Ka-Be was the place where the doctors and nurse look after the prisoner's injury and heal them, if it is in EMERGENT. The Ka-Be does not seem to actually care about the sickness of the Jews. The example in Pg 47 said,
"The nurse takes out the thermometer and presents me: 'Nummer 174517, kein Fieber.' I do not need a long examination: I am immediately declared Arztvormelder. What it means I do not know, but this is certainly not the place to ask questions. I find myself thrown out, I get back my shoes and go back to the hut."
This shows that even if Jews wait for long time for examination, the Ka-Be people does not look carefully about the sickness. They just decide what kind of sickness it is and tell the patient to rest.
Ka-Be is also a bad place, but not so bad like Auschwitz. SS men treat the patients harshly by sending the sick to the cold shower repeatedly.
The Ka-Be doctors, some of them are also prisoners of the camp. They have special skills on doctoring and that is why they are working among the SS people. A fat doctor who took medical examination on primo had black striped suit hidden inside the white coat. The indication to Doctor's fatness, I think, is that the prisoners who work for the germans get fed well.
If there is one hope to survive in Auschwitz, one must be good or like major in one occupation and work for the Germans.
Wednesday, 28 February 2007
Journal 3
in the third chapter, people suffer from hunger. For their ration, they only get bread each meal. However, the bread in this camp is not only precious, but also it is used as money. In exchange for bread, prisoners can trade their bread for cigarettes, clothes, or ticket to the washroom. This exchanging bread shows that the prisoners have will and hope to survive. By giving up their hunger for one meal, they can get washed up, or get more clothes to warm themselves up, or maybe enjoy a cigarette break.
Journal 2
In the second chapter, there is one part where Jewish people and German people having hard communication since the German language is new to those international Jewish. Primo knew a little about german, but not fully. It must have been pretty troublesome and 'blocked' for Jews because they can't understand what Germans are saying.
Then the prisoners were taken to shower room. All their possessions like clothes and watches were taken away and they were shaved. Then they would get new prisoner clothes to live with it until the end of the camp.
The prisoners are also numbered and Primo got 174517 tattoo on his left arm and that became his new name in the camp. Naming a prisoner in numbers... that shows that the camp is truly a jail and make jews look like sinners and bad criminals.
Then the prisoners were taken to shower room. All their possessions like clothes and watches were taken away and they were shaved. Then they would get new prisoner clothes to live with it until the end of the camp.
The prisoners are also numbered and Primo got 174517 tattoo on his left arm and that became his new name in the camp. Naming a prisoner in numbers... that shows that the camp is truly a jail and make jews look like sinners and bad criminals.
Journal 1 On auschwitz
In the first chapter, Primo Levi, the italian jew was arrested by fascist troops and was taken to Auschwitz concentration camp. He knew that the camp was the most horrible place for Jews like him. It seemed that it is also almost hopeless to survive in Auschwitz. At first, author could not get along with the new harsh enviornment such as night time and the waking up time. There is also a quote in pg 16 "dawn came on us like a betrayer." This probably explains that when each morning comes, the death of a jew will come closer and since nobody knows who is going to die when, so morning makes every jews fearful. Morning is refreshing beginning for outside life, but it is like hell in Auschwitz
Friday, 9 February 2007
Journal on Auschwitz Video
As I watched the Auschwitz Concentration Camp video, I was shocked to see millions of death of Jews, among them being 200,000 chilren. German Nazi gathered all jews from european countries and set them in concentration camps to work to death. Auschiwtz camp was one of the concentration camps and it is also where Primo Levi had survived.
Many people were killed by breathing Zyklon-B gas or getting cremated in a crematorium. Jews were mercilessly killed, experimented, and tortured. The jewish children were experimented by a German scientist named Josef Mengele and suffered or died of dangerous lethal injections.
For those years in the internment, Jewish children were away from their parents and as shown in the video, the one thing that these Children needed was other person's care. Without this care, the children lived in harsh enviornment and survived through hardships that no normal kids have to experience it. When a soviet soldier gave kids a chocolate and a hug, the kids cried in happiness.
The jewish adults suffered more than any race or religious groups. Since Hitler made Jews an enemy of Nazis, adults in the camps were destined to die. Some useful people who have some skills in certain jobs can be hired in the camps. In the video, twenty years old woman volunteered to be a SS worker, to guard and supervise the Jewish women in the labor. However because of her greediness in power of her SS uniform, she killed her own kind and was sentenced to death two months after her 22th birthday. I guess that in the camp, people tend to do anything cruel to survive under the powerful side. For the men, men who were strong and healthy could survive from the selection and other weaklings are left to die.
Nazi is very cruel because this organization led by Adolf Hitler had caused more than One million jews into death. A single man led to the destruction of one million people. When i think about this i remember from the Bible passage that When Pilate was washing his hand that he is not related to killing Jesus, Jews prophet said, "Then we and our descendent will get the punishment!" It seems that punishment came to reality and I sometimes wonder, If God planned that massacre to happen or if it was just a coincidence.
Maybe Hitler made Jews an enemy not because the jews were always successful in business and rich, but also they were the murderer of Jesus Christ. I don't know if Hitler was a Christian, but i heard from someone that Christians didn't like jews because Jews were the cause of Jesus' death.
After the camp was over, some survivors lived to tell the tale. Auschwitz concentration camp was the most horrible place that these survivors could ever go. There was not sympathy in those camps and men, women, and children were harassed, torutred, raped, experimented, and killed.
Many people were killed by breathing Zyklon-B gas or getting cremated in a crematorium. Jews were mercilessly killed, experimented, and tortured. The jewish children were experimented by a German scientist named Josef Mengele and suffered or died of dangerous lethal injections.
For those years in the internment, Jewish children were away from their parents and as shown in the video, the one thing that these Children needed was other person's care. Without this care, the children lived in harsh enviornment and survived through hardships that no normal kids have to experience it. When a soviet soldier gave kids a chocolate and a hug, the kids cried in happiness.
The jewish adults suffered more than any race or religious groups. Since Hitler made Jews an enemy of Nazis, adults in the camps were destined to die. Some useful people who have some skills in certain jobs can be hired in the camps. In the video, twenty years old woman volunteered to be a SS worker, to guard and supervise the Jewish women in the labor. However because of her greediness in power of her SS uniform, she killed her own kind and was sentenced to death two months after her 22th birthday. I guess that in the camp, people tend to do anything cruel to survive under the powerful side. For the men, men who were strong and healthy could survive from the selection and other weaklings are left to die.
Nazi is very cruel because this organization led by Adolf Hitler had caused more than One million jews into death. A single man led to the destruction of one million people. When i think about this i remember from the Bible passage that When Pilate was washing his hand that he is not related to killing Jesus, Jews prophet said, "Then we and our descendent will get the punishment!" It seems that punishment came to reality and I sometimes wonder, If God planned that massacre to happen or if it was just a coincidence.
Maybe Hitler made Jews an enemy not because the jews were always successful in business and rich, but also they were the murderer of Jesus Christ. I don't know if Hitler was a Christian, but i heard from someone that Christians didn't like jews because Jews were the cause of Jesus' death.
After the camp was over, some survivors lived to tell the tale. Auschwitz concentration camp was the most horrible place that these survivors could ever go. There was not sympathy in those camps and men, women, and children were harassed, torutred, raped, experimented, and killed.
Thursday, 25 January 2007
pEaCe ChIlD
Questions
What is faith?
What does God expect us to do for other cultures and faiths?
God sends missionaries all over the world to the uncivilized and cannibalistic people. He wants them to evangelize as many people who does not know the existence of God and convert them. As a Christian, I should also try to get together with God in spirit and with the words, spread God's word to other people. It would be great if i could convert one person into christianity, just like mr. Don Richardson converted many sawi people.
How does Faith relate to the world in which we live?
Faith is something that people have on their belief. In this world has many countries and each countries hold different kinds of world views and beliefs. The people have faith in their religion. Even small tribes of cannibals have their belief and traditions or culture. The faith relate to the world we live in because every people have their beliefs about something.
What should we do when we are confronted with other cultures?
First, we should observe the culture of people and respect it. The countries' or tribes culture is very precious and important for those people who respect the culture. Don Richardson first observed the culture of the Sawi and gradually, after the problems and conflict happened , he slowly taught some of the Sawi's culture and traditions were wrong, like giving the Peace CHild, and as he introduced the story of Jesus and his sacrifice to save all people from sin. So if i were a missionary, i would first listen and observe if the culture of one's belief is good or bad, and fix some of the traditions by introducing the christianity.
What should we do?
What should society do for "uncivilized cultures" like the sawi?
Since the world is growing and technology is advancing, the uncivilized tribes should also get a new life and meet new ages to survive. Missionaries are there to fix the tribes' belief into christianity and teach the uncivilized societies how to live in comfort. Therefore people all over the world could support the uncivilized groups by donating money to the organization who supports the native tribes.
What does Jesus want us to do for the sawi?
As I probably mentioned before, Jesus wants his followers, any christians, missionaries, or etc to evangelize the word of God because Jesus loves everybody. All humans are equal therefore even uncivilized sawi got the chance to be converted.
What do mission organisations do for these people?
Mission organisations basically help the poor or uncivilized cultural tribes. No matter how hard or will take long to understand the tribes' language and speak them, missionaries hang around with the tribes in a small cottage and heal the sick, give advice to the people who had done bad crimes, and gather groups of people to share a gospel.
Who or what is Peace Child to me?
How different is your modern culture from the sawi tenents?
The culture of mine or my country is very different from the old sawi tenents. In the sawi tenents, there are some rules that are so barbaric. They had such law like practicing cannibalism, using the waness bind on people, and gross custom of touching dead family member's corpses called gefam ason. Overall, the sawi tenents usually include cruel and merciless laws, however in our modern cultures, there are no cannibalism or no touching corpses. There could be something similar to the waness bind like setting traps on one person to order them to do what benefits the user of the waness bind. One of the basic difference of my country's culture or other countries like china, america, japan, or etc is that there is no polygamy going on. THe sawi had several wives and most of them were from killing their old husbands and winning them over. The polygamy was one of the practice that probably happened in every countries' ancient century, however the world is now so civilized that only monogamy stays in place. The country or tribes who practice polygamy is probably so uncivilized and because they do not know the other world culture outside.
Also the Christian cultures are opposites to the Sawi tenents. Sawi also had a myth about birds and the reptiles which is about mortality vs immortality. Christian believes that God created the world and since the beginning, Adam and Eve had caused Sin to appear so all of us humans became mortal. Sawi at first enjoyed the story of Judas betraying Jesus because the theme about that story included fattening for the friendships, which is a most common way to kill their friends, or precious companions. Because of this theme, sawis cannot trust fully each other. However, Christians believes betraying is the worst thing one can do especially to Jesus.
The last difference and the major one of the old Sawi tenents and Christian culture is that Sawi used the term peace child which is used to make agreement, deal, or peace treaty with other tribes. Peace child are taken care of real sacred to the other tribes because once the peace child is dead, the treaty will be broken. Peace child is given by his or her father and mother. This is sort of similar to God being father and Jesus being his son and Jesus was the 'peace child' to the people in every world. Jesus was a major enormous peace child which forgave people's sin and counted for all the people not just the israelites, all the people in the world. Overall, Peace child in Sawi culture is small and Peace Child in Christian culture is huge.
Must Do Question
Choose a representative passage from this novel that holds particular significence to you. Type it in and comment on its significance.
"We smiled at each other, misty-eyed and weary, yet suddenly overflowing with joy. An audible voice could not have made the message clearer. God had heard our prayer." Pg 213
This passage usually appears in many different phrases in the book. Everything Mr. Don Richardson prays to God comes to an answer. When he was rescuing his family in the crocodile infested river, he prayed to God for his family to be safe and God answered to his prayer and by the time MR. Richardson had rescued his family members, all of them were safe and sound. In this phrase, Don and carol was praying to God and reading the bible to hope for a miracle to Warahai, who suffered almost to death. They prayed for him to rise in feet again and God answered the prayer. The next day Warahai rose from the 'dead' and the miracle thad Don Richardson and Carol hoped, happened.
It seems that God answers his servants prayer very quickly and the servant needs it hurriedly. Whenever Don prayed for an answer, the answer came so soon. My point is that Whenever i pray to God, I hope he answers fast just like he did to Mr. Richardson. Although when i pray, it is not always about the other people, some prayers are mostly about me. Even though it is mostly about me, i still hope that God answers my prayer, only when i am in need of help desperately.
IF you are going to post, focus on one question and comment about it.
What is faith?
What does God expect us to do for other cultures and faiths?
God sends missionaries all over the world to the uncivilized and cannibalistic people. He wants them to evangelize as many people who does not know the existence of God and convert them. As a Christian, I should also try to get together with God in spirit and with the words, spread God's word to other people. It would be great if i could convert one person into christianity, just like mr. Don Richardson converted many sawi people.
How does Faith relate to the world in which we live?
Faith is something that people have on their belief. In this world has many countries and each countries hold different kinds of world views and beliefs. The people have faith in their religion. Even small tribes of cannibals have their belief and traditions or culture. The faith relate to the world we live in because every people have their beliefs about something.
What should we do when we are confronted with other cultures?
First, we should observe the culture of people and respect it. The countries' or tribes culture is very precious and important for those people who respect the culture. Don Richardson first observed the culture of the Sawi and gradually, after the problems and conflict happened , he slowly taught some of the Sawi's culture and traditions were wrong, like giving the Peace CHild, and as he introduced the story of Jesus and his sacrifice to save all people from sin. So if i were a missionary, i would first listen and observe if the culture of one's belief is good or bad, and fix some of the traditions by introducing the christianity.
What should we do?
What should society do for "uncivilized cultures" like the sawi?
Since the world is growing and technology is advancing, the uncivilized tribes should also get a new life and meet new ages to survive. Missionaries are there to fix the tribes' belief into christianity and teach the uncivilized societies how to live in comfort. Therefore people all over the world could support the uncivilized groups by donating money to the organization who supports the native tribes.
What does Jesus want us to do for the sawi?
As I probably mentioned before, Jesus wants his followers, any christians, missionaries, or etc to evangelize the word of God because Jesus loves everybody. All humans are equal therefore even uncivilized sawi got the chance to be converted.
What do mission organisations do for these people?
Mission organisations basically help the poor or uncivilized cultural tribes. No matter how hard or will take long to understand the tribes' language and speak them, missionaries hang around with the tribes in a small cottage and heal the sick, give advice to the people who had done bad crimes, and gather groups of people to share a gospel.
Who or what is Peace Child to me?
How different is your modern culture from the sawi tenents?
The culture of mine or my country is very different from the old sawi tenents. In the sawi tenents, there are some rules that are so barbaric. They had such law like practicing cannibalism, using the waness bind on people, and gross custom of touching dead family member's corpses called gefam ason. Overall, the sawi tenents usually include cruel and merciless laws, however in our modern cultures, there are no cannibalism or no touching corpses. There could be something similar to the waness bind like setting traps on one person to order them to do what benefits the user of the waness bind. One of the basic difference of my country's culture or other countries like china, america, japan, or etc is that there is no polygamy going on. THe sawi had several wives and most of them were from killing their old husbands and winning them over. The polygamy was one of the practice that probably happened in every countries' ancient century, however the world is now so civilized that only monogamy stays in place. The country or tribes who practice polygamy is probably so uncivilized and because they do not know the other world culture outside.
Also the Christian cultures are opposites to the Sawi tenents. Sawi also had a myth about birds and the reptiles which is about mortality vs immortality. Christian believes that God created the world and since the beginning, Adam and Eve had caused Sin to appear so all of us humans became mortal. Sawi at first enjoyed the story of Judas betraying Jesus because the theme about that story included fattening for the friendships, which is a most common way to kill their friends, or precious companions. Because of this theme, sawis cannot trust fully each other. However, Christians believes betraying is the worst thing one can do especially to Jesus.
The last difference and the major one of the old Sawi tenents and Christian culture is that Sawi used the term peace child which is used to make agreement, deal, or peace treaty with other tribes. Peace child are taken care of real sacred to the other tribes because once the peace child is dead, the treaty will be broken. Peace child is given by his or her father and mother. This is sort of similar to God being father and Jesus being his son and Jesus was the 'peace child' to the people in every world. Jesus was a major enormous peace child which forgave people's sin and counted for all the people not just the israelites, all the people in the world. Overall, Peace child in Sawi culture is small and Peace Child in Christian culture is huge.
Must Do Question
Choose a representative passage from this novel that holds particular significence to you. Type it in and comment on its significance.
This passage usually appears in many different phrases in the book. Everything Mr. Don Richardson prays to God comes to an answer. When he was rescuing his family in the crocodile infested river, he prayed to God for his family to be safe and God answered to his prayer and by the time MR. Richardson had rescued his family members, all of them were safe and sound. In this phrase, Don and carol was praying to God and reading the bible to hope for a miracle to Warahai, who suffered almost to death. They prayed for him to rise in feet again and God answered the prayer. The next day Warahai rose from the 'dead' and the miracle thad Don Richardson and Carol hoped, happened.
It seems that God answers his servants prayer very quickly and the servant needs it hurriedly. Whenever Don prayed for an answer, the answer came so soon. My point is that Whenever i pray to God, I hope he answers fast just like he did to Mr. Richardson. Although when i pray, it is not always about the other people, some prayers are mostly about me. Even though it is mostly about me, i still hope that God answers my prayer, only when i am in need of help desperately.
IF you are going to post, focus on one question and comment about it.
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