Nonfiction Children Research Paper

During World War II, Jews suffered many casualties and struggled for survival. This was caused by concentration camps; the reasoning for Jews to be taken seemed unexplainable in their eyes. To be a Jew in World war II, in my opinion, this was the worst thing that could be done as punishment. Sarah in Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay experienced the sensation of going through these struggles. She suffered and sacrificed her life, knowing that she could’ve died. The traumatic events displayed in Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay portray the real situations and sacrifices people were involved in during World War II.

He got the idea from a book called “The Invisible Man”, and Aibileen decides to help Skeeter with it because of Miss Hilly. Unlike the book, Skeeter comes up with the idea of writing what it’s like to be a black maid working for a white family herself, and Aibileen chooses to help her with it because of God and Miss Hilly. Near the end of the book, Aibileen gives Skeeter a copy of “The Help” signed by everyone that helped out. In the movie, the church (filled with everyone who helped the book) gives Aibileen a signed book.

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The Holocaust, yet another unpleasant time in history tainted with the blood and suffering of man. Human beings tortured, executed and starved for hatred and radical ideas. Yet with many tragedies there are survivors, those who refused to die on another man’s command. These victims showed enormous willpower, they overcame human degradation and tragedies that not only pushed their beliefs in god, but their trust in fellow people. It was people like Elie Wiesel author of “Night”, Eva Galler,Sima Gleichgevicht-Wasser, and Solomon Radasky that survived, whose’ mental and physical capabilities were pushed to limits that are difficult to conceive. Each individual experiences were different, but their survival tales not so far-reaching to where the fundamental themes of fear, family, religion and self-preservation played a part in surviving. Although some of these themes weren’t always so useful for survival.

In The Story of Blima: A Holocaust Survivor, author Shirley Russak Wachtel presents scenes depicting the worst that human beings are capable of, and the best. She skillfully contrasts her mother’s suffering at the hands of the Nazis with the loving treatment that Blima receives from three strong women. In the course of the story, Blima receives loving support from her mother; from the labor guard, Gizella; and from her sister-in-law, Ruschia.

When Irene Safran was only twenty-one years old, her carefree life ended in the face of the Holocaust. Born to two Jewish parents as one of ten children-- four girls and six boys in all-- in Munkachevo, Czechoslovakia around the year 1923, her world changed in early April 1944 when she and her family were transferred to a Jewish ghetto. For the next year, Irene's life was a series of deaths, losses, and humiliations no human should ever have to suffer, culminating, years later, with a triumphant ending. Her story is proof that the human spirit can triumph over all manner of adversity and evil.

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.

The Holocaust was life changing for the Jewish people. Inside the book Night, Eliezer Wiesel is a Jewish boy whom’s emotion and spirituality changes after his imprisonment in the concentration camps. The Jewish people, including Eliezer, faced dehumanization many times during this period of time. Teenagers should learn about the Holocaust because it engages students to think critically and self-reflect, by doing so they can make essential connections between the history and the contemporary moral choices they confront with their own lives.

In 1983 Aharon Appelfeld published a work of fiction titled Tzili that closely resembled his own personal Holocaust experiences. This work of fiction revolves around a maturing teen who is alone and on the run during the Holocaust. In Tzili, Appelfeld brings to life his characters, which include Tzili, Katrina, Mark, and Linda. Throughout this literary analysis Appelfelds’ memoir Story of a Life will be used to access the parallels that exist between Appelfeld’s own personal experience and his fictional work Tzili.

Perrett, Anna. “Students Learn First Hand\Holocaust Survivor Recounts Ordeal”. Atlanta Journal-Constitution[Atlanta, GA] Gale 28 February 2002, Infotrac Newsstand, galegroup.com March 16

The Holocaust is a very large topic with many subtopics within, which many people have never heard of. One in particular is the Hidden Children of the Holocaust. Like a majority of individuals, I never heard of this topic before, until I started my inquiry work. Hiding children during the holocaust was an effort to save thousands of children’s lives. The children were hidden in different ways, either with false identities, underground, and with or without their parents. The children with false identities were allowed to participate in everyday life activities, like attend school and socialize with children their age, which in the long run this lead to less emotional and mental issues. However, the children that were hidden and not allowed to leave their hiding spots often faced boredom, pain, and torment. Some children were capable of being hid with their parents while other children were not. Depending on the situation the child was in, depends on the effects it had on the child during this time. In this paper, I will be discussing works by two scholars, Natalia Aleksiun’s Gender and Daily Lives of Jews in Hiding in Eastern Galicia and Judy Mitchell’s Children of the Holocaust. Aleksiun’s article talks about the daily lives of Jews in hiding and also about how they prepared their hideouts. Aleksiun’s article mainly focuses on children that were hidden with their families. In Mitchell’s article, he focuses on the hidden children and gives examples/survivor stories on what it

The Help by Kathryn Stockett, is a book set in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, told by three different women: Abilene, Minny and Skeeter, in each of their perspectives. Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan is a graduate student whose dream is to become a writer, but when she tries for a position at the local newspaper, she is given the job of writing housekeeping tips.

Aibileen by her being black. Aibileen could possibly get beaten, her tongue pulled out, or even killed. Nevertheless Miss Skeeter risked losing her job, possibly, even killed herself. This is a positive relationship because Miss Skeeter could have blown her secret, but instead she did not. In order to protect her friend, that was the opposite race, she had to keep her secrets. Which then proves that whites can trust blacks and blacks can trust whites at the most difficult time, in which they had to endure. There is something about writing that makes this book unique. Also during the 1960s’, only whites were able to write, publish books, write ads or plain write in newspapers, or even magazines. Blacks had their own newspapers in their own part of town in Jackson, Mississippi. Despite the part of town or color of their skin, they both loved to write. It really started with Miss Skeeter. She wrote the newspaper for the Junior League, which then turned into accepting the job working for the Miss Myrna Housekeeping column. Eventually leads her to working on her book, The Help, with the

After Hilly brings up her sanitation initiative, Skeeter meets Aibileen in the kitchen and apologizes that she had to hear the other bridge club members talk about blacks and all the diseases they have. Skeeter then proceeds to ask Aibileen, “Do you ever wish you could..change things.”(Stockett 88) When Hilly brings up the bathroom initiative, Skeeter feels as if she is being disrespectful towards Aibileen, because Skeeter says something to Hilly in order to defend Aibileen. She the gets the idea to start to start a book to allow the black maids to share what it is like being a black maid in Jackson, Mississippi in the 60s. After Skeeter gets the idea to write a book about what it is like being a black maid from the perspectives of actual black maids, She advances to asking Miss Elaine Stein, the literary agent, for permission to write the book. Elaine Stein agrees to let Skeeter write the book but she gives her a deadline in which the book should be written. When she gets the permission to write the book, Skeeter tells Aibileen, “I want to interview you. About what it’s like to be a black.”(Stockett 119) Skeeter thinks that Aibileen is just going to be willing to risk her job and her family despite the consequences, to help write a book that could help black maids get their voices heard. Aibileen, considering the consequences, declines Skeeter’s offer. She eventually considers Skeeter’s offer and decides to help her write the book. Skeeter risks losing her job to help these black maids get their voices heard, in order to help change society in a positive

E. B. White was born in Mount Vernon, New York. He went and graduated from Cornell University in 1921 and then he joined the staff of The New Yorker magazine. E.B. White authored over seventeen books of prose and poetry and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1973 (Scholastic Open a World of Possible). E. B. White not only wrote children’s books but he also wrote adult books, poems and essays, drawings and sketches. Some of his other books include: One Man 's Meat, The Second Tree from the Corner, Letters of E. B. White, The Essays of E. B. White, and Poems and Sketches of E. B. White (Scholastic Open a World of Possible). E. B. White always said that he found writing difficult and bad for one’s disposition. Mr. White has won countless awards, including the 1971 National Medal for Literature and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, which commended him for making “a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children (Scholastic Open a World of Possible).” E. B. White died on October 1, 1985.