Short Passage:
"We did not know where to go. We were tried; it had been a long, eventful, trying day. It was completely dark now and the town was strange. People were suspicions. Skeletons of bombed-out buildings stood like ghosts against the dark sky. Germany was a haunted country-still hostile in defeat" (Klein 241).
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The ending was sad yet happy. The main character, Gerda Weissman Klein survives and does not die through the Holocaust. But we find out that her close friend, Abek is dead along with his family (Klein 244). I always love read a story with a happy ending. People’s problems are not “over” at this end of this memoir. For those who have escaped or died due the Nazis, their problems are eliminated. However, for those who are still alive, some conflicts may remain. Yes, I think that they are most likely to continue to feel the effects of the adversity they experienced. The people from the book will feel their hardships every day. I doubt that those who lived through the event will ever forget what happened to them and those around them. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), “is an anxiety disorder that some people get after seeing or living through a dangerous event” (National Institute of Mental Health). I think that the people in the memoir defiantly suffered from this. After being exposed, involved, and hurt by the Holocaust their lives will never recuperate or be the same.
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