Terror: How does one Function?
The horror of an experience liken to the one the first chapter of the book conveys is not one that can be understood of conceived unless it was experienced previously. The terror of being hunted prey is sickening, but for this girl, and many others, it was a reality. If this was me, if I was the one hiding in a hole with 18 other people for days on end, I have no idea what I would do. I might get so anxious that I ran out of the hiding place early, condemning myself to death or worse. I may stay hidden with my family in the hole, but this is only a possibility. One terrifying possibility is that I may just leave and try to fight the Nazis, leading to my immediate death or torture. There is one thing that I do know; if I was given that awful experience of being the hunted prey, I would never be able to let that go for my entire life. The sheer sickening fear would forever linger somewhere small inside of me and I would never be able to be rid of that.
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