We're Cooked!

Kristallnacht fits in the metaphor of the "frog in boiling water". This is true because of the fact that instead of starting off with a full genocide (the boiling hot water instantly), it is started up by a small spark, Kristallnacht (the slow increase of heating), and continues on from there gradually. The frog finally dying/burning to death in the pot in the end of the Holocaust, as most people had just given up and gotten used to the terrible way of life that had introduced itself years before. The frog blatantly represents all of Hitler's victims (the disabled, Jews, etc.), and the pot itself is just Hitlers plans. The water is obviously the increasing amounts of attacks on the minorities in trial to destroy their race. The metaphor of the "frog in boiling water" plainly represents the Holocaust itself. The beginning of the boiling would be referred to as Kristallnacht.

Anne Frank #1

The way that Anne Frank herself introduces characters is rather vague, as she paints them without many details. She mainly paints out their personalities through describing what is going on at that time. There is not much physical description at all because of the fact that Anne is writing herself a journal and not a book. There is not much dialogue, but more description of what conversations go on and the summarization of those conversations, the main point of each one. Anne Frank herself is the most important person in this story. So far, I have collected the facts that she's blunt, funny, mature and a bit lonely. Anne doesn't have many girl friends, which makes her feel out of place. She's a Jewish girl who is actually rather intelligent and wise for her age. Another vital character in this story I feel will be her parents. This is because of the fact that they have control over her. They are the ones who took her to shelter away from the war. Her parents are very serious about what's going on and selfless, putting their children first and risking their lives for the children. Anne Frank and her parents themselves will have a huge impact in the plot.

Threading Fiction and History

The inhumanity and discrimination of the Holocaust is shown by literal and figurative representations. As shown in all three visual representations of the Holocaust and the nature of the whole event, the scarring event in history was jam packed and dilated with a lack of connection between others because of the non-significant and small details that presented themselves to the foreign eye. In the project "What Does Humanity Look like?", the overall representation of humanity was connection through emotion and assisting others when they need it most. This is the pure essence of humanity, it is what brings people together and persuades them to put aside their differences and grasp that loving essence. The Holocaust was short of just that spirit of humanity. In the veiled book, Terrible Things, each group of animals was taken away according to their differences. This completely manifests the terrible nature of inhumanity by itself, and the constant lack of that essence needed in order to obtain humanity. The Holocaust itself showed how it needed that essence. Hitler and the Nazis both discriminated against the differences of others, committing genocide because of the simple and almost unseen differences.