Compare/ Contrast
Broken Glass, Broken Lives vs. A Survivor Remembers The Holocaust in a whole is about people trying to survive. Both “Broken Glass, Broken Lives” and “A Survivor Remembers” tell a story about a survival, only each story has a different survival. In the story “Broken Glass, Broken Lives” by Arnold Geier the general topic is to escape while he still can. The general topic in “A Survivor Remembers” is going day by gruesome day till you can’t anymore. These topics are different but yet the same; they both deal with some sort of survival. Mister Geier in “Broken Glass, Broken Lives” survives not being taken by the Nazis and avoids the terrifying events that could have happened to him but have happened to millions of others. Berek Laturas in “A Survivor Remembers” is a different kind of survivor. He went through all of the horrible events of the Holocaust but somehow by the end of the war he survived it all, which six million others didn’t. The occasion of both stories is almost the same. They both took place in Germany and during the Hitler era. However in “Broken Glass, Broken Lives” it was only at the rise of Hitler, “A Survivor Remembers” was throughout all the events of the Holocaust. Nevertheless, the audience is the same for both stories. Both stories are made for students in high school or late middle school that are comfortable and mature enough learning about real tragic events. Both “Broken Glass, Broken Lives” and “A Survivor Remembers” are also made for anyone that wants to know more about World War II, The Holocaust, The Rise of Hitler, or Auschwitz. In both stories the author is the speaker. Berek Laturas tells his own story about what he went through and how he has grown from it, he wishes he could have expressed his thoughts more to his children instead of suppressing them. Arnold Geier is also the speaker of his story he tells his own thoughts and his own experiences of the past. Everything has a purpose, which is why these authors wrote their