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Forgiving Tem Boom Analysis

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How to Forgive This was a Political and a Social speech becuase she was trying to give her ideal of forgiving to us, but also to change the way that we as people act as a whole. It was 1972, and November had just started. Tem Boom stood on a stage to give one of her life changing expieriences. This story takes place in the past, before 1972. Boom was arrested in World War 2 for concealing Jews in her home. In this camp, a military officer put her age in wrong. While everyone died in her age group, including her sister, she survived through the camp. After leaving the camps she made many speeches about forgiving people who did wrong during the war, and that forgiveness should be given. In this story, Boom had just given a speech on forgiving those who had done wrong. After this speech, everyone was listening, including her …show more content…

Now the man was face to face with her, and put out his hand to her saying, "A fine message, Fräulein! How good it is to know that, as you say, all our sins are at the bottom of the sea!" Instead of putting her hand out to shake it, she instead fumbled her hand in her pocket. She, after giving a talk on forgiveness, could not forgive this man. How could she? He had been a nazi, he was responsible for his sisters death. She doubted he even remembered her, but she knew him. "You mentioned Ravensbruck in your talk, I was a guard there.", he did not remember her, how could he out of those thousands of women? He continued to speak, "But since that time, I have become a Christian. I know that God has forgiven me for the cruel things I did there, but I would like to hear it from your lips as well. Fräulein, will you forgive me?" he thrust his hand out further. Mrs. Boom says it seemed like hours standing there, wrestling with trying to forgive him. He was responsible for his sisters death, after all, and she was expected to forgive him just becuase he

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