Imma Grese Is Evil

Using these two accounts of two very different experiences, conclusions can be drawn on how realistic the fictional story of Sophie’s experience within Auschwitz. Above, short summaries of Frankl and Mozes are instated so the two can be distinguishable. Now, using specific details for each of their stories to compare to Styron’s novel will be used to determine the nature of the story of Sophie.

Even though he was also a prisoner of the concentration camp, Idek inflicted harm upon other prisoners for no reason. However, since he is never opposed by other prisoners, Idek continues to exercise his unrestricted power, giving no thought to the prisoners’ distress. Wiesel then proceeds to explain how as he bit his lips to stop screaming, “[Idek] must have taken my silence for defiance, for he went on hitting me even harder” (60). This represents how people who don’t speak up end up enabling individuals to harm others even further. Because Wiesel, like others, did not stand up to oppressors, individuality and personal beliefs no longer existed. When Wiesel notices someone else watching his encounter with Idek, he says, “I felt that she wanted to say something, but was choked by fear” (61). The girl who was watching Wiesel and Idek represents how other prisoners in the concentration camps most likely felt; they never protested against those in power, for fear of losing their lives. It ultimately led to their

These victims were desperate for some relief. Wiesel and many others were tortured beyond belief. In Night, Wiesel says, “Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings! “The Hungarian police were screaming.That was when I began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today. They were our first oppressors. They were the first faces of hell and death.” In this quote, Wiesel tells the reader that the way they were treated was the reasons that they knew they were going to die. The way that Wiesel and the other victims was treated was enough to be so desperate that some of them saw death as the only way

Throughout Gardner's book Grendel good vs. evil is a prominent theme. Grendel struggled with life because he was not like everyone else. Therefore, he did many evil things to humans. Gardner paints an image of Grendel being a monster that is unhappy with himself and is socially isolated. His alienation is due to being unwanted by the Danes: Hrothgar and his people want him dead. As such, Grendel symbolizes a social outcast and that is at odds with the Danes for about twelve years. Nevertheless, Grendel is a very intelligent person which makes him closely related to his human counterparts. He feels haunted by the beauty and intelligence of the human mind which causes him even more frustration with humanity and his very existence. Grendel is

John Gardner’s novel “Grendel” can be characterized as unique, to say the least. His portrayal of the illustrious “shadow stalker”, Grendel, must be carefully considered throughout the book. Although readers are able to sympathize, as well as relate, to this terrifying monster, he must still be classified as evil, given his destructive and corrupt tendencies. Because of his harmful actions, Grendel faces the worst punishment of all, as he is forever an outcast from the human society.

I am and SS officer. I was stationed at Auschwitz. More Jews were coming in every day. There were eighty to a cattle cart. There were so many families that had to go separate ways from one another. I had killed mothers and the babies and weakest of the men that couldn’t work. It was horrible, I do say. If I could say no I would never do it again. I loved my country and Hitler at the time, so I was willing to do whatever it took to get noticed. I was then stationed at a woman’s concentration camp. They all had gotten shaved, had no gold teeth, and had had tattoos on their arms. It was their identification code. They were so skinny it was just skin stuck to the bones. They looked like corpses, but alive. I wonder how many died soon after.

Since the Nazi soldiers were male, they treated men and women prisoners in their camps with a significant amount of difference. Prisoners were forced to do pointless yet challenging labour for an indefinite time before they were sentenced to death. Upon arrival at the camps, Jews were divided into two different groups; one would group would live and the other would be sent to the gas chambers immediately. The labour intensive tasks proved to be quite brutal for women since they were not accustomed to such duties. Even pregnant women were not spared and many women miscarried because the hard labour had killed their unborn child. Those babies who were born were almost inevitably taken immediately and killed. There was no privacy in these camps and the women were continually being eyed by the lonely, watching soldiers. Some women were beaten or sexually harassed while in the camps and could do nothing to stop the horror. Their husbands, brothers and fathers were either dead or in a different part of the

Auschwitz is the largest mass murder site in human history (Arnett) When you arrive at Auschwitz, a carved out message appears above the gate, “Arbeit macht frei”, which translates to “Work Will Make You Free” (“History”). Hours after Hana entered the gates, her and a group of girls were ordered to proceed into a condensed building and take a shower (Levine 82). That “shower” quickly turned into Hana’s worst nightmare. On October 23, 1944, Hana Brady was killed (Levine 82).

Wiesel uses imagery to paint you a picture, a terrible one but, it 's one that you will not forget. Wiesel wants you to understand that these concentration camps were no girl scout camps, but a camp where it was life or death at any given moment. Wiesel shows you through his diction that the events that occurred at that camp still eat away at him to this present day.

“An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.” Stated by William Makepeace Thackeray, this idea of “never letting the light shine through” aptly portrays Grendel’s evil and monstrous figure even though Grendel himself is not a person. Living in a world of loneliness, Grendel searches for the meaning of his own life, attempting to discover the “good” aspects that life brings instead of focusing on the evil individual he was predestined to be. Grendel manages to discover and gain knowledge about life’s various “good” qualities from his enemies, the humans. Although Grendel is exposed to these qualities by the humans, he never changes his approach to life, continuing to behave evilly like

The short story “The Death of Schillinger” was a story about a First Sergeant whom ruled over labor sector ‘D,’ a laboring portion of Birkenau which was formally known as the Auschwitz extermination camp. Schillinger was a short stocky man and was truly evil at his essence; “He visited the crematoria regularly and liked to watch people being shoved into the gas chambers.” (pp.144) One day in August of 1943, the SS were unloading a transport and preparing to load stripped Jews into the gas chambers. However, before this could be done Schillinger took a liking to one of the nude women and grabbed her out of line; she threw gravel in his eyes,

Gerda’s long and eventful journey didn’t just take place in one location or even just one concentration camp for that matter. Her journey had several stops along the way and consisted of days and days of traveling in the harshest conditions. The journey of Gerda’s story begins in September of 1939 in her hometown of Bielitz, Poland (4). Bielitz is where Gerda spent roughly the first sixteen years of her life (43). In the early summer of 1942 Bielitz is Judenreined which means free of Jews basically. Gerda and her family are split and to travel in different directions. Gerda is headed toward Sosnowitz, Poland and gets there in June 1942 (96). From Sosnowitz, Gerda is sent to her first concentration camp in Bolkenhain, Germany (113). While at Bolkenhain, Gerda worked thread machines day in and day out; however, all in all the girls were treated pretty well at Bolkenhain compared to other concentration camps. Gerda would later found out that Bolkenhain was like heaven in comparison to what was to come. Soon Gerda and the rest of the girls are sent to another concentration camp called Marzdorf in September of 1943 (145). Marzdorf was nothing like Bolkenhain and was purely miserable for Gerda. Luckily Gerda doesn’t spend a great deal of

In the Auschwitz documentary Kitty Hart-Moxon gave an explanation of what had occurred during the Holocaust; selection and explains how to survive. Kitty Hart-Moxon stated, “When you arrived on the train, women and children and the elderly were sent directly to their death in the gas chambers. You could hear people suffocating for about twenty minutes, and then it was over” (Documentary: A Day In Auschwitz). If you weren't fit and didn't pass the selection test you were considered weak, and got put to your death. In the Auschwitz documentary Kitty Hart Moxon explains if you passed the selection “You were stripped down of your clothes and valuables, your hair was shaved off….and you would be tattooed with a number.” (Documentary: A Day In Auschwitz). Now, comparing the Auschwitz documentary to the excerpt Night, Elie Wiesel focused on one subject: selection. “ We knew what it meant. An SS would examine us.. to see if we were fit enough.” (Wiesel 308). The victims and prisoners went through a selection process. Men were separated from women along with children. A Nazi, usually an SS physician, looked quickly at each person to decide if he or she was strong and healthy enough for forced labor. The SS officer then selected the weak; victims did not know that individuals were being selected to live or die. Carefully examining both of the mediums subjects, the Auschwitz documentary had a wide

Throughout the Holocaust Years, and shortly afterwards, there was a man that struck fear in the people imprisoned in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp – “the Angel of Death”. He was a man who showed up for selections with a demeanor that made one think he was handsome and debonair yet, one could not possibly think of the monstrosities that he committed during World War II. Even more disturbing is that “wherever he sprang up, Death spread its shadow.” (Wiesel xix)

Irena was influenced by her father, who was a doctor at the time and he later died of typhus caught by the Jewish patients his fellow colleagues would not treat. The Jewish community were so thankful they jointly paid for Irena to go to college at the Warsaw University. She began to protest about the segregation of the Jews into separate parts of the classroom otherwise known as “ghetto benches” and in result got expelled for three years. She then became an administrator for the WSWD (Warsaw Social Welfare Department), through which she provided meals, financial aid, clothing, medicine, and money for the Jews.These Jews were registered under fake Christian names and were reported to have infectious diseases such as tuberculosis. “In 1942 the Nazis herded hundreds of thousands of Jews into a 16-block area that came to be known as the Warsaw