I got an email with this in it. Any thoughts? (If it's too small to read, just click on it and it will put it in another window, larger.)
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5 years ago
Friday, February 19, 2010
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- The Pact by Jodi Piccoult
- The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
- Five Chimneys by Olga Lengyal
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
- The First Born Advantage by Kevin Leman
- Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
- Twilight by Kristen Heintzmann
- Water Witches by Chris Bohjalian
- Clay's Quilt by Silas House
- A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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Holocaust Literature
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3 comments:
When reading this cartoon, I was thinking about my life and how this would apply to me personally. The religion part hits me because faith is a huge part of my life. I was just thinking, what if all the Christains in the world were put on a stand, and like the Jews, all they had to do was deny their faith. I do not believe that I could do that, because Christ said If you deny me, I will deny you before my Father. With that alone, it makes me want to say, "I would never deny my faith," but I hope I really wouldn't if faced with that situation. The kid in this cartoon doesn't understand the meaning behind the tattoo because he says it's a boring tat, but it is a tattoo with a very NOT boring story. At the end, the man tells the kid he kept it to remind the younger generation that The Holocaust really happened and how to prevent something like that from ever happening again.
I think it is the whole idea that survivors don't want the next generation to forget or to deny that the Holocaust was very real. They want them to remember; as a memorial to those who died and also in hopes that the next generation will do all they can to stop it from happening again.
I love, love, love this cartoon. And everything Jenna said, I COMPLETELY agree with.
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