Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Personal Impact of Holocaust
How would you react, if you, like Elie, were surrounded by a multitude of death and suffering? Would everything you see and experience make you emotionally desensitized and unable to feel sympathy/empathy for those around you? Would all of the visible and palpable (felt) pain make you much more sensitive to the suffering of others? Would be more or less willing to help others survive? After you escaped from the situation, would what you went through have a lasting impact on you and what would be the impact? Finally, once away from the situation, what would you do to prevent a situation like the one you experienced from ever happening to anyone else again?
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Austyn.4
ReplyDeleteIf I were in Elies situation i would bassically follow what he did. everything that I would see I wouldn't care about it. I probably would be emotionaly desensitized. I would help myself and my father and that would be it. I also think that the multitude of things encountered during that time would effect ones life after. most people that escaped probly didn't take anything for granted. In conclusion as long as my family was fine I would be fine.
4.16
ReplyDeleteIf I was in Elie's position I would probably be sad. I hope I would still be able to feel sad for people. I don't think that I would become more sensitive. I might be more willing to help people survive. That sort of thing would probably effect me for the rest of my life. I would make sure people knew what happened to me.
4.22
ReplyDeleteIf I were like Elie and surrounded by death everywhere i went, I feel like i would just get use to seeing it, and it wouldn't affect me after awhile, it would be the same as seeing daises on the ground. Seeing and watching my loved ones die would be very painful, and also the ways they died,but if I was in Elie's position there would be nothing I could do. Surviving would be my number one rule for myself, because all in all in the very end it's just you. After I escaped the situation, I'm sure I would be in shock, but I would not want it to take over my life, I'd move away from Europe and start a new life. IF this situation ever happened again, I would escape as fast as I could, or flee the country, and make my loved ones go with me.
4.24
ReplyDeleteEli went through a really hard time in the camps. If I had to go through this situation I don't know if I would survive. I would just look out for myself and family and wouldn't care about anyone else. I wouldn't help anyone out and let them take care of themselves. Over time if I did make it out alive, I think I would still remember it for life. The sound and images of people dieing would be in my mind every time I wake up. Finally I don't know if I would do anything about it or something to prevent another situaion like this.
4.8
ReplyDeleteI think that if i was surrounded by a multitude of death then i would feel sympathy for some but after a long time of death after death then i would no longer feel anything. I think that a experience like this one would definitely make anyone emotionally desensitized and no longer able to feel sympathy for anyone. I think that it would actually make you stronger and not feel anything for other peoples pain and suffering. I think that after a while i would try to help those who are closest to me. I think that if i would have had this experience than it would make me stronger and help me accomplish more. To prevent another situation like this to happen i would find ways to stop racism little by little. all in all i think that an experience like this would make you strong.
4.16
ReplyDeleteI disagree with 22 because I wouldnt get used to all that death.
4.#6
ReplyDeleteIf I were to be in Elie's position and if I was surrounded by multiple deaths and suffering I would feel scared, nervous, overall I probably wouldn't know what to do. To me it's like watching your own family die right in front of your eyes. If I saw everything Elie did I would feel emotionally desensitized and unable to feel sympathy/empathy. Seeing other people's pain would make me more sensitive to the suffering of other people in my own life. I would be more willing to help others. If I were to escape this situation it would have a lifelong impact. The impact being going through something that difficult and seeing other people get torchard and knowing that could have happened to me, I would feel lucky! and I would carry that with me throughout my whole life.
In conclusion, in order to prevent this situation from happening to anyone else is get out of the country that is making you go through that as fast as you can. and go somewhere safe. (:
I agree with austyn about the fact that I probably wouldn't take anything for granted, This whole war era defiantly taught people to be thankful for what they have, but this is not how they should have been taught to be thankful.
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4.Comp.13
ReplyDelete- If I was in ELie's position, being surrounded by death and suffering, I would use every piece of my strength to keep myself as strong as I could be. No matter how hard things are going, weakness will only hurt you even more. But if you have enough strength, than you will make it a lot farther. With seeing everyone around me, all the weak as well as the strong, I really couldn't feel anything. I would probably be emotional at first, but than getting use to things, I would have to learn to not be weak and emotional. I do feel like if I tried to have sympathy for other's, it would only make me more weak. So I don't think I could have sympathy for anyone. Family I would. But I would still have to stay strong. Seeing other people suffering and in pain, would make me feel some pain for them, but like I said, you cannot lose your strength. I would help people survive as much as I was able to. AFter escaping the situation, yes, it would have an impact on me for the rest of my life. Seeing and experiencing those things would not leave me. To prevent anything like that from happening again, knowing me, I would probably leave the place where it is going to occur. But I would probably try to get help and stand against it. That should never be done again. Everyone should have an equal right to live.
4.16
ReplyDeleteI agree with 6 because I would get nervous and scared as well.
4.#29
ReplyDeleteI would react a bit like Elie but more different. I would want to stay with my family. I would feel sympathy to the people around me because they might have lost family while they were in there. They could have lost some one right in front of them. I might feel pain for them and could not make me sensitive for the other because I don't know them. I might help others survive if they help me out also and my family members. It would have made an impression on me because it happen to me and it happen to my culture and it wouldn't go away. I would try to notify them about what happened to us and that they would be ding the same thing.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with austyn because i also wouldn't help anyone else.
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If I was like Elie and I was surrounded by a multitude of death and suffering then I don no wat I would do. I think I would be emotionally desensitized and unable to feel sympathy/empathy for those around you because i would not no what to do if i saw dead people around me. I think seeing all the other peolpe in pain would distroy me. i wold like to what ever it took to help some one even if it took my life to help. After what i had been though it would have a lasting impact on my life because of seeing all the dead peolpe, children mothers, fathers. people being tortured right in front of me. If something like this was to ever happen agean then i would tell ever one that crossed my path tobewer and if they were to ever hear about some thing bad about to happen be cautious
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ReplyDeleteI don't like 8 because i would not feel sympathy.
To 4.24 , the impact you think it would have on you could happen, but having all those images and not feeling sympathy sounds like you would just turn into a soulless rock... It's mostly your choice of how you let it affect you, or you can move on. But, I agree it would be a painful catastrophe.
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4.13
ReplyDelete- I would agree with computer 8 because after seeing what goes on in the camps and what happens to the people around you, you would be emotional at first, but than you would realize that you need to be strong and not let anything bring you down. Or else you yourself would be defeated.
4.#29
ReplyDeleteI disagree with austyn because if you help some one they could help you when you ask for it or when you need it.
4.7
ReplyDeleteThis is how I might react I were in Elie's position. One way that this would change me would be that I would be unable to feel sympathy for people because of the things that would have occur in the camp to people because of people. The fact that the pain that I would have felt in the camp would make me more apathetic to others suffering. I would also be less willing to help people survive in a way to help my own self survive. Finally instead of preventing this from happening to someone else I would I would get so far away from the situation that it couldn't possibly happen to me again.
4.13
ReplyDeletei agree with you. because it would be a difficult thing to go through and it would be hard to last and survive and stay strong
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4.#29
ReplyDeleteI agree with #13 because if you show any emotion of fear the guards would take advantage of that.
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ReplyDeletei don't like 13s because its to long.
I agree with autstyn because i wouldnt focus on others.
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i agree with #6 when she said that it is like watching your familey die right in front of you . it would be very heard.
4 #30'
ReplyDeleteIf i were in Elies situation it would probably be difficulty to deal with. after this all happened i might not feel sympathetic for other peoples little problems because i had been through a lot more. /yes, it would change how i felt about life situations. id do all i could from preventing it happening again.
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ReplyDeleteI would react a bit like Elie but more different. I would want to stay with my family. I would feel sympathy to the people around me because they might have lost family while they were in there. They could have lost some one right in front of them. I might feel pain for them and could not make me sensitive for the other because I don't know them. I might help others survive if they help me out also and my family members. It would have made an impression on me because it happen to me and it happen to my culture and it wouldn't go away. I would try to notify them about what happened to us and that they would be ding the same thing. :P
4.15 i do not agree with 4.30 because i would not cry about peoples death i would stay strong for my dad....
ReplyDelete4.15 i agree with 19# bout you would not stay with your family the would git killed and you would never now ...
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