8A Night Blog 2018

I thought the film life is beautiful was very good. I liked how at the beginning you would never suspect what was going to happen you would just assume it was going to be some sappy romance. When we watched it in class I almost completely forgot about the unit we were in and just enjoyed watching them fall in love. Of course, there was some instance in the first part of the movie foreshadowing what was going to happen. I was devastated when I saw how broken Dora looked when she learned the people she most loved, her husband and her son, were gone. I admire her bravery for getting on the train so she could be with her family. Although I didn't see it as a smart choice at the time I realize it was necessary for her to go to the boy could find her. I was impressed by how well Guido was able to keep his son happy and full of hope in a time of such sadness. I think the saddest part of the whole movie was how much effort he put in to save his son and after all of it, he never got to see ...

The about the Holocaust has made me more aware of how easy it is for us to turn to evil and believe it’s right. When I was first learning about the Holocaust, the word fear seemed to stand out the most to me. The Germans blamed all of their problems on the Jews because of fear, they put the Jews in ghettos because of fear, or they tried to annihilate all the Jews because of fear. I think it is really important to pay attention to people’s feelings especially feelings like fear and desperation. I feel like we, the world let this happen. We allowed this to happen because of our arrogance. We expected that just because we gave Germany a whole bunch of rules to follow and took some of their land, they would immediately become subordinate to us. And even after the Holocaust we in America allowed things like this happen during the civil rights movement. They’re are some people out there that no matter what you do, will not become good people and it is our job to protect people from those h...