John Rabe displayed self-sacrifice and compassion by remaining in Nanking, China to protect the Chinese civilians who were brutally attacked by the Japanese soldiers. In 1937, the Japanese soldiers invaded the city of Nanking, resulting in thousands of people being massacred and raped. Despite the horrendous event that was taking place, John Rabe, a German citizen, chose to stay in Nanking to support the civilians when he could have easily returned back to Germany. Because the Japanese soldiers would violate the young chinese ladies, Rabe would threaten the soldiers with only a swastika band, while the Japanese had bayonets which could instantly end his life (Chang). Through this brave act, Rabe demonstrated how he deeply valued others’ survival …show more content…
The overall setting of the art piece takes place at an underground graveyard with bones and skulls filled with blood which symbolizes the horrific side of death. As the very top of the model, the greenness portrays the happiness and peaceful time when an individual has no conflicts in life. There are hands coming from under the dirt, trying to pull any object that they feel towards death. In this scenario, the ground is trying to capture the wolf when it was initially holding onto the little panda. The wolf views the panda as someone who is helpless, therefore chooses to risk his own life in order for the panda to survive. Even though they are two complete different species, the wolf understands the situation that the panda is in and decides to rescue the panda. Just like the Chinese civilians and John Rabe, they were from different countries, but Rabe chose to remain in Nanking to help support the Chinese citizens. The wolf is willing to sacrifice his own life because he knows that he has the capability and strength, whereas the panda does not have any power to help himself. The wolf acts like a savior who knows the consequences if he were to help, but still comes to the rescue for the compassion that he encompass. Therefore, the model represents the qualities that one, like the wolf and John Rabe, should possess when standing up for
How much are you willing to sacrifice for another? Whether they are a family member or a complete stranger. In the novel The Kite Runner Baba was was willing to risk his life when he had stood up and was trying to stop the Russian soldier from rape the young woman as payment for letting them pass through one of the checkpoints. Then there had been Amir it was when he had suffered extreme injuries, nearly losing his life when he had fought Assef, so that he could save Sohrab for the abuse he was suffering from the Taliban. Both Character Baba and Amir were willing to sacrifice themselves for another person, regardless of who they were. Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, teaches the reader sacrificing your life can lead to another person’s happiness through Baba saving the woman from the Russian soldier and Amir fighting Assef.
When most American people think of Germany, they think of sports cars made for the autobahn, sauerkraut, Adolf Hitler, and the Holocaust. Compared to Germany, when most American people think of Japan they think of sushi, Godzilla movies, Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. World War II was such a significant event in history that almost 70 years after it came to an end, today’s younger generations often associate former Axis controlled countries with the war. People around the world are filled with disgust and immense hate when they hear the name Hitler, mainly because of his leadership under the Holocaust; which was the discriminatory mass genocide of 11-17 million people, the vast majority of which were European Jews. Hirohito, former Emperor of Japan, should strike a similar bell with people when they hear his name because Japan carried out genocide on Chinese civilians and soldiers in World War II. Japan’s attack on the Chinese city of Nanking, was one of the most atrocious events in history. This event has been named both the Nanking Massacre and the Rape of Nanking. The torturous, violent techniques used by the Japanese army upon Chinese civilians and soldiers including dehumanizing them, addicting them to drugs, and other perverse and violent acts, are some of the most grosteque methods ever recorded that could only be thought of by sadistic Japanese soldiers. The events committed by the Japanese army in Nanking, are equally as disgusting as the acts that Nazi Germany committed and should become a major topic involved with World War II in the future, despite the lack of light shed on it in the past for various reasons.
The First color in the wheel is Red it represents Fire, passion and time of fertility, It is also known as the “South”. The Animals that red represent Pride, strength, and courage are known to be the Eagle which has strong wings, The Lion which has the strength and the courage when it roars and finally the Wolf which is a member of a pride that they are so proud to be a part of.
...ader understand what people go through during the Holocaust. By illustrating the different races of people using different animals, it helps the reader understand the power of identity during a traumatic event. By telling the Jewish population numerous times that they are worthless, they begin to believe this and in a sense give up in their fight for their life. The graphics go along with the narration of the story to help illustrate to the reader the difficulties faced by the Jewish citizens just because they are Jewish. When the reader sees a cat on the page with a mouse it causes the reader to tense up and really feel the difficulties faced during the Holocaust because of discrimination. The portrayal of the characters as animals in his novel is a sort of allegory to demonstrate the struggles faced during the Holocaust with regards to identity and discrimination.
This picture to me is saying that even when a mule deer has died and the only thing left is bones and its horns, there is still life with that deer. The deer has lived a life that none of us could have imagined, no one but that deer could tell the story of its life. The mule deer is a symbol of living and how nature can be so hard on animals. The picture makes you feel like the deer is staring at you and that maybe it is trying to tell you something. I know the excitement that comes with hunting and when you shoot that deer and come up to it, there is nothing in this world that feels better. It is really hard to explain the feeling that comes with hunting, but this picture is a deer that has died and it could have been by a hunter or it could have been just old age or disease. It is hard to tell with this picture what has happened to the mule deer.
In today’s society, sacrifices play a big role in our everyday lives. They range from small, such as sacrificing that piece of cake to keep you feeling healthier and a little better about yourself, to big sacrifices such as a firefighter sacrificing his life for a complete stranger. At the end of the day, they all all make a difference for better or for worse. In the play “The Crucible”, many various sacrifices were made during the process of exposing the possible witchcraft that was going on in Salem. These sacrifices were a result of fear. People were afraid that they would be accused of witchcraft and would do anything to avoid being pinned. A few of the sacrifices that were made were people 's lives, the happiness
Flagg's animals are symbols of his plans for the downfall of Delain. The dragon that is killed by King Roland may be considered the most the memorable of all. In this archetypal tale, Thomas sees Flagg murder Thomas's father through the eyes of the dragon. In the end of the novel, though, all of the animals' roles fall into place.
As you can see, it is full of animal imagery. My friends, we do not usually have so many animal references in our works of art, so let me explain them. The bears are symbols of their animal or animal-human ancestors (Cothren & Stokstad, 2011, p.849). It symbolizes the power and presence of the ancestral figures. Emerging from behind this partition also gave the owner great power. Notice the beautiful colors and numerous animals on this partition.
The animal grows up in a cage, unaware of what was outside. After growing strong, he woke up to find the cage opened. He is curious, but scared. After a few days, he leaps out to find the hardships of his new life. This is stated in paragraph 7, "Hungering there is no food but such as he must seek and ofttimes fight for; and his limbs are weighted before he reaches the water that is good to his thirsting throat." The animal must work very hard in his new life. The text also states in paragraph 8, "So does he live, seeking, finding, joying, and suffering." The animal is certainly happy to be free from the cage and in the
One of the evident drawbacks of having animals depict human characters, is that they are figuratively and literally dehumanized. Humans are more complex than their primitive desires, impulses, and needs; and this fact could very easily be lost in translation with this choice of illustration. For example, it could be interpreted that the Germans who were drawn as cats, were behaving like the carnivorous species that they are, and chasing mice, because it is encoded in their natural instincts and a part of their primitive behaviour. This exempts the perpetrators, since it implies their lack of free will was affecting their every decision. It also implies that since the Germans are another specie, the mass murder of millions of people could never have happened by any other nationality, and that evil actions are based upon ethnicity, rather than a human’s negligence from their moral standings. However, Spiegelman was able to slightly deter from this indiscretion by giving each character dynamic personalities and pragmatic
The dog they rescued is a particularly prominent topic, a vestige of the past civilizations. In defiance of the treacherous environment, the dog managed to survive, a feat that even Lisa, the most cold-blooded of the three main characters, could not help but be “impressed by” (Bacigalupi 61). Therefore, the dog is a symbol of hope for the reader, an animal that is in the extreme, completely out of its element, and yet capable of surviving. As a result, nature’s idea of itself is astoundingly resilient, keeping certain species alive as an attempt to return to the normal state of the world. Even after horrendous trauma the natural world is still capable of a stalwart attempt at reclaiming itself. Accordingly, it is never too late to start fixing the damages and help nature’s cause, before allowing it to escalate to such a degree where the oceans are black with pollution and there is no room left for the humans of today. Chen could not help but notice that the dog is different than them in more than just a physiological nature; “there’s something there” and it’s not a characteristic that either them or the bio-jobs are capable of (64). Subsequently, the dog has something that the evolved humans are missing, compassion. In consequence, the author portrays the idea that the dog
In the recent past a lot of books have been written with the religious perspective in mind and the purpose for that has been that the people have been drifting away from the faith and those who have the know how about the thing feel that is it part of their duty to bring the people back to their faith. So it is the process of making the people realize that there is something wrong with their way of life and although it has not been an easy task but many have been trying and most of them have had a history on the related field. One of the best books on the chosen topic may be that of Salvation by Earl D. Radmacher which was also helped on in the editing by the famous Charles R. Swindoll. The message in the book is simple and it is just like the drum on which the God has been beating hard enough for a very long time. They have just tried to repeat what has been said a million times already but in a very unique and a different manner. They seem efficient and they have a certain touch to their approach. They are not willing to let go while at the same time they know what their goal is and it is the way of writing, which would make the reader sit through it all and they would read the book till they finish it. So it is a religious as well as spiritual work but done in the modern day language and it is not a tale but a complete story of what we may have wanted to hear for a very long time. People should be more worried about the after life because that is the eternal life and we have to be worried about the things that would last forever. We should be doing things that will work for our salvation in the after life because there will be no worldly things to support us. We need to be on the move and we need to make sure that we are righ...
However, even though the terms being used are grotesque and seem to describe beasts, the very conditions being described are so humanly in their nature that it cannot possibly be all dehumanizing. In this chapter, the protagonist is the fallen friend of Dong-Ho named, Jeong-dae, describing his experience as a soul post-death and the scene that followed his murder. The imagery he looks down as a fallen soul he describes in detail, “I’d lost so much blood that my heart finally stopped, the blood had continued to drain from my body, leaving the skin of my face transparent as writing paper” (51). The narrator himself describes his appearance as comparable to objects rather than a human and thus the interpretation that these words and scenes are dehumanizing is easy to understand. However, blood, heart, skin, face, body, even stench from the deceased, the limpness of a dead body, the convulsions that follow a blunt force trauma, all of these are human features and characteristics. These are the reactions and affects of trauma that any human would experience and it is clearly distinct form that of an animal because it is able to be talked about an communicated in language form souls or from others seeing it. Through these descriptions and graphic scenes, the author is humanizing the victims and allowing all readers to hear and feel the horrors that is the effects of war and violence on the human
A simple definition of sacrifice is to give up something for the sake of something else, whether it is for another human life, for an idea, or even for a belief. “She was 17 years old. He stood glaring at her, his weapon before her face. ‘Do you believe in God?’ She paused. It was a life-or-death question. ‘Yes, I believe in God.’ ‘Why?’ asked her executioner. But he never gave her the chance to respond. The teenage girl lay dead at his feet.” (DC Talk 17) This example of a sacrifice really happened at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO, on April 20, 1999. In the story Iphigenia and in today’s society, justification can be found in favor of the sacrifice of life for the lives of others, for the sake of one’s country, and for one’s religious beliefs.
Ones take of this story can be many of sorts. The dog essential may have saved this young child, his father may have chosen to throw him out the window. If the dog wasn’t there to take his place, who is to say what could had happened? It also shows how the dogs undeniable, love, devotion and eagerness to please his master. Eventually these traits, sadly left him resting lifeless in his young master’s arms. The relationships between these characters, is one of who’s pulling the strings. The abuse has been passed down from father to son. This story leaves an emptiness, with the unsettling turn of events.