The Hiding Place By Corrie Ten Boom Analysis

From “Inside Rikers”, written by Jennifer Wynn, Wynn shares the lives from the “world’s largest penal colony” the inmates from Rikers Island. She really humanizes criminals by giving them faces and names because she does what most American are unwilling to do because they are afraid, that is forgiving people and giving them second chances. She really does see the good in the hearts of some staunch criminals. At the same time, she is a clear sighted humanist on how hard it is to leave the criminal lifestyle. Drawing all the difficulties and complications that our society has placed in the way of the newly released inmate. Not to mention the persuasions of the criminal lifestyle itself. The first chapter is Welcome to the Rock, where Wynn introduces the narratives of Angel, Kenny, Charlie, Alfonso, and Benjamin. Chapter two is titled, From the Belly of the Beast to New York Streets where both Frank and Mike are introduced here. In Chapter Three, the Captain and Harry tell the stories of Keepers Of The Kept, Convicted At Birth with Rico, Napoleon, Hilton, and James in Chapter 4.

"There are just laws and there are unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that an unjust law is no law at all... One who breaks an unjust law must do it openly, lovingly...I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law."

Corrie Ten Boom’s astonishing novel, “The Hiding Place”, is an extraordinary adventure of one courageous Christian woman who had been sent to a concentration camp, along with her sister, for helping the Jews. Both the girls depended heavily on Christ’s power and words to guide

God has given many commands as we know. In the Bible, God gives His people the Ten Commandments. These are a set of rules to which the People of Israel must live by. One of the questions is, Did God tell them they should do this because he said so or because it is right? One of the examples would be if God comes down and says to go and rage war against every unbeliever and kill everyone who does not believe, we will have to do so and you have no right to say it is wrong because God commanded us to do so and anything that God commands is Law and Good. We’ve seen this real life example in Isis. The radical Islamic group did just that and claimed they were doing everything for Allah. The rest of the world, we saw it as an act of terrorism but In the Koran, they are commanded to kill non-believers. We did not only disagree with it but we knew it was wrong.

During the salem witchcraft trials people were guilty for breaking the ten commandment. Based on the trial people had to know the ten commandments to prove that they are the god’s child. Even though some knew the commandment; they broke one or more of the commandments due to their actions like “You shall not steal”, “You shall not commit adultery”, “Honor thy father and thy mother” which should be followed and respected.

Often people have a difficult experience that changes their assessment of a group of people or respected elder. This essay will illustrate the experiences that Laura Robinson relates to when trust is placed in the wrong hands and less powerful people are made to feel vulnerable, I will further analyze how Laura Robinson sexual assault case is still happening in sports news today resembling NFL football, NBA basketball, and gymnastics.

{20:15} Thou shalt not steal. {20:16}Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. (Moses). This shows again that all of Gods statutes concern family matters. God applied these laws to make them just and not to hurt anyone but to punish one when the action that they made was punishable.

Corrie Ten Boom’s book, The Hiding Place, is an inspirational story that explores the issues of needing and wanting freedom, and maintaining strength throughout life’s difficulties. This book illustrates how important freedom is, and how, without it many people are lost or lack hope. Freedom coveys the feeling of strength and worth. Corrie explains this throughout her book.

A particular question that is seldom pondered over and yet is capable of carrying so many doubts within it: who are we? Who are we as a society who can do the things we do? Who are we who can suffer from them? Award winning poet and essayist Susan Griffin confronts these distinct questions in her work titled, “Our Secret”. Griffin believes that a basic understanding of the things that play a part in the growth of an individual is essential to understanding who we are. The way a child is raised dictates how that child is going to become later on in life. One of the distinct highlights of Griffin’s essay was her use of describing the progress of the V1 rockets in World War II. Griffin studies the aspects of human nature by using these missile developments as a metaphor to symbolize the raising of children and the factors that can influence a growing individual. One of the prime figures that Griffin uses pertaining to these growing individuals was Heinrich Himmler, leader of the Nazi secret police. Griffin uses Himmler as an example to demonstrate how big of a role a parental figure can play in the development of a person.

Corrie should have hidden the helpless, desperate, and terrified Jews for three reasons: Helping the Jews is what God would want, The Nazis where cruel and cold-hearted to the Jews beyond imagination,

Once Martin Luther King Jr. said “now is the time to rise from the darkand desolate vally of segregation to the sunlightpath of racal justice”. He said this in his speech in the 1960’s, many African Americans were treathed unfairly. Before the speech something happened. In Birmingham, Alabama something happened that would change America.

In Susan Griffin’s work titled “Our Secret”, she discusses the relationship between the present-day and the earlier life of different people. She also compares the private and public lives of other people. Her piece is set during World War Two in the 1940s. Throughout the entire piece, Griffin compares the lives of people evolved in World War Two, people who were affected by the war, and her own life. She shows how even though they lived separate lives, they are still closely related.

     The Hiding Place is about Corrie ten Boom, her family, and how they helped the Jews in Holland when Germany invaded Holland in World War II.

America a lot would say the greatest country on the planet! Anyone can be anything they want in this country (it is said) if they work hard enough at it. Almost everybody in America wants to get rich and most would love to be in the Americas top one percent. These days to be in Americas one percent it seems like you have to a complete jerk like Donald Trump or Mark Cuban, but it might have always been like that. In the diary of the “Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover” by William Byrd, a very rich plantation owner, we get a day by day details of how Byrd lived his life from the years 1710-1712. Byrd would write down all the things he thought were important of each of his days. So as anyone can imagine a lot of Byrd’s diary is filled with repetitive and uninteresting things. However, through the telling of the “Secret Diary of

When people aren't following the law it doesn't mean that they are doing something that could harm someone; it could be something that wouldn't have no harm no foul. When you don’t follow every law it doesn't make you a bad person. I don't believe everyone follows every law because there are too many laws that we don't really know. Breaking a law that has done no harm doesn't make you a bad person.