Think

Authors note: I am really lucky that I have a home to go to after school or after activities, but others aren’t as fortunate. Some kids don’t get to live in their house for more than two or three months. I wrote about this short story because this story told me exactly what it was trying to say.

We load everything in the dusty truck again to move to up north for the grape growing season. That means new friends, new school, and a new house, again. I really wish we would stop moving, but if we did I wouldn’t be able to go to school or have enough money to buy food. When Franciso Jimenezthe wrote The Circuit, he intended to open the eyes of the privileged to see the less fortunate families

Like a lot of people, myself included, we have the opportunity to live our lives in the same place, not moving from house to house. As kids our parents work for the same job all year so we never have to move; unlike other kids where their parent’s jobs go with the flow of the growing season. While you get the privilege to live in the same house for multiple years you get to develop a friend group that you spent a lot of your time with, and get good advice from. That all changes if you’re constantly moving.

Although a lot of kids get to live in the same house for many years, the others who don’t have many struggles. Their self esteem is low because they feel like they never have any friends. As families move, the children would always feel like the new kid; they wouldn’t know anyone. What if no one wanted to be their friend? At least at their old school they had plenty of friends.

People that are more fortunate need to open their eyes and see the families who are less blessed in the work field. Kids in school need to accept people of all shapes and sizes, because once you have a good friend you might lose them faster than you wish.

Elimation all together

 Authors note:

This is a topic I feel very strongly about and I know that everyone has an opinion about it. Please look for my astonishing use of vocabulary.

“The prisoners’ overseers beat them mercilessly, kicked them, and clubbed them. They would fall to the ground. It was a macabre scene. I had never in my life seen anything like it. Neither did I later on, even though I remained in the camp for a long time after.” – Jerzy Bieleki

What the Nazis did to a lot of people is further pain than discrimination; it hurt them a lot more. Because of the Nazis all Jews lived in horror. They lived hiding in small, dark, and cramped places. Their lives were filled with walking quietly and no fresh air because of fear that they would be killed if they were seen.  In the novel Anne Frank by Mirjam Pressler the author shows how the Nazis ruined the lives of not only the Jews, but also the lives of people from other races as well; they were not only discriminating against these races, but trying eliminating them altogether.

Discrimination isn't necessarily a bad thing.  According to Webster's New College Dictionary, the act of discrimination means altering actions against a person because of what they believe in or how they look. You're not allowed to drive until you're sixteen and that discrimination but it's a good thing because the roads are a lot safer.  We discriminate everyday but it isn't always wrong.

What the Nazis did was far worse than discrimination.  When the war started the Nazis would capture Jews and if they learn that they were a Polish politician they would hang them on what is called the hook. Across the wall lies the hook, prisoners get their hands tied behind their backs, then get hung in an uncomfortable position from their hands. Polish politician Jerzy Bielecki who was sent to Auschwitz said this, "He wanted to hang me on the hook. He said “stand up on your toes.” Finally he hooked me and then he kicked the stool away without any warning. I just felt Jesus Mary, oh my God, the terrible pain. My shoulders were braking out of the joints. Both arms were breaking from the joints. I'd been moaning and he just said 'Shut up, you dog. You deserve it.  You have to suffer.”

During all the chaos of the war against the Nazis and the Soviet Union there was still mass murder going on at Auschwitz. This lead to discrimination and elimination towards people of all races. On the sign at the beginning of Auschwitz it said “Arbeit Macht Frei,” which translated to English means “work makes you free.” Later on people were outraged at the Nazis because no matter how hard people worked they by no means were set free.

When the Nazis were discriminating against the Jews and people of other races they were trying to eliminate people who were not like them.  Many people went through a lot of pain and suffering as a result of a strong prejudice toward a particular group of people. To stop this from happening again, our nation needs to understand each others belifis religions, so never again will we have people like the Nazis.