Only after eleven months took the family Bartsch from the hospital. Ms. Bartsch is in the book being described as a housework maniac. She was disgusted when the child relapsed shortly after the release from hospital. It is also mentioned that the child had over and over bruises all over his body. The mother has every time given new explanation for these bruises, but they were little convincing. This means that Jürgen Bartsch was probably in his early childhood severely abused. Yet we cannot prove that, because the child does not remember his early childhood. But as the boy has several states of panic we can interpret that these states are consequences of hitting and punching. Another evil thing in the childhood of Jürgen Bartsch was that he …show more content…
Till he was six years old he was allowed to go out only in the company of his grandmother and even then he was not allowed to play with other children or get dirty. In other words the boy grew up without the contact to other peers and friends. This also had consequences on the beginning of school. Because he did not know anybody, he did not have any friends and therefore he was the whipping boy of the first classes. At home he was pushed from one corner to the other. His parents did not have any time for him and they have beaten him for no reason. Once his mother threw even a meat knife at him. As he barely avoided the knife, his mother starts to yell at him and says: “This is a bad boy who lets that someone throws a knife at him and then simply avoids …show more content…
This school kept a tight, strict and military rein on 300 boys from problematic families. These children were there beaten up, they had to perform hard work on the field and they were not allowed to communicate with each other. The clerics warned the youngsters about sexuality, they were for example not even allowed to look at a maid, furthermore they threatened them with sanctions. But exactly such a religious person seizes the opportunity as Jürgen gets ill to abuse him. Here it is to mention that the boy`s first sexual seduction was with his 13-year old cousin at the age of eight. That is why Jürgen Bartsch runs away from home and seeks refuge by his parents which cold-bloodedly send him back. So in all this time he had nobody who could have understand his distress and that is why he had to suppress his pain and grief. Jürgen`s talent helped him by the adaptation to the current conditions and for example not to rebel against the early imprisonment in the cellar. In the puberty however he cannot control his suppressed feelings so he lets them free. He starts to torment a small boy with leather pants the way he was tormented in his childhood, meaning with humiliations, threatening, destruction of dignity and frightening. Here the confinement gets an important role. As an adult Jürgen Bartsch attracts small boys into an underground bunker, in order to kill
Blood chilling screams, families torn apart, horrifying murders are all parts of the Holocaust. David Faber, a courageous, young man tortured in a Nazi concentration camp shares the horrors he was exposed to, including his brother Romek’s murder, in the book Because of Romek, by himself David Faber. When Nazis invaded his hometown in Poland during World War II, David remained brave throughout his father’s arrest and his struggle to stay alive in the concentration camp. David’s mother inspired him with courage.
Peterson’s lashing out and beating of his son was not his first experience with abuse. In fact, Peterson himself had been subjected to strict beatings of the same nature, using tree branches or “switches” and belts, by both his parents throughout the course of his entire childhood (Gregorian, 2014). Peterson grew up in Palestine, Texas, where corporal punishment was not only allowed, but used plainly in school districts throughout the state. A childhood friend of Peterson, David Cummings, recounts a day while they were in elementary school where Peterson’s father beat him with a belt in front of 20 other classmates for misbehaving in school (Gregorian, 2014). Adrian’s mother, Bonita Jackson, who also agreed entirely with her husband’s view on corporal punishment, would also whip Adrian for misbehaving (Gregorian, 2014). His father continued to beat him well into his teens, until he was arrested for money laundering for a crack ring, causing him to spend several years in prison (Gregorian, 2014). When asked about these experiences, Peterson responded: “I have always believed the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.” Evidently, there is support that Peterson modeled the same techniques his parents used on him with the intention of disciplining his son. Social learning theory holds that victims of such abusive
It is a miracle that Lobel and her brother survived on their own in this world that any adult would find unbearable. Indeed, and appropriately, there are no pretty pictures here, and adults choosing to share this story with younger readers should make themselves readily available for explanations and comforting words. (The camps are full of excrement and death, all faithfully recorded in direct, unsparing language.) But this is a story that must be told, from the shocking beginning when a young girl watches the Nazis march into Krakow, to the final words of Lobel's epilogue: "My life has been good. I want more." (Ages 10 to 16) --Brangien Davis
This unsettling, but inspirational story of child abuse is full of the many conflicts Pelzer had to endure with his mother. Of all five Pelzer children, only Dave received the abuse from his mother. One of his daily struggles was getting food, which serves as a metaphor for power. Pelzer’s mother controlled him by starving him because she knows he will do anything she asks of him for even the smallest scraps of food. Not only was he starved and beat around, but Pelzer was also told to sit in freezing cold water for hours at a time, forced to eat his own vomit, sleep in the basement on an army cot under the stairs, brutally stabbed, and forced to lay on a burning stove. Second to worst of all, the worst being starved, he would be locked in the bathroom with the concoction of Clorox and ammonia and given a time limit to clean the bathroom with the fumes in the air
Kuklinski’s childhood was dysfunctional. His father was an alcoholic who abused his wife and children (Carlo 2003). Richard dropped out of junior high school and was notorious for killing cats in his Polish neighborhood as a youth. Even Richard’s brother was Joseph was convicted for raping and murdering a 12-year-old girl (Carlo 2003). Amid the alcohol abuse of his father as well as physical and verbal abuse from both his mothe...
Children have often been viewed as innocent and innocent may be a nicer way to call children naive. Since children’s lives are so worry free they lack the knowledge of how to transition from being a child to becoming an adolescent. Their lack of knowledge may be a large part of their difficulties growing up, which could be a few rough years for many. In books like the boy in the striped pajamas the story is told from the point of view of a little boy, this way we get a full view of how innocent he is. In this book the writer shows the reader first hand how a child viewed the holocaust and how his innocence cost him his life. Then in books like the perks of being a wallflower Charlie is a teen whom is struggling with the transition from being a child to becoming an adolescent. In this book the writer gives a first hand look at how difficult it can be to transition into an adolescent. Charlie has many difficulties in this book; he is in search of his identity and how to fit in.
As World War II occurred, the Jewish population suffered a tremendous loss and was treated with injustice and cruelty by the Nazi’s seen through examples in the book, Man’s Search for Meaning. Victor Frankl records his experiences and observations during his time as prisoner at Auschwitz during the war. Before imprisonment, he spent his leisure time as an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist in Vienna, Austria and was able to implement his analytical thought processes to life in the concentration camp. As a psychological analyst, Frankl portrays through the everyday life of the imprisoned of how they discover their own sense of meaning in life and what they aspire to live for, while being mistreated, wrongly punished, and served with little to no food from day to day. He emphasizes three psychological phases that are characterized by shock, apathy, and the inability to retain to normal life after their release from camp. These themes recur throughout the entirety of the book, which the inmates experience when they are first imprisoned, as they adapt as prisoners, and when they are freed from imprisonment. He also emphasizes the need for hope, to provide for a purpose to keep fighting for their lives, even if they were stripped naked and treated lower than the human race. Moreover, the Capos and the SS guards, who were apart of the secret society of Hitler, tormented many of the unjustly convicted. Although many suffered through violent deaths from gas chambers, frostbites, starvation, etc., many more suffered internally from losing faith in oneself to keep on living.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, by John Boyne, significantly distorts the truth of the Holocaust in order to evoke the empathy of the audience. This response is accomplished by the author through hyperbolizing the innocence of the nine-year old protagonist, Bruno. Through the use of dramatic irony, Boyne is able to both engage and involve the audience in the events of the novel. Although it is highly improbable that a son of a German high-ranking Schutzstaffel (SS) officer would not know what a Jew is and would be unable to pronounce both Fuhrer and Auschwitz, (which he instead mispronounces as ‘Fury’ and ‘Out-with’ respectively, both of which are intentional emotive puns placed by the author to emphasize the atrocity of the events), the attribution of such information demonstrates the exaggerated innocence of Bruno and allows the audience to know and understand more than him. This permits the readers to perceive a sense of involvement, thus, allowing the audience to be subjected towards feeling more dynamic and vigorous evocation of emotions and empathy towards the characters. Fu...
Mama, though she may be rough, makes us a pea soup each week and has me deliver our washings to our customers, though we are losing them quite quickly. I believe Mama fears we won’t have enough for when winter comes. Papa, a quiet, mannered man, is the best father I could ask for. When I have my terrible nightmares about Werner, he plays on the accordion for me. Lately, he has been teaching me to read and write better, so that I may be able to get to my rightful position in school instead of with the small children. He has even taught me to roll his cigarettes, which he sold to get me two new books for Christmas. Oh, Max! He recently came to live with us, but I have to keep him a secret. At first, I was completely terrified of him; however, once I got to know him better, I now consider him a friend, much like Rudy. We have much in common – fists, nightmares, and trains. Oh, just thinking of those nightmares makes me miss you even more. I wish you were here; my birthday is coming up, and my only wish is to see you once more, though it will never happen because the Führer took you away.. I must not let my hatred engulf me; I
David suffered physical, mental, and emotional abuse from the age of four to 12-years-old. As his teachers and principal, neighbors, and even his maternal grandmother and father stand by and let the abuse happen, it makes me wonder what they could have done differently. For example, David’s father saw the abuse firsthand and he would try to intervene to help him out initially. David’s father was caught by the madness of his wife in calling him, ‘the boy’ and ‘It’. As much as his father tried to comfort David, he did not have the will to stand up against his wife. Another example, the maternal grandmother commented on bruises visible on David’s body and she did not take action to report her daughter for abusing her grandchild, David. Instead, David’s grandmother stated that she should stay out of it and let David’s mother raise her children as she saw fit. I believed the unreported instances observed by the public to be just as substantial a crime as the child abusers themselves. Also, the Department of Children and Social Services were contacted because of the alleged child abuse events that occurred previously; however, he was not taken from the home because the social worker of the agency sided with David’s mother. The social worker did not complete a thoroughly
The narrator and his brother’s bear physical abuse from pap’s which led them to become more violent towards one another and people outside. The narrator and his brothers were abused by their father whe...
Director Mark Herman presents a narrative film that attests to the brutal, thought-provoking Nazi regime, in war-torn Europe. It is obvious that with Herman’s relatively clean representation of this era, he felt it was most important to resonate with the audience in a profound and philosophical manner rather than in a ruthlessness infuriating way. Despite scenes that are more graphic than others, the films objective was not to recap on the awful brutality that took place in camps such as the one in the movie. The audience’s focus was meant to be on the experience and life of a fun-loving German boy named Bruno. Surrounding this eight-year-old boy was conspicuous Nazi influences. Bruno is just an example of a young child among many others oblivious of buildings draped in flags, and Jewis...
During the time in which the novel is set, many parents lived in the shame for tolerating the actions of the Nazi regime. Michael explains how you people reacted to their parents as more and more discoveries about Nazi atrocities were being made by saying, 'We in all condemned our parents to shame, even if the only charge we could bring was that after 1945 they had tolerated the perpetrators in their mist.“ (34). The shame caused by thier tolaerance ...
Dave’s mother claims that she saw Dave playing on the grass which is forbidden. However, Dave never played on the grass at school. It didn’t matter whether he did or did not, because his mother already had a plan. She told him that she read an article that a mother had her son lie on top of a hot stove and she wanted to test it out. She gripped his arm and put it the flames burning his skin. The reward of playing on the grass was a burned arm. It Another incident happened the summer of 1971, by now Dave knew what to do and what not to do to receive his mother’s punishments. The punishments would vary from no food, a slap in the face if he looked at anyone without permission, and if caught stealing food he would be forced to vomit it and eat or something worse. One episode of abuse that stood out for me was the stabbing. The day for Dave was one of the worst punishments ever. As he sat on his hands on the bottom of stairs towards the basement waiting for ‘the family’ eat and wait until he was called to clear the table. This was a normal occurrence and also praying to receive anything to clinch his hunger. He
Bruno, an eight year old boy at the time of the war, is completely oblivious to the atrocities of the war around him - even with a father who is a Nazi commandant. The title of the book is evidence to this - Bruno perceives the concentration camp uniforms as "striped pajamas." Further evidence is the misnomers "the Fury," (the Furher) and "Out-With" (Auschwitz). Bruno and Shmuel, the boy he meets from Auschwitz, share a great deal in common but perhaps what is most striking is the childhood innocence which characterizes both boys. Bruno is unaware that his father is a Nazi commandant and that his home is on ther periphery of Auschwitz. Shmuel, imprisoned in the camp, seems not to understand the severity of his situation. When his father goes missing, Shmuel does not understand that he has gone to the gas chamber.