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Personal Narrative-Hanna

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Hanna

I arose in a haze, baffled and confounded from the claustrophobic trains that allowed me to foresee death. The amber sun was burning a hole in the sky, my eyes competed with the vast brightness that was being emitted. I had yearned the blinding light that obscured vision, with the appreciation of clean air that empowered purity, contradicting the speculation I was perpetrating.

I glared towards the crowd, distinguishing between the frail and robust. As concentration camps were like playing a game of chess, know the rules and tactics or lose the game itself.

The imagery of blue and white rags captured my eye, drifting towards the SS guards who leered with pure poison. My thoughts were disrupted from the splintering scream of the officer. “Men to the right!” …show more content…

My mind was throbbing, as I glared into his cold, satanic eyes.

It is not a matter of what is true that is regarded, but what is perceived to be true. The number sixteen was muffled from under my breath. Selflessness did not alter my decision, but rather my weak, fragile charisma that would fail to tolerate the hardships alone. “I didn't know how to take care of myself. Not here”

Every awakening was a despair, filled with anguish and anxiety. I lived under the burden of the most ruthless dictator. Every wrong action, dialogue or attitude resulted in one resolution, death.

I felt a sudden urge of hollowness, I was perceived as transparent, my vulnerability was not considered. I was soon located in a room blasting with the sound of razors and placed down as a vicious animal that required a ‘groom.’

I tasted the saltiness of my tears, my face damp with blood sprinkling the floor. We all bleed the same colour, all belonging to the human race until culture disconnected us, politics divided us and religion classified

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