Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Lost humans


"If I just think of how we live here, I usually come to the conclusion that it is a paradise compared with how other Jews who are not in hiding must be living," - Entry from Saturday, 1 May, 1943, Diary of Anne Frank  p. 79
Hearing this quote brings me hope. I feel like Anne and her family are few of the lucky Jews and are very fortunate to be in hiding and not at death camps or concentration camps. This is a theme of hope, dehumanization, and resistance, because they are resisting to go through what the Nazis are putting the Jews through in death camps,  they are being dehumanized by keeping their lives a secreting and hiding, and they don't get to live ordinary lives. I feel like she is right they really have nothing to complain about while they are in hiding and their Jewish friends and probably family are all at places where they could be gassed in chambers and die because of starvation when Anne and her family are hiding and eating pretty well compared to the Jews in the death camps.  They are living a better life than the others although in a way they are dying.
I think that the quote relates to the Pianist how Spielman   friends would help him out so he wouldn't have to attend death camps or concentration camps and could get out alive and move on with his life. Anne franks situation is very similar because both her and spielman are in similar situation and are both being dehumanization because they have to hide who they are and try to be someone else. They have to change their regular habits to a whole other thing.They have to leave their regular life styles and adapt to hard lifestyles. Just like Anne and her family have to adapt to their new lifestyles of not being able to go out and being free because they are in hiding.

2 comments:

  1. In reply to red text, I agree to how you say that they are living a better life than others, but still, life at this time wasn't any type of definition of better. They still had a lack of food, had to hear the sound of gore and bombs, and more. Although they did have a longer life and hope, they eventually had been found, they knew that were to be found soon, but lived life as far as they could before getting taken away by officers. If not the officers, they could have gotten a few extra days, weeks, or more, but it would eventually lead to some way of being found out, either from looters hearing the group, or the house getting demolished from gunfire. They only prolonged the eventual find of them.

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  2. In reply to red text, I agree to how you say that they are living a better life than others, but still, life at this time wasn't any type of definition of better. They still had a lack of food, had to hear the sound of gore and bombs, and more. Although they did have a longer life and hope, they eventually had been found, they knew that were to be found soon, but lived life as far as they could before getting taken away by officers. If not the officers, they could have gotten a few extra days, weeks, or more, but it would eventually lead to some way of being found out, either from looters hearing the group, or the house getting demolished from gunfire. They only prolonged the eventual find of them.

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