Essay On The Berlin Wall

For thirty years, an iron curtain lay across Germany. This iron curtain was called the Berlin Wall, and it represented the divide between East and West Germany. It also represented the loss of East Germany’s freedom and democracy. The Berlin Wall separated families and friends. This resulted in children growing up without a father and wives losing all communication with their husbands. The Berlin Wall poorly affected many people and businesses, and caused an ugly dent in Germany’s history.

By about 5 minutes, she already made a dent in the wall that was about 2 feet in so digging would be easier than she thought. Then she started thinking about the Stasi and how much trouble she would be in if they found out and how she was already under the Death Strip which is basically the border around the berlin wall. She went back home and got her brother part of the plan too. A few months after, they decided to make a garden just outside the building to show that they were doing things that are totally not suspicious. Months later, they ran into a problem. They got caught by that same guard that scared Gerta and Anna away from the border! They made a really big boo-boo! Fortunately, they manipulates the guard so now, he is willing to let them keep going with the tunnel, but his family and him has to come with them. They did the most obvious thing that anyone would do, say yes! They had lots of troubles during their hard work of digging including stealing a pulley to pull up buckets of dirt to the surface easier, buying a new shovel that they were supposed to use for food, and lots and lots of rocks in the way. At the end of the summer, they heard something that they didn't expect to happen. They heard digging. Digging from the other side of their tunnel! The first thought that came into Gerta’s mind was that it was Papi and Dominic but, Mami and Fritz thought something different. They thought that more of the Stasi came and decided to capture them for the tunnel. Gerta didn't seem to listen because she just kept digging harder and harder with the shovel. The Border guard came just in time because he saw everyone digging with Gerta ready to bump into border guards but instead there was Papi and Dominic! They were a bit confused to why they were there but it turns out that the note that Anna gave to Gerta symbolizes that

On the night of August 13 th , 1961, police officers strung barbed wire across the border of

In addition, after some time a few more people were in the trashy lot, this obviously caught the attention of Leona. “Then I came to the vacant lot and saw three people in different parts of it… turned out they had shovels, not metal detectors. When I saw they had little gardens going…” She decided she was wanting to grow something of her own, “... I said to myself, ‘I believe I’ll plant me a patch of goldenrod right here.’”

The holocaust was a time of destruction or slaughter on a mass scale caused by fire or nuclear war. During the holocaust millions of Jews were killed by the Nazis during WWII. The Berlin Wall was a time in which a barrier was constructed in 1961 to separate East Berlin from west Berlin. I believe that the holocaust and the Berlin Wall made great impacts to many and had many alikes. They both had similar situations and in both the Germans were involved as was the killing.

The narrator believes she, too, can hide from reality in the garden. “ had a way of disappearing in the garden, as if the garden itself ate them, or, as if with its old-man memory, it put them away and forgot them” (paragraph 5). That is what she wanted from the garden, to be hidden or forgotten, as a child, “ a thousand years” like the “ of murdered pirates and dinosaurs” buried in the garden (paragraph 7).

THESIS: From research and historical analysts, we can conclude that in many cases the people of Germany have been effected socially and economically by the building and construction of the Berlin Wall.

Although Sanburg uses nouns to represent the severity of the battles, he also used imperative verbs to command the humans what to do following these battles. In this case, the speaker, the grass itself, is using these verbs to tell the humans where to start cleaning up. Before Sanburg introduces another battle to the reader the word “pile”(1) is at the beginning of the line. This imperative verb also shows the amount of soldiers that have died. Likewise, the word “shovel”(2) is always used in the line following the battles, to show they need to dig a hole into the ground to bury the bodies. Only when the bodies are below the ground, and grass is able to grow over the hole, will the grass be able to hide what has happened. The other most important

Following the fall of the Third Reich at the end of WWII Germany was split between east and west into two different countries. In the east the German Democratic Republic was under communist rule and was supported by the Soviet Union. The Federal German Republic was a democracy that was part of NATO. As part of the division of Germany following WWII, Berlin, the capital of Germany was divided evenly between the two nations. However, the entire city of Berlin was deep inside of the GDR, so the Western half of the city was democratic but it was surrounded by communist territory. This made West Berlin a place where many East Germans would try to escape to. As a result of this the German Democratic Republic built a wall surrounding West Berlin to stop its own people from escaping to freedom.

The Berlin Wall, built in August of 1961, was s physical symbol of the political and emotional divisions of Germany.

The Berlin Wall is a historical symbol of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall is a symbol of the end of the Cold War. And also, the Berlin Wall played a great role in the life of millions of people and defined the fate of German people, which put them apart by the Wall for a long period of time. Sixteen years after the end of World War II, the communist government of East Germany began building a wall on (August 13, 1961), that would divide the city of Berlin into East Berlin and West Berlin. The purpose was to keep fascists from entering East Germany, but mostly to keep West German citizens, primarily people of valuable professions such as doctors, teachers and engineers, from Changing side to the West. People of Berlin Called the wall Schandmaur, which actually means " The wall of shame". Over the years of the wall being constructed it took at least 3x times to rebuild it, but each time bigger than the last one.

“The garden!” I screamed. I leaped out of bed and ran outside, where I saw the little girl that taunted me today. Then I looked at the garden. It was absolutely destroyed. At first, I was enraged but then I saw the little girl was crying.

The woman who had set up the room, Lisabetta, tells the man the garden belongs to the scientist Giacomo Rappaccini. Rappaccini had appeared in the garden, while studying the plants. He had worn gloves to avoid eye contact. Rappaccini covers his mouth and nose with a mask, but it doesn't help. He had backed off, calling his daughter Beatrice.

A garden that holds your secrets, that is a secret itself, holds a special spot in the book “The Secret Garden”. The garden is described as an overgrown hidden beauty that has not been seen for ten years. The woman who created the garden passed away because of an accident; in turn, her husband becomes bitter and wrathful. The door which led to the garden was locked and the key was buried while the orders were given for no one to enter the garden again. There’s more to the garden than just being hid away. The garden is a secret to some very important characters in this story, but why? Perhaps the overgrown secret may even have a secret of its own.

So the plants were weakened and eventually went into hiding, sending out decoys to make everything seem unsuspecting. But they were hiding . . . biding their time. . . .