The document discusses the various challenges faced by the main character Bruno in the novel "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas". Bruno, a 9-year old boy, faces emotional, social, and life-threatening challenges. Some of the key challenges mentioned are keeping his friendship with Shmuel a secret from his parents, enduring the presence of the feared Lieutenant Kotler, and dealing with the loneliness of his new home in Auschwitz. Bruno's decisions in facing these challenges are impacted by his desire to avoid risk and his youthful lack of understanding of the dangers around him.
This is a book excerpt from the book entitled, "Making the Most of Your Life: Eight Motivational Stories & Essays" and the one selected for the Choose Respect curriculum is "Raising the Blinds" by Peggy Kern.
This is a book excerpt from the book entitled, "Making the Most of Your Life: Eight Motivational Stories & Essays" and the one selected for the Choose Respect curriculum is "Raising the Blinds" by Peggy Kern.
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Dee Ananda
Professor Evans
English 102
2 November 2013
Living In a New Post Apocalyptic World:
An analysis of “Diary of an Interesting Year”
How would the world react to being thrown into a post apocalyptic setting? What behaviors and instincts would come out once the world is literally brought down to its knees? Author Helen Simpson seems to give us an account of how it might be through the eyes of the female character in her story. Helen is an author of short stories and novels and she resides in London. In an interview she states that relative subjects about everyday problems that could eventually lead to bigger problems, aren’t what people what to hear about or bother themselves with. She states that in the short stories, it’s meant to grab someone’s attention in the first couple of lines so they are intrigued to read through the story and possibly get a better understanding and feeling that things of this magnitude can possibly happen in the real world. Diary of an Interesting Year, Simpson lets us see how a freshly turned 30 year old woman in London views the world around her and the precautions and the actions she must take in what is happening around her. In director John Hillcoat’s film adaptation of “The Road,” Hillcoat wanted to show the movie audience that this story was about if you did survive an event of this magnitude, what would be the next step? He wanted to project exactly what humanity’s worst fears would be, are
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we prepared for it all, and how do we leave it all if it’s our time. He wanted the viewers own imagination to be the front runner in their process of analyzing and understanding this film. Though they are two different views and accounts of a post apocalypse earth, they drive to the same question, what would humanity do if we were ever met with this tragedy?
So how does the human mind psychologically view what people would call “The End of Times”? Doomsday seems to be something that is prevalent in all cultures and seems to span over all eras of time spanning back all the way to text in the Book of Daniel in the Bible. In an article, psychologist Jeff Greenberg explains that humans and animals have a basic survival mechanism hard grained inside of us, but unlike animals, humans are the only ones aware of their impending death and knowing that one day we must all come to an end. Greenberg believes that humans create cultural traditions and views that trick our minds to give us a sense of permanence in this world. He goes on to say that Armageddon’s attract people who feel insignificant with a hope of a better future. When it comes to religious persons views on the apocalypse, they feel the event would bring paradise to Earth or send their souls off into heaven. For Doomsday preppers, he feels that these people preparing for the worst case scenario is a way for them to avoid the anxiety of everyday life, because if they are doing something to prepare themselves then in the end they w.
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Ananda1
Dee Ananda
Professor Evans
English 102
2 November 2013
Living In a New Post Apocalyptic World:
An analysis of “Diary of an Interesting Year”
How would the world react to being thrown into a post apocalyptic setting? What behaviors and instincts would come out once the world is literally brought down to its knees? Author Helen Simpson seems to give us an account of how it might be through the eyes of the female character in her story. Helen is an author of short stories and novels and she resides in London. In an interview she states that relative subjects about everyday problems that could eventually lead to bigger problems, aren’t what people what to hear about or bother themselves with. She states that in the short stories, it’s meant to grab someone’s attention in the first couple of lines so they are intrigued to read through the story and possibly get a better understanding and feeling that things of this magnitude can possibly happen in the real world. Diary of an Interesting Year, Simpson lets us see how a freshly turned 30 year old woman in London views the world around her and the precautions and the actions she must take in what is happening around her. In director John Hillcoat’s film adaptation of “The Road,” Hillcoat wanted to show the movie audience that this story was about if you did survive an event of this magnitude, what would be the next step? He wanted to project exactly what humanity’s worst fears would be, are
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we prepared for it all, and how do we leave it all if it’s our time. He wanted the viewers own imagination to be the front runner in their process of analyzing and understanding this film. Though they are two different views and accounts of a post apocalypse earth, they drive to the same question, what would humanity do if we were ever met with this tragedy?
So how does the human mind psychologically view what people would call “The End of Times”? Doomsday seems to be something that is prevalent in all cultures and seems to span over all eras of time spanning back all the way to text in the Book of Daniel in the Bible. In an article, psychologist Jeff Greenberg explains that humans and animals have a basic survival mechanism hard grained inside of us, but unlike animals, humans are the only ones aware of their impending death and knowing that one day we must all come to an end. Greenberg believes that humans create cultural traditions and views that trick our minds to give us a sense of permanence in this world. He goes on to say that Armageddon’s attract people who feel insignificant with a hope of a better future. When it comes to religious persons views on the apocalypse, they feel the event would bring paradise to Earth or send their souls off into heaven. For Doomsday preppers, he feels that these people preparing for the worst case scenario is a way for them to avoid the anxiety of everyday life, because if they are doing something to prepare themselves then in the end they w.
Essay On Coconut Tree. Analytical Essay: Coconut tree essay in englishToni Craven
The Versatile Coconut Tree: A Guide to its Many Parts and Uses Free .... Coconut Tree Essay – Telegraph. Essay on Coconut Tree in English | coconut day essay | plam tree essay .... 10 Lines on Coconut Tree in English || 10 Lines Essay on Coconut Tree .... Analytical Essay: Coconut tree of life essay. नारियल के पेड़ पर निबंध | Essay on coconut tree in hindi - Hindi Gyan. 10 Lines Essay On Coconut Tree
1. Julia<br />I am a potato coach, my best friend is in danger, I have to go save her, but I have to fight a sea monster first – most peoples’ first sense of challenge would be in action, obvious ones, because of the results’ contrast. As in the example, the potato coach in the end would usually be a hero or failure. But challenges have much more kinds and types, such as mental, emotional, social or intellectual challenges. In the book “The Boy In The Striped Pajamas”, the main character Bruno, who is a 9-year-old boy, faces different types of challenges. Is life fair when you only have the choice to face death or live lifeless? This is what Bruno has faced, he faces challenges of decision that are all going to the paths that will bring up to painful lives. He is a boy, who wants to be an explorer, who is smart enough to protect himself from relieving secrets, and with his young mind that is underdeveloped with history knowledge naturally led him choosing the deadly choices of solutions that are unthinkable, <br />When you were a child, and you kept something big from your parents, like having a secret lover, you might start picking your mother’s roses from her garden, to you it would be a challenge, a mission to not let your parents know, and that is what Bruno Is going through, keeping his secret, a challenge to not reveal it. What he did is found a friend when exploring, named Shmuel. After he was so excited to tell his parents about it, but when he came closer to the house, the more he felt he should not tell them, He didn’t want to take the risk of loosing Shmuel. He was afraid that his parents won’t like Shmuel, or don’t want Bruno to have a friend that was found from the area that Bruno wasn’t allowed to go. So his decision was done, he decided to not to tell anyone about his secret friend. Though it’s not easy to keep this secret, which is one of Bruno’s challenges, he had to be careful when visiting Shmuel, making sure no one seeing him, and being careful that he doesn’t slip it when he is talking to someone. Once when he was talking to his sister, Gretel, he accidently slipped saying “meeting Shmuel”, what he had to do is acting innocent and saying Shmuel was his imaginary friend. In the end there was a tragedy of his choice of solution in his other challenge, as this challenge was the path between them. <br />There is one thing that affected Bruno’s life, the biggest darkness and enemy, not to only him but to all of us, loneliness. It’s a big challenge for all of us to defeat our own enemy, so was it for Bruno. This challenge was not hard for a young boy to solve, but is the solution safe enough? At the start when Bruno just moved into Auschwitz, with no one, we knew it would be hard for him to live with no social life, it would be hard for everyone. It was his biggest challenge to face in those days, to not get mad or having the feeling of suicide, which most adults would have, but to Bruno, a 9-year-old boy, an open-minded kid would take action. He had a solution to face this challenge, which is exploring. Doing his favorite thing, without any knowledge where he is and what can happen in the place where he is going to explore. Again, it's a path that is going to the death direction, so is it getting closer when he met Shmuel. One of the bright appearances turning out to be the most deathly result, though Bruno doesn’t only face these challenges with poor results, he also faces fearful challenges. <br />There was one who Bruno hated more than anything, and feared off, he would consider his reply and a reaction, that gentleman is Lieutenant Kotler. Lieutenant Kotler is a soldier who has a high position, comes frequently to Bruno’s house and staying with Bruno’s mom, which Bruno hated. Bruno had a whole list of why he hated Lieutenant Kotler, but of Lieutenant’s serious face, there are reasons in intense moments, Bruno is afraid of him. Once in the kitchen, Bruno met Shmuel, Lieutenant came in and scolded Shmuel (a Jew) for eating the food. But Shmuel, also a young boy, claimed that he is a friend of Bruno (Commander’s son). Lieutenant Kotler asked whether it was true or not. Bruno so then was in an in tensed moment. He was afraid of Lieutenant Kotler, he was afraid what would happen His decision came out automatically from his response of feeling. He lied; he said he didn’t know Shmuel. Not to protect the fact that they know each other, but the fear of Lieutenant Kotler, who always takes everything safe, from this we can learn that Bruno is someone who always take things safe, not so much a risk-taker. In that moment of intense, it was his challenge to choose betrayal or loyal to Shmuel, to himself it would be the choice of risk, non-risk. He also had a challenge, to endure that Lieutenant exist, because Bruno hates him so much that he doesn’t want Lieutenant in his life. <br />Overall, in my opinion, in the novel The Boy In The Striped Pajamas the main character Bruno has gone through numerous and varieties of challenges. As we can see and learn from these challenges, we learned more about this character, that he is fast thinker and non-risk taker. Lots of his challenges were easy to overcome of his personality, but the effect was unfortunate, it was unpredictable for a child who is only 9-year-old. <br />