Woman In Berlin

During a chance encounter, Danilov and Vassily meet the beautiful and educated Tanya, a soldier in the Stalingrad home defense campaign. They both fall in love with Tanya. In an attempt to win Tanya’s love, Danilov offers Tanya a safer position within the military, however, she prefers to fight with a rifle in her hand and looks to Vassily as a hero worthy of praise. His shy uncertainty and obvious discomfort in her presence only serve to intensify their feelings for each other.

The book diary of Anne Frank is about a teenage girl named Anne Frank. For Anne upcoming birthday she requests a diary so that she can express her thoughts, feelings, and emotions that occur day to day in her daily life. Her parents give it to her and she starts to log about her daily life and relationships with her friends and family. But what she doesn 't realize is her diary docs her horrible life that she has in hiding during the holocaust. Within this book report, the analysis of the book will be given along with the summary of the book by chapter.

Growing up in a wartime environment affects the identities, confidence and adolescence process for many people. In the books, The Diary of A Young Girl, Farewell to Manzanar, and Night, World War II accelerates Anne’s, Jeanne’s and Elie’s precious maturity and coming of age process. World War II, the Nazis and their identity of being Jewish forces Anne and Elie to grow up and mature much sooner than expected. For Jeanne Wakatsuki, World War II have a negative impact on Jeanne’s confidence and she starts to lose respect towards her Japanese heritage. All three of them are struggling to find out who they truly are. Anne Frank, Jeanne Wakatsuki and Elie Wiesel all are greatly affected by the war, but in different milieus and in

In the book Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich by Alison Owings, we are provided with plenty of women who describe their lives before, during and after Hitler received power. This book provides us with different views of the time era and as well as how the impact of Hitler affected every woman differently through social class, age, marital status and etc. This paper will explore the lives of three German women who seem to be in the Grey area during the over control of Hitler but mostly with the killings of the Jews. This paper will further explore the complicity and the different levels of resistance that these three women had during this time era which is 1933-1945. The three women that will be discussed in this paper are Margarete (Margrit) Fischer, Ellen Frey, and Christine (Tini) Weihs. When looking into the lives of all three women these women it seems as though women didn’t have much of a responsibility for the events that were happening around them. Although these women seemed to be complaint to a certain degree with the events there were going on around them. These women would have been complaint due to the fear of what happened to Germans when they stood against the events that took part.

In conclusion, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis brought a lot of damage to the Jewish and others. People were forced to hide in order to keep their lives. While they were hiding they could not do a single thing that would put them at risk of being found. “The Diary of Anne Frank” puts all of this into perspective. Anne kept a diary with her while experiencing the struggles of this war. Her diary helped people to feel what she was feeling during that time.

Not only is Petrukhina’s family falling apart, she also experiences professional distress. After the war, she remains an authoritative figure as a headmistress. Nevertheless, her new profession requires her to fulfill a maternal role. In the school, her rough demeanor makes her mean and unpopular among her students. Her failure to help a problematic student makes her appear unsuitable for her job in the school. It shows her failure to achieve “professional self-realization” as expected for the women in the new post-war society (77). Her professional failure seems to contradict her independent personality, showing the ambivalent interpretation of gender equality before and after the war. Women gained equality during the war when they were recruited into the military, but the post-war equality is based on maternal images of the women. This paradox of gender equality causes Petrukhina to feel frustrated when her personality from the war clashes with a new identity that she tries to foster in order to fit into the post-war soviety.

In Berlin, three Russian soldiers rape innocent Jutta. Marie-Laure loses all hope of ever reuniting with her father. Holding loss and sorrow, the characters all bear the scars of war when the novel comes to its resolution. Likewise, the novel imposes questions on the power to control destiny and how the world around us predetermines the outcome of life. Although established that some personal choices are unfeasible, Doerr conversely emphasizes the dominance of an individual over their own path. Within the climaxing scene, Werner recovers his free will by saving Marie-Laure, acknowledging that he hasn’t taken control of his life “… in years. But today. Today maybe I did.” (Page 469). Furthermore, the conversations between the two protagonists demonstrate the collective humanity that traverses preconceived notions of “good” and “evil”. As stated

A non-fiction narrative written by Anna Funder demonstrates thorough understandings of victims of the Stasi were never fully healed following the collapse of the East German regime. In the novel, Funder investigates the lives of different citizens in East Germany. Each individual, Funder has interviewed has shown different experiences in their live but they all had one thing in common. They all had some sort of interrelationship with the Stasi. Anna Funder has written this novel to illustrate the historical events occurred in Germany to raise awareness. The citizens pour their heart out whilst Anna is interviewing which made Anna emotionally attached to their story exposing the novel to be subjective. Funder illustrates more sympathy to those

“Days of a Russian Noblewoman” is a translated memoir originally written by a Russian noblewoman named Anna Labzina. Anna’s memoir gives a unique perspective of the private life and gender roles of noble families in Russia. Anna sees the male and female gender as similar in nature, but not in morality and religiosity. She sees men as fundamentally different in morality and religiosity because of their capability to be freely dogmatic, outspoken, and libertine. Anna implies throughout her memoir that woman in this society have the capacity to shape and control their lives through exuding a modest, submissive, and virtuous behavior in times of torment. Through her marriage, Labzina discovers that her society is highly male centered.

The memoirs have placed the main focus on the comparison of German Jewish women's lives and that of German Christian women's lives. Using

Becoming fluent in German (reading and writing) as shown when she reads to the frightened people in the bomb shelter (381)

I chose this autobiography because I had read about it in many positive reviews. I also enjoy learning about the history behind World War ll and how life was for the Jewish who were caught in amongst the midst of war. It also tells a story from a child’s perspective which provides a different way of looking at the war and I can relate more easily as I am approximately the same age as Anne Frank when she began writing her journal. The autobiography is also written as a journal which is not a style of book that I am used to, which provided a challenge for me.

As they twist and dissipate, she confides in me, sotto voce, “Nearly every girl in Munich would love to get the Führer into bed. And – how fortunate for us – with Fraulein Raubal absent, he is suddenly available. There will be great rush, but no telling who will come...” she pauses, opens her eyes and locks on mine. “...out on top.”

In contrast to the desolate picture life in East Berlin painted, the economy of West Germany, which also included West Berlin, was rebounding and becoming quite strong. West Berlin’s businesses were booming, and their industry products were readily and rapidly bought by its resident who were eager to obtain the products and goods they had so long been deprived of previously, as a result of World War II.10 This new and heightening demand for goods pushed wages up quickly, and many new jobs were created with the development of new housing units and other construction enterprises.11 Movies, plays, and concerts were also available for West Berlin residents to enjoy, and overall life in West Berlin was good. However, life on the West side wasn’t all fun and games. Their city was still divided, and families were still separated. To the children of West Berlin residents, East Berlin was hidden from view and shrouded in mystery, their only knowledge of the other side coming through school or some form of media. It seemed they constantly asked themselves the question, “ Will the lives of East and West Germans forever be so vastly different and separate?”

delve further into the symbolic characters and their representation of the four main characters’ experiences, life struggles, and interactions with other classes in Russian society in the early 1900s.