Otto Frank Research Paper
“For the past two years we have lived in fear. Now we can live in hope.” Otto Frank, was the father of Anne frank. Otto Frank had been a survivor in the Holocaust. Many people argue about the issue of survivor's guilt, about whether or not survivors should feel guilty about life and death situations. Survivor's guilt is when a life and death situation happens and the survivor feels guilty of surviving of the disaster they were in. Otto Frank had survivor's guilt because he lost family members during the holocaust such as Anne Frank who was famous for her diary about what had happened during the Holocaust. This explains survivor's guilt because Otto frank and his family had been through the holocaust and only he survived which caused survivor's
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In the short story, “The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami, about a boy’s close friend named K. gets killed in a typhoon and the seventh man experienced guilt from the disaster, it says, “I wake up in the darkness, screaming, breathless drenched in sweat,” (Murakami 141). The seventh man had nightmares every night of the disaster. The seventh man was afraid if he was ever the ocean, his nightmare would come true. This connects to my claim because he was suffering from recurring nightmares, and the seventh had survivors because he was reminding that his friend had died in his dreams. Survivor’s guilt can also keep you from healing, which can lead to the survivor always having survivor's guilt. In the short story, “The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami states, “This is probably why I never married. I didn’t want to wake someone sleeping next to me with my screams in the middle of the night.” (Murakami 141). Since the seventh man was having recurring nightmares, as well as never getting married, he had never found happiness in his life. The seventh man could never tell another person what happened during that
In the short story, “The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami, about a boy’s close friend named K. gets killed in a typhoon and the seventh man experienced guilt from the disaster, it says, “I wake up in the darkness, screaming, breathless drenched in sweat,” (Murakami 141). The seventh man had nightmares every night of the disaster. The seventh man was afraid if he was ever the ocean, his nightmare would come true. This connects to my claim because he was suffering from recurring nightmares, and the seventh had survivors because he was reminding that his friend had died in his dreams. Survivor’s guilt can also keep you from healing, which can lead to the survivor always having survivor's guilt. In the short story, “The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami states, “This is probably why I never married. I didn’t want to wake someone sleeping next to me with my screams in the middle of the night.” (Murakami 141). Since the seventh man was having recurring nightmares, as well as never getting married, he had never found happiness in his life. The seventh man could never tell another person what happened during that