Luxury Taken
“Now I can fully appreciate how nice a tram is; but that is forbidden luxury for a Jews- shank’s mare is good enough for us.” - Anne frank pg.8 1942 June, 24
My reaction to this was very sad, I felt like the luxury for Jews and their rights were taken away. It kinda tied me back into the time where my bike broke and I had to walk everytime I wanted to go somewhere while being outside. When Hitler laid all these laws on the Jews, taking away their freedom and social time around 1935. I really feel like it’s unfair that they treated the Jews like this, taking their freedom away, judging them for their religion. It’s like judging a person for their race or skin color. I noticed that she used a little sarcasm about the horse is good enough for them, not noticing how worse it going to get with everything going on with the Holocaust, and the changes Hitler is going to make with the
Jewish laws. Sarcasm, is to mock, she mocked that she wasn’t going to have the tram, brushing off, but she is okay with having a horse, like the tram was good for a minute, but the horse is not going to stop us from getting from place to place. Having a little confidence with her troubles , putting a mask on them.
In 1935 Hitler made arrangements to the laws banning the Jews from serving in the German army. This theme is dehumanization because it was taking away rights for the Jews. Throughout the years, more and more of the Jews freedoms were taken away, and by 1943 the Jews were not trying to let the Germans take advantage of them no more, once they saw what was going on after all of these years. It started off with taking the smallest of the Jews freedom away then it start to and off to bigger things, like their home environment (Ghettos). According to our Glossary we got in Social Studies states that “dehumanization is intended to change the manner in which a person or a group of people are perceived, reducing the target group to objects or being not worthy of human rights.” Anne Frank and her family were dehumanized slowly, their human rights were getting taken away. First the tram, what comes next?
Jewish laws. Sarcasm, is to mock, she mocked that she wasn’t going to have the tram, brushing off, but she is okay with having a horse, like the tram was good for a minute, but the horse is not going to stop us from getting from place to place. Having a little confidence with her troubles , putting a mask on them.
I think you are right in detecting a little sarcasm from Anne Frank. I think also that for Jews in Germany and other western nations like France, the fact that their rights were slowly taken away probably didn't seem like such a bad thing as long as it was done piece by piece. Often people lose their rights because they don't really pay attention and a smart government (or whomever) will take those rights slowly so the people won't notice so much. She's using sarcasm but it's also like a toughness...we can take anything you give us. But in the end, they really couldn't.
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