to rap with his friends to a cold blooded solider in the army during the civil war in Sierra Leone. Through his transition, Ishmael is forced to resort to the addiction of drugs such as cocaine, marijuana, and “brown-brown” just so that he, along with the other members of the child army can have the courage to be able to kill their fellow countrymen and slaughter entire towns who stand in their paths. In order to portray his struggles in the army, Ishmael uses the dramatic elements of memories explained using flashback, dialogue, and first-person narration in order to establish the theme of the memoir being how war causes for a child to lose its innocence. The transition shown in the memoir illustrates how the title of the novel, A Long Way Gone, was chosen because it demonstrates how he is a long way gone psychologically, emotionally, and physically, from the child that he was when the memoir begins to the soldier that he is forced to become.
“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed” -Friedrich Nietzsche. A Separate Peace by John Knowles is a coming of age and tragedy novel. In this book, John Knowles shows us the lives of teenage boys during World War II. They boys may seem alright with their cheerful attitudes, but the raging war is still on their minds. They are wondering what it would be like to become a war hero, how everyone would respect them or if the war isn’t as great as it seems. The glory of World War II enticed Finny, Leper, and Brinker only to later reveal to them its true colors.
War deprives soldiers of so much that there is nothing more to take. No longer afraid, they give up inside, waiting for the peace that will come with death. War not only takes adolescence, but plasters life with images of death and destruction. Seeger and Remarque demonstrate the theme of a lost generation of men in war through diction, repetition, and personification to relate to their readers that though inevitable and unpredictable, death is not something to be feared, but to calmly be accepted and perhaps anticipated. The men who fight in wars are cast out from society, due to a misunderstanding of the impact of such a dark experience in the formative years of a man’s life, thus being known as the lost generation.
Storm of Steel provides a memoir of the savagery and periods of beauty that Ernst Jünger’s experienced while serving the German army during the First World War. Though the account does not take a clear stand, it lacks any embedded emotional effects or horrors of the Great War that left so few soldiers who survived unaffected. Jünger is very straightforward and does remorse over any of his recollections. The darkness of the hallucinations Jünger reports to have experienced provides subtle anti-war sentiment. However, in light of the descriptive adventures he sought during the brief moments of peace, the darkness seems to be rationalized as a sacrifice any soldier would make for duty and honor in a vain attempt for his nation’s victory. The overall lack of darkness and Jünger’s nonchalance about the brutality of war is enough to conclude that the account in Storm of Steel should be interpreted as a “pro” war novel; however, it should not be interpreted as “pro” violence or death.
Perhaps Faulks’ main intention of using Weir to explore the attitudes at the home front debunks the myth that the generals in the war were ‘butchers’ to reinforce that they had the same experience as the soldiers. The fact that Faulks reiterates the lexicon of ‘bored’ as a response from Weir’s father demonstrates this total indifference in the Home Front. This is understandable because the government essentially had to cover up information about the war and reinforced this with propaganda and a sense of nationalism to remain victorious in the war, despite it being a ‘crime against nature.’ The imagery of a ‘great bombardment’, possibly referring to a German Blip, epitomises the frustration that many generals and soldiers would have felt because of this indifference at the home front, clear through Weir directing this to his family because of their lack of understanding. However, it is clear to notify that the Defence of the Real Act (Dora) had the government overpower the public’s lives through censorship around the war. It is clear that this absence of knowledge establishes the attitudes of the soldiers to be indifferent too as Faulks reiterates through Stephen that the fighting should not be for the dead not for ‘home’. Therefore, this anger is epitomised through the Stephen’s ‘indifference and resentment’ by not talking for two
World War One or “The War To End All Wars” was one of the most devastating events in the history of humankind. When looking back at such a gruesome war it is understandable that we might dwell on the key battles and tactics, which are often summarized by statistics on death tolls. However, we often forget that statistics create an illusion that warps our perception of death. As Stalin put it “One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is just a statistic”. In the novel “The Wars” by Timothy Findley, the author draws away from traditional war stories by showing a true appreciation for life that truly touches the reader on a human and emotional level. Timothy Findley narrows in something anyone can relate to: a loving mother worried about her son risking his life in a war. This mother in the “The Wars” is Mrs. Ross, who represents the home front while her son, Robert Ross, fights for the British in World War One. As the book progresses and Robert gets further into the death trap known as the “Great War”, Mrs. Ross becomes increasingly obsessive and connected to her son as his fate becomes more clear.
Hitler saw that most of Germany didn’t fit this picture at all, so he decided to solve it in one of the most awful ways possible. The mass murder, or Holocaust of over six million Jews, and long with the innocent Blacks, Gays, Gypsies, and both physically and mentally Handicapped. He mostly targeted the Jewish because in World War II, the Jewish was the main reason why Germany lost in World War II. This mass murder lasted over years and years of murder, forced lab...
As you can see, Adolf Hitler is one of the most influential figures of the 20th century because he killed millions of Jews trying to perfect humanity through the Holocaust, his reign and military leadership of Germany lead to World War II, and his efforts of world domination influenced history forever. Used brutal methods to wipe out the jews. Used his military power to start WWI. His efforts lead to many changes that still influence our world today. Outcomes from the war still exist today such as the controversy in Israel, the creation of the United Nations, and the awareness towards protecting people’s rights. Hitler’s reign of power in Germany resulted in many horrific incidents; but we used his actions as a way to better our world by preventing people like him from coming into power.
People cannot choose the time to live and die. Ginzburg had to live through the horrors of war: destroyed houses, air raids, arrests, and death. She shows how the war not only deprives people of their belongings, but also distorts the primary meaning of things and concepts. The world “police” no longer bears the meaning of protection and help but rather that of fear and suspicion. All pretty things that decorate a house, as well as the house itself, come to be viewed simply as raw material that will eventually turn to dust. Children of the war had seen too much terror and suffering in real life; therefore, Ginzburg asserts that this makes it impossible to raise children telling them fairy tales as the previous generations did. The only advantage the Ginzburg’s generation got from the war is the ability to see and speak the truth. As the generation of men they have no illusion they will find some peace or certainty in life, but they have found “strength” and “toughness” to “face whatever reality may confront” them and they are “glad of their destiny”.
In World War Two, Germany was in need of a leader. The Nazi's and the citizens were looking for someone to follow, and Adolf Hitler came along giving these powerful, motivational, and uplifting speeches. Everyone thought that he was the best and only person to follow. The Nazi's and the germanic ppeople probably didn't think that what they were doing was wrong. They probably believed that it was the best and most logical choice in order to win the World War. Adolf Hitler, although he was a horrible dictator, was one of the best leaders there ever was. He made the germanic people believe that the genocide of millions of people was necessary to create a perfect world. At first, most of Germany adored him, now everyone despises him. Sure not every person you meet is Hitler, but if you look at the person with a different attitude, it's more than likely to
“There was no choice. If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn’t you help him?” (Bülow). When one of the Jews that Oskar Schindler saved asked him why he helped the Jews in the concentration camp, he responded with this quote. Oskar Schindler viewed the tormented Jews as more than a dog in the road. He saw the quality of their lives and went against the expectations of society to save them. Oskar Schindler’s work throughout the Holocaust is an important example of someone going against the status quo for the good of others.
Adolf Hitler was a man who knew how to inspire crowds, control media, and influence others to see what he wanted them to see. He took control of Germany and successfully ostracized jews, gypsies, and handicapped individuals. He convinced people to follow his beliefs by giving them a template for the “perfect” person. He himself ostracized anyone who did not fit the idea of the “Aryan” race. Hitler himself did not fit the “Aryan” profile, but his leadership skills and convincing speeches made up for the fact that he was not “perfect”.