nh115+Holocaust+essay

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====**Picture this: Everyone in your class is reading Devils Arithmetic, while your friend is reading she stumbles upon a word. It's a word that isn't a very school appropriate word. The teacher thinks she doesn't know how to pronounce it so tells her the word. She reads the word and everyone laughs, because it's a curse word. This is one of the reasons why I think the sixth grade is too young to learn about the Holocaust, it's too mature. I think eighth grade is good but sixth graders that laugh when you say "balls" are not ready to hear about this. The Holocaust is too mature and scary for kids who still sleep with a teddy bear.** When I read this book I got upset at some parts, I felt like my tears will fall like they were racing to the floor. ====


 * You think these people were just put to work. Nope. They were beaten, starved, and burned if sick. Children that were under 14 or didn't look 14 jumped into the midden or trash where there was animal bodies and feces. They would strip down naked so it was easier to wash themselves instead of them and their clothes. Anyone who was sick and couldn't work was burned. **

====** So I think sixth grade just isn't ready. People aren't ready emotionally. ** Reading about the Holocaust is like reading twilight. It messes with your emotions. There are times of hope but they get shattered like a mirror **. It's extremely depressing and can lower someones esteem. It may help to make people more thankful for what they have, but it may make people to upset and feel that this is possible to happen again. It can give people nightmares and may even change the way you see life. If you are optimistic you see everything in a good way but after learning about the Holocaust you may become worried about lots of things. **====

====** Also the Holocaust is very violent. It has a lot of blood, murder and suicide. People couldn't take it anymore and would kill themselves. They thought there was no way out, that nothing would get better. In certain camps that had electric fences if you got too close it would suck you up and kill you, it was so strong and such high voltage. The Holocaust is scary to read about, with only sixth grade learning about it can be really scary. **====

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 * Finally, the Holocaust is just to mature and scary to learn about. Learning how Adolf Hitler tormented these poor people who didn't do anything to him. Some people didn't even get a chance to survive, the were sent right to the chimney. Along the way in these terrible cars people would draw their finger across their throats to show they aren't making it out where they are going. Hitler believed if you had blond hair and blue eyes and light skin you were perfect, as long as you weren't Jewish. Hitler made Jews, homosexuals, Jehovah witnesses do terrible things. Baby's were usually used to fend for themselves when the commandant showed up. Hitler eventually killed himself knowing he would be put to instant death by killing over six million jews, and this is why I think sixth graders shouldn't learn about the Holocaust. **=====

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