1.04 Personal Narrative

My mom stops suddenly and yells, “Run!” Then we see a cracks behind us getting bigger and bigger. We start to run as fast as we can, Zor and I have to get Aiden out of there. We can not let him die. As I look back I see people falling and dying, this is nothing I have never experienced and I hope it will be the last experience. Aiden says as he pulls away from us, “Go, I am only slowing you down.” He collapses to the ground and I stand back, he falls through.

The men above were hurling shovelfuls of magazines into the dusty air. They fell like slaughtered birds and the woman stood below, like a small girl, among the bodies. Montag had done nothing. His hand had done it all, his hand,

At one night, the Germans broke into one of the Jews house and started to yell at them to stand up. As Wladyslaw’s family were watching, the Jews went to the old man sitting on the wheelchair and pushed him off the balcony, and Wladyslaw’s mom yelled in fear. The day the Jews were getting deported, everyone was getting sent to the trains but Wladyslaw was pulled and thrown off to the side and was asked to run. Him and his father were worried because they didn’t know what to do. As the train deported,Wladyslaw was left behind.

They followed his book, he read his book when he was only fifteen. Izaak had influenced his parents life to which they always had non stop debates and because of Walton he kept notebooks on how and when he caught fish. He says,” I had for years kept notebooks- many volumes of precise accounts of when, where, and how I caught every fish. I might employ the same system of note taking to this God character. I titled these records the God notebooks” (Duncan 39).

I hope you get to the corner store where I killed your wife and kidnapped your daughter as soon as you can so you can be here to see this.” The phone houngan up. Harold dropped the phone and ran to the store where is wife was found. Harold came around the corner and seen his ex girlfriend holding his daughter Rayne. Harold asked “Tammy Lynn why? Why would you do this to me?” Tammy Lynn responded”You never loved me liked you loved your wife.” Harold got really close to Tammy Lynn, then reached for his daughter.

I use all my force to hit her in the back of the head. Abigail falls to the ground and she doesn't move I see blood and I panic. I feel for a heartbeat and and cannot find one I just killed Abigail williams. The only thing left to do is escape before somebody finds her. I hurry back to my cabin and wait for Paris to leave and when he does I go through the window and take the money.

He chased our canter all the way out of his village and I waved and cried until he was out of sight. I never knew his name but his face is ever burned in my heart. I had been living selfishly, constantly consumed with myself. Hypocrisy was common to me, because I lived it every day, but that day changed my

You can see that Vladek’s story contains a lot of personal details when he tells Art, “I can tell you other stories, but such private things, I don 't want you should mention.” This gives the reader a sense of reality to the whole story making the Holocaust feel more like a real thing. The character Vladek is very self-centered and rarely thinks of others. He burns Artie’s mom’s wartime memories despite the fact that she specifically wrote that she wishes Art can read them, he throws out Art’s coat just because he thought that the coat was ugly; “When you were sitting first down to dinner, I threw it

If only I could get rid of this dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my own survival, and only worry about myself,’ I immediately felt ashamed of myself, ashamed forever,” (Wiesel, 111). This is just one example of the internal conflict going on endlessly within himself. When thinking of family, there are good times and bad times. When experiencing the moments that are extremely difficult for Elie and his father, he often thinks how great life would be if he could just get rid of his father’s dead weight. One evening when Elie’s father is very ill, the had of the block approaches Elie and tells him, “‘Don’t forget your in a concentration camp.

In John Simkin’s article, Hitler’s father is described as “a stern, distant, aggressive, and violent father” (Simkin). Studies show that Hitler’s father regularly beat him, sparking a hatred inside of him that only expanded. Hitler wrote about his father beating on numerous occasions. He once wrote about an encounter with his father, “‘After one day in Karl May that let the brave man give no sign of being in pain, I made up my mind not to let out any sound next time I was beaten...I counted every blow’… Afterwards he proudly told his mother: ‘Father hit me thirty-two times...and I did not cry’” (Simkin). Slowly, the beatings and abusiveness began making Hitler resent his father.

Oscar Hartzell stated that he met con-artists and they told him of the shared fortune of Sir Francis Drake (Nash). He was born to a poor farmer and when his mother died and he inherited $6000 he quickly looked for a way to make that more (Nash). When it had been discovered that he had created a fake name for a brother of Sir Francis Drake and tried to claim money from it ( Nash). When the prosecutor came up to give a statement he states that everyone in the jury knows that every defendant’s representation is fake even the judge begged them to stop lying because it was all beginning to pile up on them ( Nath; “21”). The judge followed by stating, “Go to your homes and along the highways and byways and tell them (contributors to the estate fund) that the court has judicially found that there is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow," he wanted to tell them this was not going to end the way they had wanted it to, but they persisted yet and many were convicted of mail fraud ( Nash; “21”).

Solomon Radasky was born in Warsaw, Poland, on May 17, 1910. He worked in the Praga district of Warsaw with the family business of making fur coats. He had 2 brothers, 3 sisters, and a mother and father who lived in the same area as Solomon. He remembers that whenever a Jewish holiday came in his town, the stores closed for the day and everyone celebrated the Jewish holiday. In his early 30’s, the Nazis began to force many Jewish families, along with the Radasky family, into the newly established ghettos.