Hard times bring good memories

In the hard times of World War 2 in Molching, Germany, beauty is found. Friendships are created, and so are relationships. In The book Thief by Markus Zusak, he proves that the mourning of the sunset disappearing brings out the stars.

When you’re going through a hard time, and it’s very hard to stay positive, you have to get up and make action. You may not find beauty in brutality, but only see the ugly. During the Holocaust many jews weren’t lucky, also depressed. But Hitler made the Jewish people that way, he wanted all of the Jews dead. Hitler was a dictator, and he made the most unreasonable decisions. They were killed, and they had nothing to do about it. The jews in the concentration camps didn’t really look forward to anything, they knew that they would be killed soon. Therefore leaving the jews helpless, and not wanting to do anything but think negatively. Most Jews didn’t have hope. In the novel The Book Thief there was a jewish young adult in hiding named Max. He was hiding in the Hubermann’s basement, and he had hope from the positive things. Those positive things were eating actual food, having a bed to sleep in, and the friendships of Liesel, Hans, and Liesel. Those little things got him through the day and he was able to keep strength to keep going. When you look on the bright side of the bad, and worship the little things, you will receive the beauty in brutality.

It is very hard to get up off of your feet when you’ve been laying there for awhile. Many people become depressed during hard times, such as family deaths. Death has been made for everyone, and you cannot get out of it. When my grandfather was dying a couple months ago, it brought everyone together. I remember everyone mourning, desperate to get him out of the pain. He was on hospice, and my family was just begging either for him to just wake up, or to just pass in peace. My grandpa was on hospice for two weeks before his cancer finally hit his body, then his body finally let go. He lived a very long life, and was proud of his accomplishments. Yes, my family will become sad when there’s a family party, and he’s not sitting in his favorite chair, but death happens. Throughout this experience I met new family that I’ve never even heard of. I met many great aunts and uncles that live far away. Within need everyone found comfort with each other. If one was crying, everyone else would. It literally was the first time my dad cried infront of me. He just kept saying over and over “I just wish he would go so he doesn’t have to sit through the pain” They visited before he passed, just talking to him. My Family is the type to make jokes when it’s quiet and awkward. Throughout the hard times, you know who loves you the most by them being on your bedside.

In October of 2013, a hurricane hit the Philippines. It has brought many countries together to help them. The United States has helped them by donating 20 million dollars. Sometimes it’s the hard times that help out the actual cause. During the Halocaust the Jew’s never ate; the Nazi’s wanted them to suffer. Hans Hubermann, Liesel’s foster father, had seen an old man struggling. They were all walking to a camp, and the old man had kept collapsing from lack of nutrition. Without thinking, Hans had gotten up and given him some bread. With that being said, the Nazi soldier had seen him. Hans got whipped, also the jew for taking the bread. He was called a jew lover by everyone in Molching, but it was all worth it to him. The look he saw on the jew’s face was hope. He had given him hope to never stop trying. He needed that little thing to know that someone actually cared. Therefore that one jew, had found beauty in brutality. “Now I think we are friends, this girl and me. On her birthday it was she who gave a gift to me.” (The Standover Man)

During the hardest times humans are usually themselves, and don’t hold anything back. Usually when you’re yourself you show emotion, and when you don’t hold anything back you kinda feel like nothing, you feel like just lying there for awhile. They’re in too much pain to be happy. When you are in pain, you have to look on the bright side of things or you will stay depressed. You have to not so expect the beauty, but just let it happen. Time will always heal your past. There is beauty and although it takes the hardest times to bring it out, it’s worth it. Many characters throughout the novel The Book Thief had proved to Death that they found beauty in brutality.