The Movie Begins With A Long Shot Of The Background Greenery

     By the end, the only emotion left among the prisoners is fear. The prisoners desire food more than anything, two cauldrons of soup are there for the taking, “but who would dare?” (66). The prisoners are crushed by the fear of death or pain, and drop their hope and desire, having lost the last vestiges of humanity. Without their humanity, the only thing that matters to them is satisfaction of bodily requirements, and the prevention of

Saul is trying to regain control of his life, encountering obstacles such as distractions. However, once Saul believes he has achieved this redemption, there is false hope. For example, when Saul meets Erv in a bar. This is the first time that Saul feels at home and comforted in a friendship. With Erv, it is almost as if he understands what Saul is going though and he is there when Saul wants to speak about his past experiences, although Saul never does. Instead of speaking about his feelings, Saul turns to drinking once again and anger builds within him. Erv provides Saul with a home, food and a job, essentially a way out, however when things seem to go well in Saul’s life, Saul still feels as though he needs to run away because he feels he can never repay Erv for his hospitality and friendship. This is a very clear indication of false hope in Saul’s life. Just when things seem to go well and he is close to his end goal; redemption, he is still uneasy because he has not confronted his emotions. This idea of false hope is revisited when Saul checks in to the New Dawn Centre, a rehabilitation facility. Here, Saul attempts to overcome his alcoholism because his addiction becomes a serious issue when he collapses in the street. At the rehabilitation facility, the faculty wants Saul to talk about his feelings and emotions regarding his life, and Saul becomes uncomfortable, instead he writes down his story. The main idea of a rehabilitation facility is to overcome addiction and to achieve a goal. The New Dawn Centre symbolizes Saul’s way out, his final destination in achieving redemption, which is untrue. Here, the revisitation of false hope occurs. Although Saul voluntarily attends the New Dawn Centre, the false hope of achieving control of his life is idealized, which is untrue because he ultimately does not. Saul reaches redemption once he leaves the rehabilitation centre. The false hope is

The many beatings, suicides and sexual molestations shattered many children’s human spirit and created a sense of life that wasn’t worth living. “When your innocence is stripped from you, when your people are denigrated, when the family you came from is denounced and your tribal ways and rituals are pronounced backward, primitive, savage, you come to see yourself as less than human. That is hell on earth, that sense of unworthiness. That's what they inflicted on us.”(Pg.81) The quote represents how they were stripped from everything they had ever know, such as their language, rituals, traditions and even choice of food. Over a short period of time, the beatings and threats belittled the children and instilled them with continuous fear. When taken all together, the horror of attending this Residential School stripped not only Saul’s, but all the children’s innocence, traditions and identity.

I found this passage interesting because it left me thinking and analyzing it for some time. I didn’t quite understand it at first, especially the screaming part. Initially I thought it was the prisoner's form of suicide, but after a while I realized that it was only after he stared at his reflection for a couple seconds, that he let out the blood curdling scream. This lead me to conclude, that the man yelled out of shock and fear because he no longer recognized himself. When we

The group gives him new hope for survival. upon the arrival at Auschwitz, Daniel and his father are separated from his mother and sister, and the horrors of the camps are very well described. From being shaved and disinfected to watching other people which are the prisoners, being shot just for no reason, well Daniel continues to push forward through all of his dives to live and he will be reunited with this girl named Rosa. His father is his constant companion and they are able to see Erika. Which is Daniel’s sister. For brief moments on their way to work the Barracks he is now reunited by a friend from the lodz youth group and also he wants to join the resistance youth group too. He will have to take pictures of the crematoriums and also the body pits. The pictures will have to be smuggled out to show the allied forces to see what is really happening in the camp. He feels really good to be involved with the resistance youth group and loves the effort he puts into it. As the allied troops will move closer to the camps the selections and telling increases a whole

The Jews had been starved while being detained in forced labor camp. Those who weren’t fit to work were killed and cremated. The most eye-opening description of the Jewish peoples’ state in the concentration camp came at the very end of the book. After being freed, Wiesel looked in a mirror for the first since his arrival at the camp. Wiesel described his reflection as a “corpse” and stated “the look in his eyes… has never left me.” (Wiesel 115). Not only had the Nazis carried out a brutal campaign on the Jews’ physical being, but they had also infiltrated deep into their psyche. Upon arrival at camps, all Jews’ were forced to hand over all of their clothes and wearing matching uniforms. After that, the prisoners’ were sent to the barber. Wiesel described the process, stating, “[The barbers’] clippers tore out our hair, shaved every hair on our bodies.” (Wiesel 35). After this process, every Jew was tattooed with a number. This process lead to the ego-death of every prisoner. They were no longer people: they were numbers. Nothing differentiated one Jew from another, besides the numbers tattooed on them. This horrendous act could only be classified as psychological torture, carried out by monsters who had lost control of their own

The kidnap of Saul into the residential school system is a product of the superiority complex that exists. The belief that the indigenous people were inferior to the whites is what drove Saul to the school in the first place. Meanwhile, at the school Saul is taught to suppress his culture and values. Saul accompanied with thousands of other young aboriginal children are assimilated into the white culture. The main goal of the school system was to “[try] to remove [their] skin” (Wagamese 44). In this text, Saul compares his first time being bathed at St. Jeromes to

Every human to exists on earth experiences a moment in their life when they have felt immense despair, sorrow, or hopelessness. Whether it is from bereavement, depression, abuse, or trauma, the bitter feelings accompanied by those instances can quickly take over one’s life and suddenly, one becomes buried in dark emotions. At that moment, all the joy and happiness from previous instances in life diminishes, and suddenly the world seems dim. In the book, Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese, Saul Indian Horse experiences similar emotions since the time he was captured by the white Canadian men and taken to St. Jerome’s Residential School. From the appalling abuse as a child to the ruthless racism as a young adult, Saul’s majestic Ojibway life that

Saul is hurt physically and mentally due to the racial abuse he experiences in the school. The first piece of evidence was when the author states, “ They took me to St.Jerome’s Indian Residential School… St.Jerome’s took all the light from my world.” From this quote it is seen that people take Saul to the residential school because he is an indigenous person which is described as horrific. Saul is forced out of his home and is put in a residential school where he is forced to switch his beliefs or else he gets abused. Another piece of evidence is when the author states, “When the dozen of us cried in the chapel, the nuns smiled, believing it was the promise of their god that touched us”(54). From this quote it is seen that at the residential school Saul is abused physically as in the quote it said that dozens of kids were crying including him due to the fact that Saul was an indigenous person while the nuns weren’t. The nuns enjoyed punishing the kids as they believe it is the best way for the kids to become like them. The last piece of evidence is when the author states,“ ‘You're a glory, Saul’... That was the phrase that began groping, the tugging, the pulling and the sucking, and those were always the last words he said to me as he left, arranging his priestly clothes” (199). This quote shows that not only was Saul and his other class hit during their time in the residential school but they were also sexually assaulted. This is mainly due to that they are indigenous people and the fathers and nuns believed that this would be the best way for them to change. The last piece of evidence is when the author states, All of this affects Saul mentally and leads him to abuse alcohol.

Saul had his entire way of life taken away from him when he got taken to St. Jeromes Residential School, and the land helps reconnects him with his Aboriginal culture. During his time at St. Jeromes, Saul seldomly practiced tradition due to it being banned. Although, one time “during some rare unsupervised time, a dozen of [kids] escaped to [...] a

Women and men are separated almost immediately upon arrival, and although he didn’t know it yet, “this was the moment… [Wiesel would be] leaving [his] mother and Tzipora forever” (29). After going with the men, Wiesel and his father are told to lie about their ages, presumably because they would be seen as useless if they were to reveal how old they truly were. This proved to help them, as they were both sent to the barracks, and not the dreaded crematorium. Looking back at this time, Wiesel admits that he would never be able to “forget those flames that consumed [his] faith” (34). The treatment of his people at the labor camp resulted in him doubting his God, and whether or not he should believe in someone who allowed this to happen to him. The chosen men run several kilometers to Auschwitz, a concentration camp, in the freezing cold while wearing hardly anything. Upon arriving, they are told that they must decide between “work or crematorium,” and if they don't work, they “will go straight to the chimney” (39). The thought of suffering from a burning death haunted the men, and seemed to be the only thing that frightened them at this point. For the following weeks, the inmates had a surprisingly humane Blockalteste, and didn't have to work much but this quickly changed once he was replaced with a much more difficult one. One night when the men are speaking of God, Wiesel begins to doubt “his absolute justice” due the situation that he’s in, but is told by Akiba Drummer that God is simply testing their faith (45). Soon after, the men leave with the next transport, arriving at their new camp, Buna, four hours

The bed is just a good opportunity for him to beat the prisoners. That’s how you'll be awakened if you were a jew in 1933-1945 in a concentration camp. A concentration camp is a place where people are detained or confined without trial. Prisoners were kept in extremely harsh conditions and without any rights. They

“The most exciting moment is the moment when I add the sound… At this moment, I tremble.” (Akira Kurosawa) Sound is arguably the most important concept in cinema studies, being there ever since the beginnings. It can radically change the way a motion picture is looked at and it can render what the director may sometimes find hard to depict using only his camera. Looking upon silent cinema one discovers an era which wasn’t at all silent, but rich in sound of different forms, from the simple narration of the images shown on screen, accompanied by a piano, to the complex score later composed specifically for that film. An example of that complex score is shown in Sunrise, a film by F.W. Murnau, which lies at the border between silent cinema and sound cinema. Considered to be one of the first films with an actual score, Sunrise is a great example of the multitude of dimensions and effects sound can have.

The movie begins with Simon Srebnik going back to Chelmno, he is one of the two survivors. He was taken to Chelmno when he was thirteen, his father was killed in front of him, and his mother died in the gas vans. He was known throughout the camp for his agility and his beautiful singing voice. Before abandoning the camp the Nazis shot everyone, including him, in the head. He was left for dead, but was found and survived. Simon went back to tell of the experience he had. He cannot believe what happened as he walks along what is left of the frame of the buildings. He said that 2,000 were burnt per day, but he remembers the camp as being peaceful. No one ever shouted, they just went about their work. He was forced to go up the river, under

You don’t know where the next shot is coming from and you can never relax because the pacing of the movie comes like a tidal wave of dread. An interesting creative decision here is that even though this is clearly WWII and we know who the enemy is, you never see a single German soldier, not even a Nazi Germany flag is present. The closest you get to an enemy is the aerial assault from many jets fighter. The absence of a physical enemy, it doesn’t affect this survival film one bit, if anything it strikes up more paranoia keeping the audience uneasy the way through.