Analysis Of Corrie Ten Boom's 'The Hiding Place'

The book, The Hiding Place, is a biography on Corrie Ten Boom and her family’s struggles during the Holocaust. The book takes place before World War I through World War II. Corrie and her family lived in the Netherlands in the time of the Holocaust where they owned a build and repair shop for watches. She had two sisters named Betsie and Nollie, and one brother named Willem. Her father did most of the work with the watch shop, and her mother died when she was a little girl. In 1940 when the Nazis started invading the Netherlands, they would often find people praying in their shop because they were scared. The Ten Boom family begins taking in Jews and giving them a place to hide from the invading Nazis. Later on, the family was caught and arrested

The Hiding Place a story written with love and hope to share throughout the world was written by Corrie Ten Boom who was not a Jew. Corrie with the help of Betsie, her sister, and family helped hide Jews during the Holocaust. Corrie felt that she should help God’s people no matter who they were. Though Corrie felt she could never love these people like her sister she tried everything possible. “One thing in the shop I never learned to do as well as Betsie, and that was to care about each person who stepped through the door. Often when a customer entered I would slip out the rear door and up to Betsie in the kitchen. Betsie! Who is the woman with the Alpina lapel- watch on a blue velvet band-stout, around fifty?” (Corrie 54) Even though Corrie could never find a way to care for each person the way Betsie did she still managed to help every person who walk through the door. Soon the German police came to realize what her and her family was doing and arrested Corrie and her family. While in prison at first Corrie had felt God had abandoned them but it was her sister who made her realize that God never left them and his love never left them this was a trial to see how much they loved and truly cared about God. Out in the cold one day they undressed and are naked walking by guards who are laughing and staring at them both Corrie and Betsie so humiliated

Shelter is a book about discovering who you are. It began with a kid named Mickey Bolitare and his uncle, Myron. Mickey witnessed his father’s death so he is now living with his uncle unwillingly. His life falls apart til he meets Ashley. Ashley is a newbie in school like him, and the second he sees her he falls for her. This girl is the reason his life is livable; until she disappears without a trace. He won't let anyone else leave him, he's lost too much already. On his search for Ashley he meets the Bat Lady who tells him his father is in fact still alive. But Mickey watched his father die right in front of him. With this information he breaks into her house and finds nothing. Except for a symbol that he has now seen everywhere. A butterfly. Now his mind is storming with thoughts of if his father really is alive. He continues his search, and he won’t stop until he knows the truth. In the novel Shelter by Harlan Coben the author uses multiple literary elements such as symbolism, conflict and foreshadowing.

Corrie Ten Boom from The Hiding Place and Anne Frank From Anne Frank 's Diary were two of the of the many people that were living during the Holocaust period. The Holocaust which took place in the late 1930’s and throughout the 1940’s Adolf Hitler an anti-Jewish man came to power in Germany. During this Germany was in a great depression due to their loss of World War One. Hitler promised restoration and power and he was easily accepted. Once Adolf was in power he began to invade countries around them like Poland and Holland. Hitler began to send Jews away to camps. He then began to rampage around the countries capturing the Jews and sending them to the camps where we later found out how they brutally killed the Jews. Before some of the Jews were captured, they went into hiding. That’s where our two stories came from our first is The Hiding Place and the other is The Annex. Although these are not the only stories about Jews hiding from the Nazis these are some of the most extreme. While comparing Corrie and Anne their personality, experience, and final outcomes we see that there are similarities and difference.

Corrie Ten Boom is the daughter of a popular watchmaker and christian living in Holland during the beginning of Hitler, the Nazis, and hatred against Jews. The Ten Boom’s, however, always do the right thing and help anyone in need. Before their mother died, their household was always full of poor neighbors needing food or tea or anything else they could provide. This kindness continues into the beginning of the Holocaust. Corrie begins to join an underground system, involved with helping and sheltering Jews. At first, she was just trying to get some to different places where they would be safe, however. Corrie got so involved that the watch shop, called the Beje. became the center. She had monthly deliveries of food ration card, new Jews would show up to her door almost weekly, and the rest of the people involved in the underground had a secret code or phone calls, revolving around watch-talk. Eventually, Corrie could not find a place or a man, so he ended up living with the Ten Booms. They ended building a secret room with an elaborate warning system installed. They had many Jews living in that room, but little did she know that the entire town knew of her work in the underground and o the Jews in her house. Corrie ended up being caught and taken to prison, along with her father and sister. Corrie kept her with all this time, which helped her make it through. Eventually, after finding out that her father has died in prison, Corrie and her sister get to see the rest of

Life is a precious thing, and it is so precious that some people will undergo severe anguish to hold on to it. During the 1930’s and 1940’s in Germany, people of the Jewish religion were diabolically oppressed and slaughtered, just for their beliefs. Some Jews went to extreme measures to evade capture by the German law enforcement, hoping to hold on to life. Krystyna Chiger was only a small child when her family, along with a group of other desperate Jews, descended into the malignant sewers to avoid the Germans. After living in the abysmal sewers for fourteen months, her group emerged, and when she became an adult, she authored a novel about her time in the sewer. When analyzing the literary elements utilized in her novel, The Girl in the Green Sweater, one can determine how tone and mood, point of view, and conflict convey the message of struggle and survival that was experienced during the Holocaust, and how they help the reader to understand and relate.

Paul Baumer’s definition of home changes throughout All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel written by Erich Remarque. Paul flip flops and is uncertain about where he feels the most comfortable: at the place in which he grew up or the trenches in the front. In the beginning, he yearns for his home, the civilian life he once had where he wrote poetry and played the piano, where there was warm, fresh, home-cooked meals and clean sheets. However, the further the novel progresses, the more Paul’s views about home and his life shift. As he endures more trauma, more war and gore, he succumbs to it and becomes a different man. He realizes this at the end of Chapter Seven, “Out there I was indifferent and often hopeless - I will never be able to be

“On February 29, 1944 the Nazis invaded the Boom house. Six people escaped detection because of the secret room, but Corrie and her father, sisters, and brother were captured along with twenty five others. They were arrested for their work with the resistance.” “After the four months in prison, all the prisoners were told to pack their baggage and take the train. When they were about to board a train Corrie saw her sister Bestie and finally both met in railway station. They were taken to the labor camp so that they may work there. Life wasn’t easy in the labor camp. They had to work hard and punishment was severe. ” One day Betsie was cruelly beaten by a guard for not working hard, but she prayed for the guard that hurt her. Betsie had a

Lies is the most substantial word in Natasha Trethewey’s poem, “White Lies,” because it helps establish the character. “White Lies” is about a little girl, who lives among people of the opposite race, who involuntarily lies. She tells these lies to anyone to fit in.

In the Hiding Place written by Corrie Ten Boom, there is a disagreement on whether it is okay or not to break God’s Laws, even in the face of evil. Corrie’s sister, while hiding Jews, was asked by a Nazi if she had any Jews in her house, and she replied with an honest answer of yes. I think that it is not okay to break God’s Laws under any circumstance.

Claire Boren was a Jew that lived through the Holocaust. She tells about all of the frightening stories of her hiding. She lived with her mother underneath the floor of one of their good friends that agreed to help hide her. Since it was always dark her and her mother got their times mixed up and when she was sleeping her mom was awake. She soon came depressed and her thoughts were very dark. Her mom decided that she needed her daughter to socialize. So they moved to live with some other friends. She was let loose and was able to run around. Her and her mother lived in the attic of the house. She was able play outside with the other kids and learn farming. She learned how to farm and and take care of animals. her favorite part though

That made living in hiding different for them was there break small amount of food offered for them. Because they couldn't leave the annex mr. crawler and me but food for them all. Mr. crawler and meet word generous people who were helping them through the Holocaust. The small portions of food where a struggle for them because everyone was always hungry and they didn't know when the next time they could receive more food. Also it was different because there was no sunlight right except for one room and limited water and there hygiene was not the greatest. While living in the Secret Annex they were stolen from all of their freedom. They had a hard time celebrating for holidays because if they were too loud they fear somebody would hear them. these tough times but they down fall because they could not represent what they believed in. they were labeled and ordered to be put to work or die just because they were Jewish. Life in the annex got boring at times especially for the young teenagers because they were deprived of their personalities and their Hobbies. The hardest thing that came up on the family Fallen hiding was the fact that they didn't know what would happen to them at any minute somebody could give them up. They were locked away in a room unknowing of what could happen to them all they knew what was inside of that room and what was on the

Katherine "Kate" J. Boo (born August 12, 1964) is an American investigative journalist who has documented the lives of people in poverty. She has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (2000), the MacArthur "genius" award (2002), and the National Book Award for Nonfiction (2012). She has been a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine since 2003. Her book Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity won nonfiction prizes from PEN, the Los Angeles Times Book Awards, the New York Public Library, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in addition to the National Book Award for

The setting is based and centered around the events of World War II and the Holocaust. This is a big part of history because millions of Jews died in concentration camps. In the story, a young boy by the name of Bruno moves away from Berlin, Germany, to a more rural home near a concentration camp, or death camp, in Poland(Probably near Auschwitz). This home is so close to the camp that Bruno can visit the fence that separates the camp

The Diary of Anne Frank takes place in a dilapidated warehouse which is used as a store in 1942. There is a front door, and inside the front doorway is a second doorway which leads to a staircase. Anne Frank and her family, along with some friends, hid in an attic called the “Secret Annexe”. It is called the Secret Annexe because in 1942, the Nazis were driving the Jews out of Germany, so, instead of leaving, Anne Frank, and seven other people went into hiding. Forgetting the cramped quarters, the Secret Annex is big enough for Anne Frank and her family to forget that their lives are in constant and deep danger. Sometimes they forget they are hiding so, they aren’t always cautious; occasionally, they are putting themselves at risk of being found out. The setting adds meaning to the story because it gives the reader a chance to see what the Jews lived through, at this time. The book would be different with a different setting because if Anne Frank and her family hid somewhere else, then they would've never met the other families they were hiding with. Also, if they hid in another house then they could've, most likely, been found by the Germans faster.