Monday, April 20, 2009

i thought that it was very interesting to read about page 201. it was in chapter 31 and was describing to us about the emigration of Jewish people. I don't know about why now a days, i think about the Holocaust a lot but i do, and i thought it was very ironic that the author wrote that. Because during world war two they were also a special case for them because of their religion. Here we see that Jewish people are also given a special treatment. Good or bad i have not figured it out yet. Mainly i have a hard time going between the two because they are either asked to chose between switching their religion or emigrating to another country. It says that people are hanged on the wall not just because they are Jewish but because they hide it.. which implies that they have to hide that they are Jewish but then again it says that people try to pretend to be Jewish in order to get out of the utopia. (i use the word utopia very loosely.) So if u were a true believer or their culture then i would say that the Jewish religion was a bad thing but if you hated the culture you would rather be Jewish and be able to move away from all the craziness. so depending on the type of narrator in the person speaking they would decided if it was a good thing or a bad thing.

Or course after writing a long paragraph like that i just don't know why i wrote it all on that. i mean i think i like interpretation a sentence but to connect back into the story would be... like asking myself the question of: WHY DID SHE PUT THIS INFORMATION IN THIS CHAPTER.. ANY IDEAS?

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  1. Maybo, When I was in high school I actually thought a lot about the Holocaust too. I think it was because it was such horror on such a large scale that it was incomprehensible to me. And it's only the mot well-known of genocides... there's Rwanda with the Hutus and Tutsis, Vietnam with the Khmer Rouge, Darfur and many more...
    Why do you think she is making this historical connection, particularly one which is so well-known (to the point that it is perhaps loaded)?

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